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New Year's Day Hangover Cures: Let's Get Scientific

By Rebecca Dittmar Mon., Dec. 31 2012 at 7:48 AM
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The Hangover: Part II (of Your New Year's Celebration)
Happy New Year! The over-priced parties, the drunk drivers, the immense pressure on the midnight kiss forever dividing the happily coupled from the desperately single... We hope it will be magical. But New Year's Day will remind you that you're 365 days older and less able to handle your liquor.

Your body might be a temple, but praying to the porcelain gods for mercy never saved anyone. To deal with a hangover, one must turn to science.

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Oktoberfest 2012 in South Florida: Celebrations in Lantana, Las Olas, Oakland Park, Boca, and Miami

By Alex Rendon Fri., Sep. 21 2012 at 1:39 PM
Categories: Drinking Rituals, Gastronomic Gatherings

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Oktoberfest is here again, folks. It is the time of year to party like a German in brown leather pants, guzzling endless liters of barley and malt brews. We know -- sporting lederhosen in South Florida's penetrating heat is not a logistical reality, considering the risk of massive chaffing and potential for yeast infections. Traditional attire aside, one thing South Florida does right is throw a proper party. Prost!

Although our part of the country does not sport an extraordinary amount of German descendants, what it lacks in ancestral makeup, it makes up for in bacchanalian desire. Give us any old reason to throw a shindig --we dare you-- and we will be there, looking like beer wenches, swigging our mugs, no matter the occasion. So here we go, toasting to the marriage of some German prince from two hundred years ago. Sounds like a good excuse for a sizable hangover, right?

Look for the list of South Florida's top five Oktoberfest parties, after the jump.

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A Florida Rum Distillery, Dark and Stormy in a Can, and Other Drink Links

By Melissa McCart Tue., Apr. 3 2012 at 7:39 AM
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Read on for today's roundup of Floridacentric links. Today's focus is on drinks.

1. Wicked Dolphin Artisan Rum will be the newest booze made in Florida. Created from molasses, water, sugar, and yeast and distilled in aged barrels, the first batches from Cape Coral will be ready by May and distributed by October. Wicked Dolphin will produce a white and an amber rum.

2. Created in 1917 in North Carolina, Cheerwine has developed a cult following. The bubbly, wild-cherry retro drink became available in Florida this past fall. Have you seen it? We've been looking for some. 

3. Also be on the lookout for the newest cocktail in a can, the Dark and Stormy. Made by Gosling, the 8.4-ounce can was released last month in the U.S., a combination of Gosling's Black Seal Rum and its Stormy Ginger Beer. CEO Malcolm Gosling said it's marketed to the "younger, trendsetting consumer" and "people on the go."

4. Fancy yourself a creative cocktail creator? The National Restaurant Association wants to see you make your drink. Upload a two-minute video of yourself making your signature cocktail by April 6 for a chance to be flown to Chicago to shake or stir live for Top Chef celeb Spike Mendelsohn and cocktail maven Dale DeGroff. It's for the International Wine, Spirits, and Beer Event on May 6 and offers the chance to win $5,000. Judging begins April 9. For more information, click here. 

5. Are you an "almost alcoholic"? The Atlantic addresses the drinking spectrum. 

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St. Patrick's Day at The Village at Gulfstream Park: A Cocktail Recipe and Tons of Corned Beef

By Tricia Woolfenden Wed., Mar. 14 2012 at 11:59 AM
Categories: Drinking Rituals, Holidays
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How much food and beer can a crowd pack away on a day like St. Patrick's Day? Kurt Ditzler, general manager for Playwright Irish Pub at the Village at Gulfstream Park puts the estimate fairly high. "We're planning on going through a hundred pounds of corned beef and fifteen cases of potatoes," he said via email earlier this week. The Irish pub has fifteen kegs of Guinness in the cooler ready to satisfy those who won't be chugging the green beer.

Playwright is part of the Village at Gulfstream Park's "Second Floor Party" planned for Saturday. The action starts at 2 p.m., with Playwright and the Martini Bar offering food and drink specials and live Irish music 'til the wee hours of Sunday morning. Playwright will serve its biggest St. Patrick's Day sellers, Shepherd's pie and of course, corned beef and cabbage. An additional "Party at the Park" outside will have yet even more chances to listen to live music while imbibing your favorite Irish treats.


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South Florida's Best Bars to Take Out-of-Towners

By Tricia Woolfenden Fri., Mar. 2 2012 at 7:23 AM
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Here in South Florida, we're pretty damned good at drinking -- particularly in bars. When someone visits from out of town, it's only right to share some of this talent with your guest. Given that our region is home to some pretty out-of-the-ordinary drinking destinations, you've got extra motivation to load up the visitors and ferry them to something a bit more unusual than your local hole in the wall or sports bar. Below are five of South Florida's best bars to take out-of-towners. As always, please let us know your picks -- and why they belong on this list -- in the comments section.

Mai-Kai Restaurant and Polynesian Show

The full dinner and show experience at this ultra-kitschy restaurant and lounge can get pretty pricey, but your guest will probably be just as entertained if you forgo the main course for a round or two of showy cocktails. Try the rum-soaked happy hour at the Molokai Bar from 5 to 7 p.m. daily and get half off appetizers. Keep an eye out for young lovelies in midriff-baring island garb, and toast to the good life over behemoth tiki drinks.

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Know Your Oranges

By Melissa McCart Tue., Jan. 24 2012 at 8:19 AM
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​While many of my food-focused friends have this Breville contraption so they can make themselves a glass of beet ginger juice in the morning, I was gifted the aluminum thing from the '50's that looks like a torture device. A family friend loved them so much that he bought one for me. I've grown to love it, especially down here in Florida.

"You've missed the red navels," said a guy shopping for his wife at Bob Roth's Groves yesterday afternoon. "These just aren't as good." We were sampling navels, and honestly, he spoke like one who'd been spoiled by what we've got. I was looking for Temples, anyway. I knew they had just become available. There was one bag left for me. 

Navels are what we're most familiar with, though the season ends in late January. Named for a resemblance to its namesake, it's easy to peel yet not as juicy as other oranges, while the red navel that's sold through December has a deeper hue and notes of berry.

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Cocktail Culture Exhibition Now at Norton Museum of Art

By Tricia Woolfenden Wed., Dec. 21 2011 at 3:47 PM
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Whet your appetite for drink at "Cocktail Culture."
​As if you need an excuse to partake of a festive martini or highball this time of year, Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach is hosting an ode to all things shaken and stirred with "Cocktail Culture."

The 150-plus-piece exhibition features ads, accessories, fashion, and objets d'art that prove America's current cocktail infatuation ain't nothing new.

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