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Genius Hack for Your Drinks

We all know that ice dilutes cocktails, waters them down and changes the taste, so having a solution to this problem is epic. While we have in past come across fruit and fruit purees frozen into cocktails, its ingenius to

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Learn to make a “Death in the Afternoon” cocktail

You may be surprised to learn that Ernest Hemingway wasn’t just a brilliant author but a cocktail creator as well. The author knew his spirits well and so created the Death in the Afternoon cocktail whilst holidaying in Florida’s Key

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Video: Top 5 Best Bar Tricks

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Here’s How to Mix a Vodka Martini

Everyone thinks they know how to make this drink but in this Masterclass video you’ll learn the right way to make this old classic. You don’t need to be James Bond to appreciate this one!

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Genius Ways to Open a Beer without a Bottleopener

Here are a few cool ways to open a beer bottle without a bottleopener. 1.Keys 2. Use another beer. Flip one bottle upside down and use the ridge of its cap to pull of the cap of the other bottle. 3.

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Why Isn’t Beer Sold In Plastic Bottles

Why are cans and bottles used for beer and not plastic?  Plastic is definately more convenient, cheaper and recyclable, so why isn’t it used more? In The UK, beer is actually stored in plastic bottles, for environmental as well as

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Why We Talk The Way We Do

Public speaking expert Victoria University, Dean Frankel says claims that the Australian access sounds slurred because our forefathers were drunk all the time but an expert from University of Queensland Dr Rob Pensalfini says these claims are untrue and dismissed them as “absolute

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Lovejoy Comet Has Alcohol

Scientists researching the Lovejoy Comet using a 30-metre long telescope at the Institut de Radioastronomie Millimetrique in Sierra Nevada, Spain in January 2015, identified sugar molecules and ethyl alcohol on the comet.  The complex organic molecules or building blocks of like

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Two Australian bars make the top 10 of the World’s 50 Best Bar list

Two of Australia’s leading bars have made it onto the World’s 50 Best Bars list, and they’ve not just made it onto the list, but they made it into the top 10. The 2 impressive establishments are Sydney’s the Baxter’s

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Fridge Tells You when You’re Out of Beer

Bud Light’s new fridge is so ingenious it can tell you when you’re out of beer. The Wi-Fi-enabled fridge will provide real-time updates on the status of your beer supply to your mobile phone so you can make a quick

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