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Xopher Reed Strange Brews: The Boilermaker

Posted by Xopher Reed On February - 6 - 2010   ZERO COMMENTS | 16 views

Huh, I had no idea where the term boilermaker came from until googling this drink this evening. Damn, I guess you work hard enough, you get a drink named after you.

Got beer? Got whiskey? Want to drink both at the same time without having to double fist it? Well you’re in luck because this week’s Strange Brews allows you to do just that.

Nik Mortimer Strange Brews: The Zombie

Posted by Nik Mortimer On June - 27 - 2009   ZERO COMMENTS | 25 views
Seeing as it’s the Summer of the Dead here at Media Whore Network I thought we should dedicate this weeks strange brew to the Zombie.  The cocktail was originally created by Donn Beach in the mid 1930s.  It was named ‘The Zombie’ after a friend of Beach’s drank two and then complained about how he felt like a zombie after drinking them.  The cocktail that tastes so fruity it actually disguises it’s high alcohol content and can people drunk before they have even realised they’ve had a drink.  Today many of the establishments that make the zombie will only serve two per customer to try and stop them becoming drunk in short space of time.  Hit the jump to find out how to create this awesomely potent cocktail.
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Ingredients:
1 measure dark rum
1 measure white rum
½ measure apricot brandy
2 measures pineapple juice
½ measure lime juice
2 teaspoons powdered sugar
Garnish: cocktail cherry and pineapple wedge
To make the cocktail simply add all of the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice and shake well, pour the contents into a high glass.  Garnish the top of the cocktail with the cherry and pineapple wedge, either on a cocktail stick or sliced and attached onto the side of the glass.  If you really want to give the cocktail an extra kick then top the glass of with more rum if desired and if your feeling fancy, light the cocktail for added effect. Once your happy with the result add a straw and enjoy.

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Seeing as it’s the Summer of the Dead here at Media Whore Network I thought we should dedicate this weeks strange brew to one of my favorite cocktails, the Zombie.  The cocktail was originally created by Donn Beach in the mid 1930s.  It was named ‘The Zombie’ after a friend of Beach’s drank two of the cocktails then complained about how he felt like a zombie after drinking them.  The cocktail that tastes so fruity it actually disguises it’s high alcohol content and can get people drunk before they have felt they’ve had a drink.  Today many of the establishments that make the zombie will only serve two per customer to try and stop them becoming too drunk in short space of time.  Hit the jump to find out how to create this awesomely potent cocktail.

Pepsi Throwback & Mountain Dew Throwback

To call the Throwback line new would be a bit misleading. The ingredients used in Pepsi and Mountain Dew Throwback almost exactly match their normal counterpart…well, except for one thing.

Throwback uses REAL SUGAR

Xopher Reed Strange Brews: The Evil Dead

Posted by Xopher Reed On March - 28 - 2009   ZERO COMMENTS | 7 views

Much like this guy caught a shotgun to the face, you are cautioned to take it easy with these and for the love of Crom, don't light the motherfuckers on fire, please? The last thing I need is a potential lawsuit.

My hero, Bruce Campbell in his career defining role as Ash in Sam Raimi’s third installment of the Evil Dead series (better known as Army of Darkness) said this to his love-interest Shiela: “Don’t touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn’t understand alloys and compositions and things with… molecular structures.”

This is my exact warning to you, don’t touch this recipe unless you understand what the fuck you’re doing.

I’m serious, this shot can potentially kill/maim you in one of 2 apparent ways, either somehow you or your property catches fire and hilarity ensues, or you underestimate how much liquor is in these drinks and proceed to have one to many. So with all warnings aside I’ll share the recipe and how to make the bastards.

Xopher Reed Terrible Beer is an Awesome Oxymoron

Posted by Xopher Reed On March - 25 - 2009   2 COMMENTS | 35 views

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This last weekend I decided while at the state-run liquor store (the only places in this kooky state where you can get anything stronger than 3.2%) to pick up a new type of beer each week until I have developed more of a pallate for the world’s most awesome frothy drink. You see, for the most part I tend to stick to beers that are high on hops or are stouts. I, for the life of me, can’t understand how people enjoy drinking Blue Moon all the time.

This week’s brew comes all the way from Canananadada and is made by a brewer called Unibroue located in Quebec and has the unfortunate yet awesome name “Le Terrible” or as it appeared on the bottle I had, it was just listed as “Terrible”.

Xopher Reed Strange Brews: Die Führerbunker

Posted by Xopher Reed On March - 21 - 2009   ZERO COMMENTS | 9 views

DUN DUN DUUUUUUUN!

Going off of the recipe for a Dead Nazi (cause we only know that the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi), this was suggested to me by a friend to signify all of the death that occurred in the Nazi party’s last hold out at the Führerbunker. You see kids, when WW2 was drawing to a close in the European front, Adolf, his wife Eva, The Goebbels (all 8 of ‘em including six children) committed suicide to avoid the horror that would come from being taken by the Russians.

Xopher Reed Strange Brews: The Dirty Martini

Posted by Xopher Reed On March - 14 - 2009   ZERO COMMENTS | 73 views

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It’s been quite the long time since anyone here at MWN has decided to put up a drink recipe, this all changes today as I re-implement our regular feature ‘Strange Brews’ where we try out drink recipes we learn and share them with you, our loving audience.

So, let’s get started shall we?

The dirty martini has possibly the strangest ingredient added that gives it so much flavor, in fact it gets its name from the fact that you use the leftover briny suspension liquid from a canister of green olives (you know the stuff you usually throw away once the olives are eaten). What makes it dirty is that you replace quite a bit of vermouth with the olive juice when mixing.

Brad Holman Big Popa’s Weekend Anthem: F*ck the Po-Po

Posted by Brad Holman On January - 23 - 2009   3 COMMENTS | 13 views

I hope all of you are feeling a little TGIF like I am. I’m telling you, four hours of pool and 7 out of 11 victories combined with 7 delicious beers puts me in the mood for more tonight. So here’s a new weekly feature for all you party animals that need something to help ya get going.

The first ever Big Popa Anthem is ‘Fuck the Po Po’ by Corey Smith. I first heard about this guy way back in April of 2008 at a local concert. After hearing his songs about getting head while driving, drinking constantly, wishing he was 21 again and his incredibly moving song about a soldier’s dying wish, I was hooked. I ordered all of his albums off his website for $20 (that’s four albums by the way). Too bad this song wasn’t on any of them because it’s too much fun not to sing to yourself. Enjoy.

Pretty good huh? Also, if you hit the button below, there’s a little surprise bonus song for you. I guarantee you will enjoy it. Have a good weekend all of you!!

Xopher Reed Strange Brews: The Caribou Lou

Posted by Xopher Reed On January - 10 - 2009   6 COMMENTS | 66 views

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No, not the villain from The Inspector cartoons from the 60s but the delicious libation made famous by Tech N9ne on his album Everready. He describes in detail how to make this great drink that sneaks up on you thanks to the 151 rum contained within.

The recipe is very, very simple. No I didn’t copy it straight from the song lyrics (that’s good to make a whole jug of the stuff), but I’ve managed to break it down for you in a glass by glass recipe.

Xopher Reed Prehistoric Beer?!? GIMME!

Posted by Xopher Reed On January - 8 - 2009   1 COMMENT | 16 views

I’d like to think that some caveman, at some point in our evolution was able to discover fermentation. It may not be documented, but I always hold hope that we see a cave painting with human figures with bubbles coming off their head. Well a brewery from California promises even more, a beer made from 45 million year old yeast…did someone say drunken Raptor Jesus? Yes please!

Fossil Fuels Brewing Company found and cultivated a strain of yeast that was hearty enough to survive in the stomach of a bee trapped in hardened amber. Dr. Raul Cano discovered many strains of prehistoric bacteria in multiple locations across the globe and started researching them. He, along with his colleague, Lewis Lambert came to discover that one strain in particular closely resembled our modern beer and bread workhorse Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Xopher Reed Strange Brews: The Jägerbomb

Posted by Xopher Reed On November - 1 - 2008   1 COMMENT | 26 views

We here at MediaWhoreNetwork love promoting an unhealthy lifestyle. Life is just so much more fun when you cut loose sometimes. The best and possibly most sociable activity that does this and causes liver damage and brain cell death all at the same time is drinking.

Drinking is for sure one of the website’s favorite activities as you’ll see in the weeks ahead, so without any further ado, let’s cut the bullshit and get to some drinkin’!

Xopher Reed Strange Brews: Popa’s Panty Poppin’ Punch

Posted by Xopher Reed On October - 18 - 2008   ZERO COMMENTS | 10 views

We love promoting an unhealthy lifestyle, life is just so much more fun when you cut loose sometimes. The best and possibly most sociable activity that does this and causes liver damage and brain cell death all at the same time is drinking. So without any further ado, let’s cut the bullshit and get to some drinkin’!

BigPopaGamer, co-host of The Red-Light Roundtable, and one of the most active bloggers here on MediaWhoreNetwork. I managed to weasel this recipe from him one night for some unspecified cost.

It turns out that BigPopaGamer is a man that has much of the the same interests and tastes as myself. We may not always agree on topics, but hey, variety is the spice of life right?

Tonight, we all get to to know him a little better through his drink recipe he was forced to share with me…check out BigPopaGamer’s articles sometime and get the guy some comments. The man needs all the love you can spare.

Brad Holman Shitty Movie Night #1

Posted by Brad Holman On October - 9 - 2008   ZERO COMMENTS | 29 views

So last weekend my roommate and I decided to host an event that we are terming, “Shitty Movie Night”.  It’s really nothing but an excuse to have friends over, consume too much alcohol (I put down 12 beers that night and could have kept going) and laugh at the horrible movies that some people like to make.  But not to completely fuck people over, we decided to do two shitty movies and one decent movie at the end.  I’m not sure which I heard more, groaning, laughter or crying as people realized that I really do have a talent for picking horrible movies if I want to.

So let’s get into it, shall we?

Ryan Wilson The Great Bacon Exbeeriment

Posted by Ryan Wilson On October - 7 - 2008   1 COMMENT | 30 views

Man has always been sure of two things:
- Beer can make almost anything taste better
- Bacon tastes delicious

So I figured:
WHY NOT TRY BOTH OF THEM TOGETHER?

Thus was born The Great Bacon Exbeeriment

Ryan Wilson Strange Brews: The 9/11

Posted by Ryan Wilson On August - 22 - 2008   ZERO COMMENTS | 16 views

Here it is…the ultimate drink intended to offend.

The 9/11

First, its history. I was not the creator of this drink, that honor goes to a friend of mine, Liam. However, I was one of the firsts to experience it. The drink was created as a response to the Irish Car Bomb, a very tasty drink consisting of a Guinness, Irish cream, and Irish Whiskey. As much as we loved the drink, we knew ordering it at most Irish bars would likely get our asses kicked. So Liam sought out to create the most offensive drink in both taste and American sensitivity. A drink you could never order at a bar. Thus was born the 9/11.

If you aren’t already pissed off at me, read ahead.


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