This may come as a surprise to some, but it’s illegal to get drunk in an English pub. A law from 1872, leftover from the temperance movement, still stands today. But what exactly was it trying to achieve? Food and Wine tells more: https://flip.it/rKY4Nc #Culture#UK#Drinking#Alcohol#Pubs#Bars
After enduring the travails of air travel — stressing in the security line, praying there’s enough space in the overhead bin, weather delays, baggage fees, all of it — sometimes it’s nice to enjoy a cold one. Some airlines know this and are offering specially crafted beers during the in-flight beverage service. Food & Wine has more on this new meaning of “tasting flights.” https://flip.it/MguYCI #Culture#Travel#Beer#AirTravel#Drinking
British comedian Michael McIntyre has a bit in which he claims that any English word can be used to describe being drunk. Now, two German linguists have tested the claim. "It is highly surprising that drunkonyms are still under-researched from a linguistic perspective," the authors wrote in their new paper, which was published in the Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association. @arstechnica's @JenLucPiquant has the TL;DR.
The original research paper lists 546 synonyms for drunkenness. We want to know which of these four did NOT appear.
Today I'm #Drinking#Pisco. I love it. Cheaper than french brandy, and better. It's a relatively cheap spirit that's nice neat, amazing as a sour, and mixes well with hot chocolate. Lots of light raisen notes.
There's a proper way to taste wine, and it doesn't involve waxing lyrical about the obscure notes you identify in the liquid. Here's a breakdown from Food & Wine of how to swirl, sniff, slurp and — if necessary — spit your way to appreciating fermented grape juice. How do you feel about wine?
Apparently people who are drinking moderately this month are labeling it "Damp January." Eater's Jaya Saxena is disgusted. "The word you use to describe a towel that is four hours away from growing mold after being abandoned on the bathroom floor? The word of used bathing suits and jean hems dragged through puddles?" she asks. What do you think of the term? Tell us in the comments if you've heard a better one.
"Engineers designed a solar #desalination system that passively turns seawater into drinking water. It circulates water in swirling eddies which drives water to evaporate and leave salt behind. The resulting water vapor can be condensed and collected while the leftover salt circulates out of the device.
A small suitcase-sized system could produce up to 6 litres of #drinking#water per hour and last several years."