Mutineer Magazine: Fine Beverage...Redefined

Using Stephen Colbert’s proven process of “gut feeling journalism”, I have uncovered that Japan is developing weapons technology against which the United States will have no defense. The fact that Japan has perfected the Coke robot effectively makes them the world’s leading superpower. 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 »

New York Governor David Paterson wants to impose a 18% sales tax on soda in New York, which he estimates will raise $404 million in the 2009-2010 fiscal year while REDUCING soda sales by 5%.

Once upon time America was a capitalist company, I mean country, and somewhere along the way we started using tax dollars to keep broken corporations in business and taxing products to try and influence consumer buying patterns. This is starting to sound very 1984/Communist/Socialist, and if a Costner-esque post-apocalyptic hero doesn’t rise up soon, I fear what the future has in store. Continue Reading »

I haven’t seen Pepsi Raw available for sale in the United States. As far as I know, it is only being sold in Europe, but I do hope it makes it over here soon. It’s basically everything you love about Pepsi, just with more awesome.

For starters, it is made from all natural ingredients, including cane sugar, apple extract, caramel color…you get the idea. It comes in a super futuristic bottle, and the website has spiffy recipes to point out the full potential of Pepsi Raw.

Consider this, the “Tequila and RAW”: No salt, no lime, just the distinctive taste of Tequila unmasked by Raw’s unique natural flavours. A slow drink to be savoured.

This stuff is for real, I just hope it survives the British gauntlet and makes it over here to the good ol’ US of A.

Sidral Mundet is a delicious beverage from Mexico that is actually available on the West Coast (United States). I first tried this after finding it at a 7-Eleven in Los Angeles, and had it again today at the Philly Cheese Steak café.

This is a curious beverage indeed. It is apple soda that is made in Mexico. The neat thing about Sidral Mundet is that it is made with natural ingredients, including real sugar, instead of the cheaper alternative that is commonly used in the United States, corn syrup. Continue Reading »

I can say with confidence that Crystal Pepsi is one of the main consumer products that defined my childhood (that, Ken Griffey Jr. Crunch Bars, and hypercolor shirts). In my childhood home of Waterville, Washington, summertime temps would get up around 110 degrees, so having a quenching beverage you could rely on was crucial, and at the tender age of ten, this palate was already becoming particular about what it wanted. Continue Reading »

Spirits Mutineer Douglas Harenchar rolled into the office with a two liter bottle of Squirt (that I was subsequently informed that business manager Jeff Dorenbush actually purchased). I haven’t had Squirt in years, and its epic return to my palate has inspired me to dig a little deeper into this magnificent beverage. Continue Reading »

I created this mixture out of boredom and, well… we didn’t really have anything else in the office in the order of cocktail ingredients. We only had Skyy Vanilla Vodka and a party keg of Virgil’s Root Beer. While Wine Mutineer, Alan Kropf, watched in horror, I lifted the experiment to my lips. To my pleasant surprise, the concoction actually was a resounding success. Continue Reading »