Month: May 2014

Oranges and Ghosty Berries

Huzzah! I kept a promise!

Ok, so the jar of oranges that had been sitting in my fridge soaking in UV Peach?

Destroyed.

We ate them pretty fast last night. They were delicious! Little mandarin oranges are perfect for drinks, or just alcohol infused munchies. They soak up booze really well, and hold the flavor too. I’ll have to try soaking cranberries in UV Peach too… Then I can combine the two for a Sex on the Beach fruit salad. Fucking yum. (Or… Oranges in Peach Schnapps, Cranberries in straight vodka? Yeah. I’m totally doing that…)

Now, alcohol infused fruit is pretty much for the taste. It’s fun to have fruit that makes your mouth a little tingly, and has a tiny kick to it. They go great in punch. Usually though, they aren’t destined to kick your ass and get you wasted. The oranges are more of an appetizer.

Which brings me to the strawberries… (of DOOM!)

Eldritch had made a pie a while back including strawberries. At one point, she put some Bacardi 151 in a container with strawberries. She wanted a really kick your ass kind of pie… The pie itself was tasty. Now, she said the strawberries weren’t bad the first week she put them in there. Obviously, they had a punch. 151 does not fuck around.

The downside?

The leftover strawberries were left in the 151 for about the same amount of time as the oranges. A few weeks.

Let me tell you what happened…

The strawberries died.

They were resurrected.

They mutated, died again, and have now come to haunt your dreams.

I am not kidding. Those fucking strawberries were OMGWTFHARSHITBURNSOMGITSFULLOFEVILEYOHOEWSewyoledh!!!1!!

Fucking yikes.

I highly do not recommend doing this. Those things are brutal, and the 151 turns the strawberries into some sort of evil incarnate.

On the plus side, Eldritch confirmed something that we’d seen at the local grocery store. We had seen moonshine in cute little jars on the shelf before. The ones with strawberries in it looked really weird. The strawberries were white.

As it turns out, strawberries really do lose their color if you let them sit in harsh stuff like that. Good to know. Worse to eat…

Guilds and Oranges

Evening folks. Er… Folk. Dude?

Hi.

Ok, so one of the biggest things we like to focus on here at Drunken Alchemy is the social side of drinking. And what’s more social?

Drinking and gaming!

As a reminder warning, there will be more gaming talk around here. Wildstar awesomeness is pending. (Open Beta is still up until Sunday if you haven’t tried it out…) Once that hits officially, I’ll be setting up a guild. Server has yet to be determined, but I’ll definitely post about it once things are up and running.

Now, DA was founded by gaming. Not sure how many times I’ll mention that, but hey, it’s important so get used to hearing me say it…. This is why I’m trying to get more gaming oriented posts here.

Gaming does good things. It brings people together. Granted, a lot of games are online nowadays, so you don’t officially get together in a physical sense, but there is still chat/voice chat involved. If you can get the right group of people together, you can still have a blast online while you sit at home alone. Plus, playing online means clothing is optional! Er… Hmm. Was that too revealing?

Ahem.

Right. Drinks. Games… Stuff that’s not embarrassing…

Ok. I’ll try to get a better list of games that we enjoy somewhere on the site. For one, content. We’re lacking it. For two, we’d like to expand the Drunken Alchemy community. Course, to meet some kind of social standard/requirement… We’re going to need more than just myself and Eldritch.

So… If you are a gamer, please comment with whatever current games you are playing. If we can join you in a drunken dungeon run or discuss the perils that drunken dice rolling have on your characters… Well, we’d love to! Hell, even if there isn’t drinking involved, gaming stories can be entertaining!

If there is enough of a draw, maybe I’ll add some forums to the site. Until then… /cheers

Aurins drink fancy like! /pinky

P.S. I’ve had oranges soaking in UV Peach for… 3? 4 weeks? They must be had this weekend! And I’ll try to post a note about how kickass they are. /halfpromise /mostlypromise

-Rabid

Wildstar

Ok folks, remember how I said that I wanted to get more gaming related stuff on here?

Wildstar Open Beta started today! Woo!!! It runs from today until May 18th. This game is damn fun. If you want to try it out without buying anything… Now is the time.

I’ve created a Drunken Alchemy guild over on the Mikros server, Exile side. If you feel like joining, send Akaeva a whisper. (That’s me! Er… My esper.)

Pods, Punch, and Playtime

Hey all. Rabid here. Got a bit of news. Wait, what? News? Actual new type things being written about? Holy shit, right?

Right. So… We’ve decided that the whole video thing will have to wait. We’ve talked about doing skits, interviews, and drunken rambling before. However, we just don’t have the time to invest in doing silly little videos for your viewing pleasure. Eventually that would be great. It’s something that we want to do, but just can’t at the moment. That makes us sad.

Instead, we invested in a mic. We are going to try out the whole podcasting thing first. We’ll see how that goes. There could be similar stuff involved, but with some minor changes.

Now, I’m not saying that we’ll have something available right away. The mic arrived last weekend, and I haven’t even hooked it up to test it out yet. It’s cute though. Eldritch said it looked like a thermal detonator. So, ya know, we’re off to a good start with that.

Ok, so I’m hoping that maybe we can start messing around with that soon. (I know, I always say that shit… But I really really mean it.)

Moving on… We had some drinks a few weeks back that we never mentioned. It had been a rather shitty week, and I grabbed a few things to make the weekend a bit more relaxing. I bought a new big bottle of UV Peach, which is fantastic by the way, and a Cran-Tangerine juice drink. It was a (very) half-assed version of Sex on the Beach. (Which happens to be one of my favorite drinks.) This was more like Sex by the Pond or something…

The combo was pretty tasty. Now, in true Alchemy fashion… We happened to look over at the booze stash, and ideas started pouring in. Literally. Eldritch decided to try it with some strawberry schnapps and cherry pucker. It turned into fruit punch soda.

No really. It seriously tasted like soda. We will have to do that mix again and actually figure out the amounts for a proper recipe type post. Definitely a sneaky bastard though. Tastes so good, and you’ll chug it in no time. Then, suddenly… BAM! /drunk

Lastly, and somewhat randomly, I’d like to talk about games. I’m sure we’ll end up with plenty of drinking games over time. (These things will be posted as we remember them…) For now though, I’m trying to get more gaming related things here. Drunken Alchemy was spawned from gaming. Most of the drinks are because of tabletop rpg silliness.

So I had a thought…

Let’s try to get a Drunken Alchemy gaming community set up.

El and I are both gamers (obviously), and we play a lot of games. I thought it would be nice to connect with others and possibly have a guild/clan/community in various games. The thing is, we need to know what you’re playing.

So please, comment here and let us know what your favorite games are. If we have them, we’ll stop by and say hi. 😀