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#Engineering The Soursimply put a Sour is a drink consisting of a base liquor plus a sour component balanced against a sweet component.

A Daiquiri uses rum lime and sugar. A Bee's Knees calls for gin lemon and honey syrup.

A Margarita mixes tequila lime and orange liqueur. The basic formula for a Sour is 2 parts of the base spirit to 1 part of the sweet component and 1 part of the sour component.

For example: Daiquiri 2 parts white rum 1 part simple syrup 1 part fresh lime juiceshake ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass or strain

onto new ice in a rocks glass. Cocktail recipes and definitions change with the times (just like language)

so we re taking a broad and modern view of a Sour here. At one point a Sour always called for lemon juice not lime.

At a later point Sours usually had added egg white to them to give them a frothy head.

Heck a better name for this drink format would be the Sweet -and-Sour so let s not get too hung up on that.

or lime juice but it can be grapefruit or yuzu juice or even muddled sour candy

if that s how you roll. The sweet component can be anything from a nonalcoholic sweetener like simple syrup agave nectar and grenadine to a liqueur like Cointreau or peach schnapps.

It could even be an artificial sweetener like Sweet âÂ# N Low though most bartenders would argue against that choice.

Then we can throw in anything else to the drink that doesn t alter that sweet-to-sour balance.

Egg whites are used still in vintage-style Whiskey sours and all Pisco Sours to give them a nice foamy head and softer texture.

Herbs and spices and bitters can provide accents as well. Pick one of each and get started:

Base spirits: Vodka gin tequila brandy/cognac rum pisco bourbon rye scotch cachaca etc. Sour elements:

Lemon juice lime juice grapefruit juice yuzu juice (make sure it s unsalted. Note that orange juice and pineapple juice are rather sweet

so if you use those you ll also want a sour juice in the drink as well.

Most bartenders use lime. Sweet elements: Raw sugar simple syrup (equal parts sugar and water) agave syrup (equal parts agave nectar and water) honey syrup (equal parts honey

and water) maple syrup etc. Extras: Herbs (mint basil oregano etc. spices (cinnamon nutmeg black pepper hot sauce etc.

egg white garnishes (citrus zests cherries etc. That 2: 1: 1 ratio (2 parts base spirit to 1 part sour to 1 part sweet) can change depending on a bar s house style.

A neighborhood bar might make drinks with a little less booze; while a modern speakeasy-style cocktail bar might emphasize the spirit by reducing both the sweet and sour.

Some people like their Sours on the sweet side while others may take a citrus-forward approach.

Start with 2: 1: 1 proportions find the balance that you like and go forth and make many cocktails.

âÂ#¢The Cosmopolitan is actually a clever variation on the Sour with citrus vodka triple sec lime juice and cranberry juice

âÂ#¢Add soda water or another unsweetened filler to a Sour and you ve got a whole new group of cocktails at your disposal (known as the Collins). A Mojito is a Rum Collins with Mint

which in turn is just a Daiquiri with soda water and mint. A French 75 is a Gin Sour with champagne as the filler.

If you use a sweetened soda like ginger beer as a filler you ll need to reduce

or eliminate the other sweet component. âÂ#¢You can also use a sweet liqueur for the base spirit (as in the Amaretto Sour)

but then you ll want to seriously reduce the amount of the sweet element to rebalance the drink

#Mystery Animal Contest: Who is this Upside-down Tree-Dweller? So here are the rules: To answer follow us on Twitter and tweet at us with the hashtag#mysteryanimal.

For example: Hey@Popsci is the#mysteryanimal a baboon? And then I might say if you think that's a baboon perhaps you are the baboon!

#Is Red Bull Downplaying Research On The Harms Of Mixing Alcohol And Energy Drinks? Step away from the Jà ¤gerbomb.

Peter Miller a psychologist from Austrialia's Deakin University has taken to BMJ (formerly The british Medical Journal) to air his view that energy drink titans like Red Bull are meddling in research that explores the harms of mixing energy drinks

and alcohol providing funding and placebo supplies to scientists whose research supports their interests. Red Bull sold 4. 6 million cans of its picker-upper last year presumably in large part to college students who wanted to use it as a mixer.

and in a 2007 study 73 percent of U s. college students said they had mixed energy drinks with booze in the past month According to that study from Nutrition Journal most energy drinks pack a caffeine punch of 80 to 141

milligrams per 8 ounces about the same as two cans of soda plus various energy boosters like caffeine ginseng and taurine.

Some studies have found energy drinks and alcohol together to be associated with riskier behavior including aggressive sexual behavior and drinking and driving.

Still the research is slim. Red Bull has only been around since 1997 and in lab settings researchers can't just get people wasted

and give them tons of energy drinks. Because you know ethics. So according to Miller most lab research has been restricted to looking at people with low levels of intoxication who consume only one energy drink.

Many of the researchers who have declared mixing alcohol and Red Bull to be completely safe have been funded by Red Bull.

From Miller: Red Bull often provides a placebo drink to researchers--after the company approves their protocols

--but as one psychologist told Livescience this means that there's no independent verification that the placebo doesn't contain stimulants like the active version of the Drink in an email to Popular Science Patrice Radden a spokesperson for Red Bull had this to say in response to Miller

but his main point is that researchers who study energy drinks should have to declare any conflicts of interest in their work

and tell people that energy drinks are safe. And that's a pretty easy argument to get behind.

48pm-Comment by drchuck1 If people smoked weed instead of drinking; many many lives would be saved.

Watermelon and tomatoes taste very bitter. Citrus fruits are so sour that I can't stand them.

When I was in grade school they started a program where they made us drink orange juice every day.

certain sea anemones can bud identical twins from the sides of their bodies. Aphids bees and ants can reproduce asexually.

Civets selectively eat the best ripe coffee berries and their digestive tracts strip the fruit from the beans.

The researchers analyzed Kopi Luwak that they produced (presumably with civets in lab) as well as commercially sold Kopi Luwak and commercially sold regular coffee beans from different regions in Indonesia.

They found that digested coffee beans had significantly different levels of certain acids than non-digested beans.

lolalso curious what would a meatarian drink? water milk meat juice or gravy...mmm...delicious gravy. heart attack alert.

Anywho on a serious note:..the article is correct if you were to take on a Meat only diet it's not exactly the best choice. you COULD do it

and sea salt (Has to be iodized NON) 2 teaspoons of salt to 1 quart of WARM water. maybe a pinch of lemon juice and then down the hatch.

and have drink or somethin'!'Jack Daniels! Goes great with a good prime rib! Today's magic is tomorrow's technology.

PDID any of the tea partiers get some of it? You shd ask them. Really?

and took 1 teas. morn and 1 teas. for night then upped it gradually). Short lasting pains started happening all over my brain THEN the 4 main organs

I worried about were effected one by one. The gullbladder wrenched with pain then I was relieved finally in esctasy!

but their unofficial headquarters is an open-air bar called the Drop off originally built for the production crew of CBS's Survivor:

Several days into the expedition they head there for dinner and order a round of local Red Rooster beers.

The next day Bentprop compares the aircraft in the western lagoon with a hundred different vintage planes.

For the rest of his life Mccullah who after his rescue went back to the base had a brandy

-and-bar symbol the aircraft has been scoured to bare aluminum. Scripps wants to use its technology to document this chapter of the Corsair's story too before it ends altogether.

the bartender was pouring like completely full-to-the-brim glasses of wine possibly to counter any trepidation the guests had about eating toffee that was covered intentionally with bugs.

in Mexico for instance chapulines or grasshoppers are a favorite bar snack and taco filling. But here eating bugs is limited pretty much to reality TV SHOWS.

which makes tasty high protein bars from the crickets. Jakub Dzamba our featured speaker for the series is also working on cricket reactors (farms) that can sit on your kitchen counter.

#The Science Of Alcohol Aging SPONSORED ARTICLE The complete science of barrel-aging whisky is something we have only recently come to understand.

what happens when the Glenfiddich distillery men lay the base spirit to rest in oak casks and store it in one of our 46 warehouses.

Our Malt Master Brian Kinsman told me that every new cask of spirit has the same opportunity of becoming a 12-year-old Scotch as it does of becoming one of the extremely rare casks that make up our incredible 50

but it is important to remember that each different wood gives its own unique characteristics to the whisky.

At the Glenfiddich distillery we take the base spirit which comes off the still at 65.6%ABV

The wood casks perform three important functions to the aging of the whisky:''subtractive''additive'and'interactive.'

'The relationship between the liquid and the wood is one of the many intriguing aspects of whisky.

After all that mysterious and storied past is part of the allure of Scotch whisky! by Mitch Bechard Glenfiddich Ambassador To learn more about the fascinating world of single malts visitglenfiddich.

Glenfiddich Single Malt Scotch whisky is registered a trademark of William Grant & Sons Ltd. Every new cask of spirit has the same opportunity of becoming a 12-year-old Scotch as it does of becoming one of the extremely rare casks that make up our incredible 50 Year Old.

Brian Kinsmanglenfiddich Malt Masterthree MODES OF CASK AGINGSUBTRACTIVE: Wood casks remove impurities within the whisky.

The inside of American oak barrels is charred usually. Charcoal with its billions of tiny pores is a great purifier.

Wood gives flavor and character to the whisky. Oak wood contains hemicellulose lignin and tannins.

These elements cultivate chemical reactions with the base spirit adding aromatic molecules to produce flavors such as coconut vanilla and fruit.

Wood also varies the color of the whisky. We find that Scotch whisky matured in European wood will have a darker more reddish hue to it than that

which has spent most of its life in American wood. INTERACTIVE: Wood is semi-porous meaning that the cask is always breathing

As we age the whisky the alcohol content of the liquid drops. We must be mindful of this as spirit below 40%ABV can no longer legally be called Scotch whisky.

So is the white oak whiskey sold under a different label than the european oak whiskey?

Does the base spirit itself have any flavour that differentiates it from say the base spirit used for vodka or gin?

Oh I forgot but if is there an opening for an Angel in your distillery please do not hesitate to contact me.

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#Coconut Husks Make for A Stronger, Lighter Paddleboardwhile biking near his home in Thailand Paolo Cechetti noticed a man weaving raw coconut-husk fibers into bags.

and Edward Drinker Cope over discoveries of new dinosaur species reportedly leading to the wrong head being put on an apatosaurus body

#How 3-D Printing Body parts Will Revolutionize Medicinea device the size of an espresso machine quietly whirs to life.

and egg (but curiously no salt) colored with beet juice and saffron and presented to the public.

Every Dutchman (the original ones not the imported) drinks milk with their lunch. Hey we're the tallest people in the world.

However unless it can come down in price to match a good old fashioned ruler I doubt most teachers will spring for it.

A terrible disease Scientific American calls it the most devastating disease of citrus plants in the world is spreading in the U s. Five years from now there may be no more Florida orange juice one University of Florida scientist J

Without headlines like The End of Orange juice the story of a citrus disease sounds boring.

The orange juice industry has some dirty secrets anyways. For once if you're drinking processed orange juice and

I bet very few of you fresh squeeze it every day then you're drinking methanol.

When juice is processed first the methanol in it is bound to pectin and passes through your body harmlessly.

if you want healthy orange juice. Of course that would crash a huge juice industry wouldn't it?

Very few of you know how to eat healthy because few of you understand the chemistry involved in preserving the food you eat.

This is not just a unique thing to Orange juice either. Do not try and bend the spoon.

when people get hurt in expected ways like in a bar fight but going back to the previous example slipping on a banana peel might be.

The taste buds on the tongue include lots of taste receptors little bits of protein that bond with other chemicals to detect and signal flavor.

what will soon be the heart of the Breakfast Cereal exhibit at the Museum of Food and Drink.

Junipers are known for the berries which give gin that piney flavor. Most gin companies don't get their juniper berries from the U k. nowadays ABC News reports

but the infection may cross onto mainland Europe. The organism responsible is strangely new to science.

#Woman Drinks Coke Instead of Water For 16 Yearsa 31-year-old Monaco woman was admitted recently to the hospital after suffering arrhythmia

instead she drank only cola. The doctors told her to stop drinking cola and then promptly wrote a paper describing the case.

This is one of those instances like in the movie Super Size Me that isn't really indicative of anything besides the specific case it describes.

The patient apparently drank about two liters of cola every day! Here were the effects: The patient's blood-potassium level was 2. 4 mmol/L. Normal blood-potassium levels for a woman of her age should have been about twice that.

Amazingly as soon as the doctors took the patient off of her bonkers cola habit her potassium levels

or exaggerated her claim of only drinking coke huh. While I do not believe drinking coke is part of healthy diet pyramid

and drinking much coke will cause health problems I do not consider this article science but instead just oddball human observational story telling.

Funny...because I pretty much did just this myself. Not proud of it but I did. I once bought a 2. 5 gallon container of water with the pouring spout

don't besmirch the word science by writing such an unscientific article like this demonizing soda for this woman's OVERALL terrible health habits.

The Coke probably helped unbalance her potassium but had she been eating any assortment of vegetables that have plenty of potassium

Substituting coke for water or Mcdonald's for sustenance is simply a way to show that the accessories that the food industry has to offer are not healthier alternatives to the accessories that occur naturally.

What if we took a person who drank two liters of cola every day and had them switch to water for 16 years?

Cat48. comthis scenario presents itself everytime in other countries for example in my country Mexico the country has the first place on coke (USA sewer water) consuption

dad mom coke Drinking coke for to many time I'm surprised that no kidney stones appeared here in Mexico is the most common first symptom that appears to coke drinkers.

me to the wonders of Coke when at just after graduating from a newborn she put a little bit in my bottle an archaic tradition in many hispanic countries that is losing popularity

The doctors suggested giving me a half-ounce or less of Coke to calm me down.

old enough to grab my own tasty beverage. My choice? Coke of course. I was diagnosed with Diabetes at the age of 11

but it's not what you think. This was caused the sort by something in my genes.

You're thinking all the Coca-cola did me in but being a diabetic would have been a fact regardless of what

I now consume (more or less) 2-liters of Diet Coke per day. Here's the thing...

I've been drinking nearly 2-liters of Coke per day for most of my life and

had an aunt who drank nothing but soda for a few years and got diabetes...Morgan Spurlock consumed nothing by Mcdonald's for a full month...

Coke is strong enough that mechanics use it to kill battery acid. It also contains phosphoric acid the same chemical used to kill rust.

what they eat and drink: Shrewd is the one that has seen the calamity and proceed to conceal himself

and drinks we take in that is not natural but health issues can result (and it varies from person to person)

or drink is causing a change in how they perhaps feel. IâÂ#Â#m surprised that some of the comments below are missing the point.

Arenã¢Â#Â#t you amazed that after just a week of leaving off the soda her levels were almost back to normal?

I have been drinking a six pack or more of coke/Pepsi since I was 16. I am 43 now.

I've been switched drinking Pepsi from Coke after the New Coke scandal of 1986) for over 4 decades at the rate of about 4 cans a day.

I rarely touch water or juice but I also don't drink coffee tea milk or alcohol.

I suspect my ridiculously good health is more good gene's and a good mental attitude than anything the scientific community can quantify.

I've been drinking coke for 30 years now I drink anywhere from 2 to 4 liters daily.

and a majority of the Trashy people that come in there only know of Soda pop as their drink of choice.

I suggested he stop drinking Soda pop and instead drink water. He says Water taste like

The Coke had nothing to do with her illness or her low potassium. Like most soft drinks Coke is water

and sugar with tiny amounts of caffeine and phosphoric acid and flavors giving energy from the sugar and water to hydrate the body but empty of other nutrients and in no way harmful.

I do doubt the doctor's conclusions that the cola was the problem. I know many people who have drank only colas (more than 2l per day) for 30-40 years

and do not have potassium problems nor are they diabetic. I also know two people who had heart attacks from drinking too much water as in greater than 3l in a day.

One person died. The autopsy showed the friend's blood had been diluted so much they could barely find any potassium in it.

The surviving friend now limits himself to. 5l a day total of water and on rare occasions a beer or a glass of wine.

It's my third day on homemade Soylent a food-replacing beverage made of nutrients in their raw chemical forms

and selenium--and combined them into a drink he named Soylent. Rhinehart also includes a few things that aren't strictly necessary but

I want to believe that one drink could be a perfectly balanced diet that it could help me sleep better give me more energy help

and he fills it with a variety of white powders--salt fiber potassium chloride monosodium phosphate and maltodextrin (carbohydrates) from an enormous tub labeled Muscle Feast and adorned with a weirdly muscular dog.

and put in the drink for the sake of avoiding chunks. I tilt the glass up to my lips

and a vanilla milkshake respectively except not quite. It's as though an alien race tried to recreate the taste of those things out of chemicals they had available to them

Drinking Soylent doesn't make me feel full in the classical sense; there's no heaviness in my stomach no food baby.

The first night Tom and I go out with friends and drink beers watching while they chow down on burgers and macaroni and cheese.

I usually take my pills and drink two glasses in the morning one around lunchtime and one for dinner.

I eat food daily my only apprehension from drinking it full-time are concerns for missing vital micro-nutrients

Haha honestly my family started a month long juice fast and being on day 13

and how does it compare to the old fashioned way of raising an animal on a farm?

HFCS as it's called is a relentlessly common sweetener in everything from soda to bread.

but those who insist on drinking only water as a beverage run the risk of diluting

#Your Complete Guide To White wine Infographic So you're about to order a bottle of tasty white wine!

Graphic designer Sean Seidell who previously made this equally delicious infographic overview of chocolate flavors aggregated wine reviews from sites like Wine Spectator to organize 20 different types of wine.

The wines are arranged by 20 different flavors like honey and herbal then more generally by five categories:

Dryness or sweetness of course is as much a result of the winemaker's technique as it is of the source grape varietal

One of the things I enjoyed most about this project was researching a wine and then going out to purchase a bottle of that wine Seidell wrote in an email to Popular Science.

First I would try the wine without looking at my notes and try to sort out the flavors.

I'd come up with maybe four flavors at most on my own. Then I would look at my research notes

Sauvignon blanc for example had appeared what to be an impossible number of flavors but as I drank it

You'll know exactly what you want for a nice drink. Or to get trashed on.

since the cicada larvae are eating more and more tree juices from the roots to get ready for their brief adulthood.

Quartz via Verge Can it make Tea Earl Grey hot...It would probably look like the food served on the Discovery 1. http://www. collativelearning. com/PICS%20for%20website/stills/2001interview. jpga flat tray of rehydrated mashed potatoes a flat tray of rehydrated

Imagine compressing a weird space-apple from all sides until a jet of space-apple juice explodes out of a tiny point before the apple turns into a black apple hole.

Imagine compressing a weird space-apple from all sides until a jet of space-apple juice explodes out of a tiny point before the apple turns into a black apple holei disagree.

instead had people drink artificially flavored drinks. Some of the drinks were calorie-free while others contained maltodextrin a carbohydrate that people can't taste

but still has calories. In a series of experiments the Yale psychologists found that over three weeks'time people come to like the flavor paired with maltodextrin more

Although they gave everyone 112.5 calories'worth of maltodextrin in their caloric drinks different people have different metabolisms

so people's blood sugar levels differed after drinking their maltodextrin drink. The researchers saw that two regions in the brain the hypothalamus

and the nucleus accumbens responded to the drinks in such a way that people with more blood glucose after drinking had more of a brain response.

Meanwhile the hypothalamus and nucleus accumbens responses weren't related to how much people said they liked their drinks.

#Why Your Beer Gets So Warm On Humid Days Today in Very Important Science: beer koozies are even more crucial than you think.

When you pull a beer out of the fridge the condensation that builds up on the outside of the can releases heat warming your drink twice as much in humid weather compared with dry weather researchers found recently.

Beer koozies you see are priceless protectors of the cold. Researcher Dale Durran of the University of Washington arrived at this conclusion

while trying to teach concepts like evaporative cooling and heat caused by condensation; he figured a cool drink on a sultry day served as a good example.

He calculated how much warmth comes from water droplets on the outside of a can. Water just four-thousandths of an inch thick could warm the can's contents quickly he found.

Probably the most important thing a beer koozie does is not simply insulate the can

The can was cooled first down in a bucket of ice water then dried off to remove excess moisture.

To many cow forts in the world makes for a sweaty beer. Please eat more veggies less meat!!!

our atmosphere is just a bit more dynamic than a beer can and a koozie. While explosions drive our car's wheels...

I live in desert AZ with an average summertime humidity around 8%.My root beer WILL stay cooler longer without using a'beer cozy'.

and increase in farts also the beer and speciual diets fed to the cattle will increase the farts. 3. the increase in vegetables will decrease the natural arid landscapes kept by cattle farmers that adds to the clean air in favour for industrial farming that ruins natural habitat

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