Dita Von Teese…doing a strip tease…in a massive glass of absinthe. I’ve had “massive stripper glassware” saved in my eBay searches for some time now, though I’ve had no luck in securing one of my own. I’m determined to get one of these futuristic contraptions into my residence for friends and guests to enjoy as I feel this is my duty as a true beverage professional. Stay tuned…
Back by popular demand, we examine the beverages of LOST. In part one, we examined beer and wine, and now in part two, we examine the harder stuff and the speedier stuff.
Coffee
Nobody can survive without coffee. If you can, I’m convinced you’re a robot. Besides, all those super scientists and scientific experiments had to be fueled by something. I’m guessing there wasn’t a Dharma station called “The Meth Lab”.
Coffee is the only viable “energy drink” from the ’70s (don’t tell resident Energyologist Jeff, his head would explode). A nasty frost in the late ’70s crippled Brazil’s coffee industry, and Papua New Guinea, feeling the heft of its newly found independence from the British, shot to stardom in the coffee industry. Continue Reading »
Yes, it’s Super Bowl beer commercial season, which basically means Bud Light commercials. Here are some classics to back-up the rest of your Super Bowl experience. I’m officially pulling for the Saints. New Orleans has a hell of a beverage culture that would get a big boost from a Saints Super Bowl win. Continue Reading »
We’re all fans of LOST here aboard the Mutineer frigate, so it’s only fitting that we highlight fine beverage references in the show being that the season just kicked off on Tuesday. While the series is rife with fine beverage, I wanted to focus on what is provided by the benevolent Dharma Initiative. Continue Reading »
Math doesn’t lie people, and the equation on this poster says it all: time travel IS possible, you apparently just need to make a cocktail with an energy drink, Crystal Pepsi in a label-less prototype glass bottle, and squirrel juice, then drink the magical elixir in a hot tub to travel back in time to the ’80s when Parker was king and Crystal Pepsi hadn’t happened yet. Wow, think about that one for a second, Crystal Pepsi being on the horizon? It must’ve been awesome when culture still had something to look forward to.
In other news, Mutineer has made it a 2010 goal to be the #1 Google search result for “squirrel”, “squirrel juice”, or “squirrel juice cocktail sends people back to the ’80s”. Stay tuned…
On March 6 the Hallmark Channel will premier “Uncorked”, an original movie that takes everything you love about Hallmark Channel original movies and combines it with wine. Wait, Hallmark has it’s own channel? Continue Reading »
Mutineer Magazine is proud to be sponsoring Wine 2.0 Expo New York for the second year in a row. The event will take place at Webster Hall in New York on November 18th. Tickets available here with the discount code "mutineer" getting you 10% off your ticket!
November 5, 2009
Check out Mutineer Editor Alan Kropf's interview with Carly Milne on Digital City as he dishes on a subject he rarely touches: The best wineries in America. Beware, may include such descriptors as "scary good", "soul rattling" and "phenomenal".