This should not be news to anyone, but earlier this year Haiti experienced one of the worst natural disasters in the modern Western Hemisphere — a massive earthquake that killed over 100,00 people, devastated the entire country and completely destroyed its capital, Port-Au-Prince.
The subject of Haiti hits VERY close to home at Mutineer Magazine. One of our very own editors, Brian Kropf, is currently stationed with the U.S. Army in Haiti.
The mass destruction in Haiti in combination with having a really good friend stationed there got me thinking about the beverage culture on the island. Does Haiti have a beverage culture? And if so, what does it look like? Continue Reading »
Wine and beer folks are always trying to one up each other about their respective beverage’s health effects. Wine folks have volumes of research backing them up. They even have supplements like resveratrol that are derived from red wine grapes. Beer guys sometimes go out on a limb regarding health benefits (It makes you look cool…which boosts your self esteem…which contributes to your mental health…right?).
Well the suds soldiers finally have a legit arrow in their quiver. A study by brew friendly school, UC Davis, finds that beer has silicon in it which contributes to bone mineral density.
Yup, drinking beer can toughen up your bones and you don’t even have to hit your shins with a baseball bat like Muay Thai fighters. I’m really happy to know this because with all the beer I drink, I may have a super-skeleton like Wolverine. I wonder if I keep up my beer consumption if one day I’ll get a bottle opener that will retract into my hand. One can only dream…
Wow…is it Tuesday already? We didn’t post a blog yesterday in observance of Columbus Day and the Canadian Thanksgiving (out of respect to our fine Canadian readers). Deadline has reared its ugly head once again in the world of the Mutineer, and the sleep deprivation has filled us with madness that lured us into an early morning drinking session today that featured Crystal Head Vodka and Gatorade (fruit punch), which led to some unanticipated yet completely predictable madness of its own, and eventually to “How many shots in a 750 ml liquor bottle” in Yahoo! Answers. Yes…deadline turns us into beasts. (The issue is at the printer and it is KILLER.)
So how many shots are in a 750 ml liquor bottle?
Depends on how big your shots are. 1 oz. – 2 oz. is common.
As found in the Urban Dictionary, Energyology officially means “A term coined by energy drink expert Jeff Dorenbush, who invented the discipline of energyology, or the study of energy drinks.”
To use in a sentence, “My name is Jeff Dorenbush, and I’m a black belt in energyology.”
The definition was officially added to the Urban Dictionary on September 4, 2008, and has become a go-to term in the world of the Mutineer. Issue Four featured the first Energyology feature about the ingredients and nutritional differences between different popular energy drinks. Stay tuned for more great Energyology content to come…
In an article by Kate Stinchfield on CNN.com, “A new study shows that white wine has an acid content that tends to increase the risk of dark dental stains if you also drink tea or similar beverages. New York University researchers compared the staining effects of red and white wine by submerging cow teeth in wine for one hour — the same effect as sipping a couple of glasses of wine over the course of a leisurely dinner… Compared to water, the acidity of the white wine left teeth more susceptible to the tea stains. While white wine was still better than red wine in terms of subsequent tooth staining, if you drink any shade of vino you seem to be more vulnerable to staining by so-called chromogens — substances in tea and other food that discolor teeth.” Continue Reading »
If you had a time machine, and you traveled the Neolithic settlement of Skara Brae in Scotland, you would likely enter a world that invented psychedelia approx. 5,000 years before the Beatles, Pink Floyd, and Jefferson Airplane. According to Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol by Iain Gately: Continue Reading »
For anyone that is unsure about beverage new media, news flash: IT’S HAPPENING. To not realize this, you are depriving yourself of what is the most important and exciting development in wine since the invention of the glass wine bottle. Continue Reading »
