I just read some pretty bad news from RumDood.  Short version is that the cable channel responsible for “Three Sheets“, one of our favorite shows about drinking, is shutting down.  But there’s a chance for “Three Sheets” to survive: SpikeTV.  They’re being kind of slow about it apparently, so action needs to be taken to let them know we want them to pick up the show.  Email SpikeTV and beg ask them to pick up “Three Sheets” and keep Zane on the air. 

The longer version: I love this show.  It’s funny, pro-booze, informative and entertaining.  If you’ve never watched it, go over to Hulu where they’ve got every full episode for free available for your viewing enjoyment.  It’s great, right?  The host, Zane Lamprey, gets to travel all over the planet and gets to try everything out there, from super-swanky tastings with master distillers and brewers to down-and-dirty drinking with locals in dive bars.  He’s good at it, so good that we named him one of our illustrious Champions of Drinking (mostly out of my painfully obvious envy of him and his job).  We also listed the show as one of the Top Five Booziest of the Past Five Years.

So if you’ve got a minute, give SpikeTV a holler and help keep good boozing TV on the air.

Thanks for the tip RumDood!

Well whaddya know, I got interviewed!  I got asked some questions by Michael over at My Aching Head about my drinking habits and food and wine and whathaveyou.  Here’s an excerpt!

“I’m actually a White Zinfandel guy.  It’s like…finally, a wine for me, you know?”

Riveting! Want another taste of my words of wisdom?

“Drinking is awesome”

Life changing! So head on over to My Aching Head to read more thrilling and brain-bending things I said in response to questions I was asked!

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Just a quick reminder, tonight in the Mixoloseum Bar we’ll be making drinks with Leblon Cachaça.  It’s not too late to get a bottle and join us!  7pm Eastern, be there!

Details are a little slim, but apparently the Trufill can miraculously fill glasses of beer (10 in 10 seconds) from the bottom.  This not only looks really cool, but will cut labor costs by as much as 80%.

Granted, there’s got to be a huge cost in adapting your bar to this system.  The cost of the device itself, custom hook-ups to your kegs (or possibly having to buy custom kegs), buying multiple kegs to be hooked up at the same time if you want to have more than one dispenser, buying all your glassware over again so they’ll work with the Trufill…you’d really have to be a new bar starting from scratch to not rack up massive debt in investing in the system and make it worth it.  But I could be wrong, they haven’t revealed anything in terms of pricing.  FoodBev promises to update us with a video next week of the thing in action, so perhaps more info will be dispensed then.

Looks pretty nifty though.

FoodBev ::via:: Boing Boing Gadgets

So the story goes like this: There’s this list going around that some famous food guy put out called the Omnivores 100, a list of 100 things every eater should try in their lifetime.  Good and bad, boring and thrilling, it’s simply 100 things worth trying at some point in your life.  So Darcy over at The Art of Drink, a qualified person if there ever was one, has devised the Imbibers One Hundred, a list of 100 drinks you should try, alcoholic and not, over the course of your lifetime. So I’m posting the list below, and the instructions should you want to play along at home.

Instructions:

1) Copy this list into your blog, with instructions.
2) Bold all the drinks you’ve imbibed.
3) Cross out any items that you won’t touch
4) Post a comment here and link to your results.

OR

If you don’t have a blog, just count the ones you’ve tried and post the number in the comments section.

List of Drinks You Must Try Before You Expire

1. Manhattan Cocktail
2. Kopi Luwak (Weasle Coffee)
3. French / Swiss Absinthe
4. Root beer
5. Gin Martini
6. Sauternes
7. Whole Milk
8. Tequila (100% Agave)
9. XO Cognac
10. Espresso
11. Spring Water (directly from the spring)
12. Gin & Tonic
13. Mead
14. Westvleteren 12 (Yellow Cap) Trappist Ale
15. Chateau d’Yquem
16. Budwieser
17. Maraschino Liqueur
18. Mojito
19. Orgeat
20. Grand Marnier
21. Mai Tai (original)
22. Ice Wine (Canadian)
23. Red Bull
24. Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice
25. Bubble Tea
26. Tokaji
27. Chicory
28. Islay Scotch
29. Pusser’s Navy Rum
30. Fernet Branca
31. Fresh Pressed Apple Cider
32. Bourbon
33. Australian Shiraz
34. Buckley’s Cough Syrup
35. Orange Bitters
36. Margarita (classic recipe)
37. Molasses & Milk
38. Chimay Blue
39. Wine of Pines (Tepache)
40. Green Tea
41. Daiginjo Sake
42. Chai Tea
43. Vodka (chilled, straight)
44. Coca-Cola
45. Zombie (Beachcomber recipe)
46. Barley Wine
47. Brewed Choclate (Xocolatl)
48. Pisco Sour
49. Lemonade
50. Speyside Single Malt
51. Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee
52. Champagne (Vintage)
53. Rosé (French)
54. Bellini
55. Caipirinha
56. White Zinfandel (Blush)
57. Coconut Water
58. Cerveza
59. Cafe au Lait
60. Ice Tea
61. Pedro Ximenez Sherry
62. Vintage Port
63. Hot Chocolate
64. German Riesling
65. Pina Colada
66. El Dorado 15 Year Rum
67. Chartreuse
68. Greek Wine
69. Negroni
70. Jägermeister
71. Chicha
72. Guinness
73. Rhum Agricole
74. Palm Wine
75. Soju
76. Ceylon Tea (High Grown)
77. Belgian Lambic
78. Mongolian Airag
79. Doogh, Lassi or Ayran
80. Sugarcane Juice
81. Ramos Gin Fizz
82. Singapore Sling
83. Mint Julep
84. Old Fashioned
85. Perique
86. Jenever (Holland Gin)
87. Chocolate Milkshake
88. Traditional Italian Barolo
89. Pulque
90. Natural Sparkling Water
91. Cuban Rum
92. Asti Spumante
93. Irish Whiskey
94. Château Margaux
95. Two Buck Chuck
96. Screech
97. Akvavit
98. Rye Whisky
99. German Weissbier
100. Daiquiri (classic)

I scored a 54, which kind of makes me sad.  Though there’s nothing that I had to cross out that I wouldn’t ever try, which I’m happy about.  I was a little tempted to cross out the Buckley’s, because I’ve heard it tastes like 12 kinds of hell, but I’m game to try it at least once.  And I think there are some things on the list that I’ve probably had, but the ol’ memory banks ain’t what they used to be, so they remain un-bolded.

So repost on your site (if you have one) and if you don’t, post your results in the comments and put my sad number to shame.

Early warning this week that tomorrow night, 7pm will be the TDN chat where we all sit around and make up drinks and then drink them and get sloshed together.  It’s fun!

This week’s theme is fruit liqueurs.  So everything from Peach schnapps to Midori to Cherry Heering to (heaven forbid) Apple Pucker is fair game.  Actually, it would take some SERIOUS balls (and skillz) to break out the Apple Pucker in that room and come up with a cocktail that most everyone there would agree is good.  I know I couldn’t come up with one.  I’ll give a shiny nickel to anyone who can do it.

Oh, and double-heads-up…in two weeks, on the 20th, we’re going to be having a very special night featuring Leblon Cachaça.  Cachaça, if you didn’t know, is the spirit used in caipirinhas, a delicious drink you’ve probably had if you’ve ever been to a Brazillian steakhouse like Fogo de Chão.  But that night we’re going to see what else we can do with cachaça, how we can maybe put a new twist on the caipirinha, and what it’s all about.  I’m warning you about it ahead of time so you can make sure and get a bottle of Leblon so you can join in the fun with us.

So I posted a link in our Obligitory Halloween Post to a person who’d made a beer pong costume.  Well apparently, one of our readers thought it was such a good idea he made one for himself, going so far as to slap a big beautiful “DRINKPLANNER” all over it.

It’s a thing of beauty.  I even like how he went all the way to the Sears Portrait Center* to get it done on a backdrop and everything.  Now his mom will have something to put in the Christmas cards this year!  Thanks for sending it in!

* “*squeek* *squeek* Look over here!  Over here!  Now say ‘giiiiiiiiiiiin!’”

Amirite?

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I apologize for the light posting this week, I’ll get back to regularly scheduled programming soon enough.  Just wanted to remind you guys that tonight is Thursday Drink Night at the Mixoloseum, and the theme is gin.  The stipulation?  Pick up a bottle of gin that you’ve never tried before.  Should be a good time, last week’s chat yielded a crapload of cocktails.  Starts at 7pm (*UPDATE* I should have mentioned, that’s Eastern time).

Oh, and shout-out to reader morris, who I chatted with for a minute after I showed up woefully late.  If anyone showed up earlier, I’m sorry I missed ya.  Thanks for stopping by!

The kind people at Booze Belly were nice enough to send me a review “belly”.  It’s pretty much what it sounds like, and while we’ve talked about products to help you drink on the hush-hush before, it’s been sitting here for a few weeks now because sadly I’ve not yet had a chance to use it and review it.

I know what you’re thinking, “DrinkPlanner please, you’re trying to tell me YOU haven’t been in a situation where you could use the Booze Belly?  I find that to be unbelievable*”.  I hear you, and I don’t know what else to say other than it’s the truth.  Every place I’ve been recently the booze has been flowing and cheap.  I suppose I could, for the sake of science, wear it around the house to test it and review…but I think you’ll agree that seems a bit silly.

So just letting you know that a full-on field test will be forthcoming, from what I can tell it looks like a pretty solid product, and I’m definitely looking forward to using it (hopefully) sometime soon.

*”…and by that, I mean I am unable to believe it”