Aldi: Green Alcohol-infused cheese, stouts, and Irish Bangers just in time for St.Patty's Day!

Aldi Is Selling Green and Alcohol-Infused Cheese for St. Patrick's Day

By EMILY PRICE 

February 25, 2019

Aldi is gearing up for St. Patrick’s Day by adding two specialty cheeses to its store shelves. The two kinds of cheese, a Pesto Gouda and an English Sage Derby, will each be sold for around $4 and have one unique thing in common: they’re green.

The cheeses will officially make their debut in stores on Wednesday, USA Todayreports.

Along with those green cheeses, Aldi is also bringing back its Irish Truckle Assortment for the holiday. Also priced at $4, the trio of cheeses includes an aged Irish cheddar as well as two alcohol-infused kinds of cheese, one infused with beer and the other whiskey.

The cheeses aren’t the only St. Patrick’s Day fare that Aldi will be offering this year. The store’s section for the day also includes Irish stout, Guinness Beer Bread mix, Shepard’s Pie, and a package of Irish-style bangers.

While it’s not Irish whiskey, last year, Aldi’s scotch whisky was named one of the world’s best by trade publication The Spirits business. Aldi’s Highland Black Scotch Whisky also won the gold in the 12 years and younger category at the Spirits business Scotch Whisky Masters.

Aldi currently has 1,600 stores in the United States spread across 35 different states. In 2017, the company said that it hopes to expand its U.S. store base to 2,500 by 2022.

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Alcohol delivery and take home wine? What a time to be alive.

Pour yourself a drink: Bills would allow alcohol delivery and take-home wine!

SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) - Get ready to raise your glass. A couple of bills at the State Capitol would make it easier to take home partially consumed wine, and even have alcohol delivered to your front door.

State lawmakers said they hope these bills are ways to reduce DWI's.

"We have two wonderful wineries in my district, in Luna County, and so the wine growers in the state have been trying to get this legislation passed so that it encourages people to come to their winery, taste wine, purchase wine and still be able to take a partially consumed bottle home," said Rep. Candie Sweetser, (D) Deming.

Rep. Sweetser is sponsoring House Bill 549, which would allow people who don't quite finish their bottle of wine bought at a winery to take it home. The winery would have to re-cork the bottle, seal it in a tamper-proof bag with the receipt before you leave. 

Over in the Senate, there's another liquor bill in the works.

"It is an attempt to try to foster the tourism business," said Sen. Gerald Ortiz y Pino, (D) Albuquerque. "Foster people having nice meals at home provided by a local restaurant...Instead of having to get dressed up and go out, you can have the same experience in the comfort of your own home."

Senate Bill 484, sponsored by Senator Ortiz y Pino, could let you stay at home and get beer or wine delivered to you. But there's a catch: you have to order $25 worth of food from a restaurant to also order alcohol. Sen. Ortiz y Pino said local delivery services would have to check your ID before giving you the alcohol.

Both lawmakers stressed the importance of reducing DWI's, as well as seeing this as an opportunity for local businesses.

Rep. Sweetser's wine bill unanimously passed in the House Commerce and Economic Development Committee. It's now headed to the floor.

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FL Dog park meets full bar

Bark park with a bar; new Florida dog park to serve alcohol

By Jeff Tavss 

ORLANDO - Leave it to Florida to find a way to combine dog play with alcohol.

A new dog park in Orlando will include a full-service bar when it opens later this summer, according to WESH. Boozehounds Dog Bar is the creation of two University of Central Florida graduates who may have come up with this not-so-harebrained idea while on a college bender.

Along with the actual bar, there will be televisions and plenty of space for Fido and Rover to play. Boozehounds will sell passes to the dog bar, with a monthly pass costing a fun-loving dog owner just $20.

Not just any dog will be welcomed at Boozehounds. Rules state that dogs must be over 4 months old, while all dogs over 8 months old must be spayed or neutered.

Boozy Keurigs

Now there is a Keurig for booze and it can make everything from margaritas to Moscow mules

Author: Samantha Kubota

Published: 9:46 PM EST February 20, 2019

WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — It’s maybe not what we needed, but it’s what is happening: a Kurig that makes boozy beverages.

Keurig and Anheuser-Busch InBev got together to launch “Drinkworks,” a machine that can make chilled alcoholic drink with only a pod.

The machine will be able to make cocktails, brews, ciders with the touch of a button, and will offer 24 different drinks to start.

Insider reports the machine will run you $299, plus about $4 a pod and $7 for CO2 tanks.

The machine is only available in St. Louis, Missouri for now, but plans to launch in other states – including Florida and California – this summer.

Worth noting, you cannot make regular coffee K cups in this machine and you have to keep the boozy pods in the fridge. CHEERS!

Beer flips - Raw egg, Beer, spirits, and sugar??

Beer flips are the beer-and-whole egg cocktail—wait, hear me out

By Kate Bernot

Gee, Kate, when are you going to share a recipe for a cocktail that includes hot beer and a whole egg? 

Okay, no one’s ever asked me that, so I’ve taken matters into my own hands. I wanted to learn more about a category of cocktails called flips, which involve beer, a spirit, and an egg, because if there are three substances I always have on hand, it’s beer, booze, and eggs.

Marina Holter, lead bartender at The Whistler in Chicago (and a big flip fan), tells me these are some of the oldest cocktails around, dating back to the 1690s. They originated as nearly equal-parts cocktails: People mixed even amounts of brandy, egg, sugar, then topped it with beer and sometimes inserted a hot soldering iron to froth the beer and heat the drink. Refrigeration wasn’t an option then, so people were used to drinking beer lukewarm or even hot.

If you’ve had hot mulled wine, you can imagine the combination of sugar and warm alcohol that makes a beer flip appealing on a blustery, cold night. But what about that egg? It’s the detail that stops many drinkers in their flip-ordering path, but Holter says you shouldn’t knock it until you’ve tried it. 

“I wouldn’t ever straight-up crack an egg and chug it, but it tastes so good in these drinks. It makes flips a hardy, sweeter cocktail, something decadent without being too bad,” she says. “I don’t want to drink melted ice cream, but I want that in cocktail form.”

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Beer's and Hymns on Sunday. Orlando brewery/church

‘Brewery church’ is the latest in craft of luring folks to church

By. Ken Chitwood

ORLANDO, Fla. (RNS) — Martin Luther, the famed 16th-century rebel monk and Protestant Reformer, is known to have had a penchant for a palatable pint of beer. He even once exclaimed, “Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!”

Perhaps it should come as no surprise then that the first known congregation founded expressly as a “brewery church” is a Lutheran outpost, part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and its Florida-Bahamas Synod.

Castle Church Brewing Community describes itself as “Orlando’s newest premier destination brewery” but also makes clear that while beer is its passion, “as a spiritual community, we exist for people first.”

The community is the brainchild of co-founders the Rev. Jared Witt, now its pastor, and Aaron Schmalzle, its president, both in their 30s. The two began sharing their ardor for beer and fellowship in 2014 in Schmalzle’s garage, where he home-brewed, and soon a community of other folks had bubbled up around them. After small groups began to meet in homes, the pair started plans to found their own brew house.

With a church development grant from the Florida-Bahamas Synod and other fundraising, they secured a spot for the brewery in a diverse neighborhood near Orlando’s airport.

Since it opened in October, the community of about 50 has been meeting each Sunday at 11:11 a.m. for worship in the brewery’s beer garden, using apps on their smartphones in lieu of hymnals. Afterward they enjoy some frothy fellowship.

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"Beer before liquor, never been sicker." - True or False?

'Beer Before Wine, You'll Be Fine' Myth Debunked by New Hangover Study

By  

HELEN MURPHY

 

Everyone knows the old rhymes about how to prevent a hangover by having your alcoholic drinks in a specific order (“Beer before liquor; never been sicker,” “Beer before wine; you’ll be fine,” to name a few) — but how true are they?

Turns out it may not matter what drink you have first, according to a new study by researchers at the Witten/Herdecke University in Germany and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

The study, published in February, examined whether the order of alcohol you drink in a night matters, specifically exploring the age-old advice to drink beer before wine to prevent a hangover.

The study examined 90 German medical and psychology students ranging from ages 19 to 40. Researchers divided the subjects into three groups.

One group drank about 2.5 pints of beer followed by about four glasses of wine. The second group drank the four glasses of wine first, followed by 2.5 pints of beer. The third group (the control group) drank either only beer or only wine.

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