(Not) Energy Drink by Burn Unit, EchHeck, r0ck c4ndy, Shea Wolfe, Lia Lowry, JJason Recognition, star5, Ink Tea, Celina, Curiou Sir, Henry, space bug, S 4, Blue Tulip
March 7th, 2008 1:21 PM / Location: 45.012241,-93.30916Don't you?«
It was one of those nights, when the weather really digs in, and the family stress is running high. The kids were feeling sick. The grownups were feeling sick and tired. Jail visits, late papers, working overtime, money's tight, Winter is king and Angst, his well-heeled queen.
I said to BlueTulip, "Baby we need a party. We need a coming together. We need something to get people movin again. We must overcome this winter funk." Thus the MNZero Tasktail Hour was born, an opportunity for us to get together with the old gang and the new, revive the spirits, and commit a little praxis.
We set up an event, a date was chosen, and invites extended. Soon a crowd of well dressed dames and slick boys materialized and we were off to the races.
We elected to take "design and produce" a step further, by also making an effort to create production-ready packaging. Bottles were decorated to match concoctions (one concoction was built to attempt to match a bottle) and drinks both alcoholic and non flowed freely.
We came up with a number of interpretations for the task. We also present some of the recipes below (not all libations that were made were preserved by documentation) and a good time was had by all. We produced a couple drinks attempting to reflect group values from SF0 (and there's a couple more to be completed, documented, and posted).
A Minnesotan Drink by JJason
Combine:
A Bit of Coconut Juice - For Snow
A Bit of A New Soda Experience - For More Snow
A Tiny Dollop of Grenadine - For the Cherry
Vodka to Taste - For Norwegians
Add an unreasonable amount of ice. Served chilled. As you drink, revel as the ice slides down the glass to rest on your face, freezing the bridge of your nose.
Commentary on the Drink: Why yes, the winter is getting to me a little. Why do you ask?
right.«
A SNIDE Drink by Doktor Harmon
In a collins glass, combine:
1/2 oz vodka
1 oz Irish cream
a splash of grenadine (optional, but the color really adds something)
Add enough soda water to fill the glass.
A BARTPA Drink by Doktor Harmon and Burn Unit
1.5 oz. sake
1.5 oz. rum
2 dashes orange bitters
Shake with plenty of ice and strain into a cocktail glass.
Commentary: We made this to use the two ingredients from the furthest away from each other we possibly could - sake from Japan and rum from Nicaragua seemed to be the closest we had to antipodal ingredients. Burn Unit compared the taste to rainwater, with a vicious kick. The sake used was an unfiltered type, and the rum was cheap tasting. Next time, I'll try a better rum and a cleaner sake.
Commentary by Curiou Sir
My attempt at a drink was judged too sweet by those I had try it, so I did not record it. However, the ingredient I brought was used in, at least, one completed drink, by r0ck c4ndy, I believe. So, I consider going to this at least somewhat successful. [I brought the pomegranate molasses]
A truly not energy drink by Shea Wolfe
I was looking at this task, trying to decide what to do with it. So I asked myself "What is energy?" The answer I came up with, is energy is anything that can produce heat, as energy is always lost through heat when used. Therefore, to make a not energy drink one must first have a normal drink and then proceed to remove the energy. How to remove the energy though? This was the problem I faced. But then it hit me, I could use fire! fire is a release of energy almost directly to heat, wonderful for removing all that pesky energy.
The method employed was to place vodka in a pan on the stove, then get it evaporating, then light the vapors on fire. It worked (eventually) and the vapors burned away, leaving a de-alcoholized liquid which was consumed.
party, party«
The Swirling Madness by Burn Unit
Pre-mix:
Blue sweeteners including blueberry jam and blue raspberry cocktail sweetener
Boiling water
Gelatin
Let this purple stuff set up a little in a bag. Snip off the corner of the bag and pipe the gelatin mixture into the Milkis liquid (just like piping frosting onto a cake). Put the container into the fridge for a while to accumulate more magical essence (i.e., set up even more). Consume.
Or don't.
Probably don't.
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It could be said that the real take Burn Unit had in mind was
Design and produce a fun occasion to drink.
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- Iaman
- GYØ Ben
- .thatskarobot
- Lincøln
- Fonne Tayne
- The Duchess
- Not Here No More
- Haberley Mead
- Jellybean of Thark
- Tøm
- Dax Tran-Caffee
- Magpie
- Minch
- teucer
- Darkaardvark
- Sean Mahan
- Spidere
- anna one
- Adam
- Loki
- Blue
- Kyle Westwood
- Optical Dave
- Bex.
- Secret Agent
- Herbie Hatman
- Ricky Ricardo
- rongo rongo
- Kyle Hamilton
- Rao
- Icarus
- Ben Whitehouse
- meredithian
- Waldo Cheerio
- Pish
- Ombwah
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shplank35 comment(s)
I'm not sure, but I don't think anyone was drunk. Hard to believe, I know.
vote for the fairy child overseeing the chaos.
Overseeing? More like "half the cause of!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si397lKYPwA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isafURQUNSE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SezDpPx723o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD6LJnG83MM
I beg your pardon, no one intentionally deleted them!
I fucking hate you guys.
You stole the Shplank! Oh well, back to square one for me, I guess - nice to see some names in there that I haven't seen for a while :)
Having left early, I'm curious: did any of the other groups end up getting drinks made for them?
(I knew when I suggested it that it would be a tall order...)
I am disappointed, though, that the requested pineapple still sits on our kitchen counter.
Damn. I took BU aside and gave directions for what we ought (in my opinion and as the basis of the request) to have done with it, but then we got sidetracked on the BARTPA drink.
And then I had to go.
Sorry about that. My bad.
And i messaged about the pineapple one. just send me the recipe and this will all go away
Also, she's just disappointed because it means I've caused the kitchen to be messy. Still.
I enjoyed the "we are removing energy from the drink with science". Looked like a fun night.
AND we are so totally lame for not just EATING it. What's WRONG with us?!
Looks like a great time, and that's saying something when you're talking about Minnesota in the late winter.
Huh, I somehow missed the message asking me to message you the pineapple recipe. In penance, I will post it in public for any other pineapple fans who may want to do stuff with pineapples of their own:
Cut the pineapple as you would to eat it. In fact, eat it if you like, pineapple is tasty. However, instead of throwing away the skin (and little bit of outside fruit that comes off with it), toss it into a sterilized one-gallon container along with two pounds of dark brown sugar and a little bit of fresh ginger. Add enough water to top it off, and cover it, ideally with an airlock and an otherwise-airtight seal to avoid contamination.
When the gas coming off it smells like something you might actually want to consume, as opposed to kinda funky in a way that vaguely resembles old books, it's ready to be bottled; this will take a bit over a week usually. You can put it in glass bottles, or just siphon it into a few one-liter soda bottles or something. Whatever you do, do *not* add priming sugar.
Leave the bottles out overnight, then transfer them to a cold refrigerator.
The above is known as guarapo de piña and is, I am told, a traditional drink in Valencia. I have substituted orange blossom honey for the brown sugar and made an exceptionally popular small mead; other substitutions are also possible. The result will always be sweet and fizzy. If you let it ferment to dryness it will get a bit sour; I suspect lactobacilli are to blame but I don't really know.
You can probably also get away with leaving bottles out overnight with a piece of pineapple skin in them, then removing said skin, to make something fizzy but not significantly alcoholic; I haven't tried this version myself so I don't know for sure.
In any event, I submit that if a somewhat different version of this happens to the tasktail hour pineapple, the specifics should be added to this praxis, as nothing tops tropical fruit and wild yeast for those wishing to make a Biome drink.
Substitute the ginger for cinnamon and cloves (or leave the spices out altogether) and you´ll get tepache, fermented for 2-4 days in clay pots: fizzy and non-alcoholic. Some people add beer midway through the fermentation process. Some others add tequila afterwards.
oh THAT's interesting
I looked at this on my praxis page and... five flags? double you tee eff? same with make someone's day. Hm.
Somebody have a problem here? Since I'm pretty sure I'm the only thread in common on both of those tasks, some secret unadmirer have a problem with me? Because there's nothing wrong with my collaborators on these. Back off, man!
See the discussions on shenanigans going on everywhere.
All tasks with more than 26 votes have 5 flags, the podcast task has 6.
You know, I feel kinda left out cause there's all these Shenanigans and they seem to have all been fixed before I log in.
I relate to the Minnesota drink...screw the winter *shakesfist* but anyway, nice job, guys
hey dammit, I always want more votes but not a flood of bots!
I suppose someone's leaving clues? today's guess: DNA!
'm srry.
But I did notice the DNA thing too. TCACGCG, eh? Which would correspond to AGTGCGC. Or AGUGCGC, if we're transcribing to RNA.
uh? I see CGGCTAC. Did the vote order change?
look! someone did it on a large scale!
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/05/antienergy-drink.html
Pssh, they totally ripped off SF0 on that one.
Neat, so the Doktor goes everywhere in that labcoat then?