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Top 20 Alcohol, Beer and Wine Trends
1. Powdered Alcohol - Dutch Students Invent Powdered Booze to Sneak Into Clubs
(Anya Nikoulina) Using fake ID’s is so passé these days, now minors can buy alcohol guilt free and more importantly hassle free via Booz2Go. Dutch students from the Helicon Vocational Institute, which is not surprisingly only an hour’s drive from Amsterdam, have invented powdered alcohol that can be sold to m… [More]
2. Alcoholic Breast Augmentation - Boob-Boosting Bulgarian Boza Beer (GALLERY)
(Bianca Bartz) Chug your jugs! Any woman who’s ever wished for bigger boobs is in luck. A Bulgarian company has invented a beer that contains breast-enhancing stimulants proven to increase your cup size.
Boza beer was only available in Bulgaria—until recent custom changes that is.
“European men have been fl… [More]
3. Aluminium Can Recycled Shoes - Tear Your Feet to Shreds?
(londonscout) British designer Georgina Goodman puts her passion, energy and vision to work to create a pair of shoes from recycled drinks cans.
Taking over six to make, the stylish and elegant pair of shoes was made from drinks cans Georgina had collected for recycling at home and in her workshop.
Hand-craft… [More]
4. Top 21 Innovations in Beer - From Beer Milk to Beer for Dogs (GALLERY)
(Jeremy Gutsche) Fake beer bellies, beer for the blind, beer spas and beer for the kids? The world is crazy about beer and this list features the top innovations.
The truth is that it’s time for my Sunday afternoon patio beer, but Toronto are rained out, so… I’ve made a list.
Innovative Beer
Beer + Milk … [More]
5. Personalized Beer Labels
(Juan Rodriguez Villa) Tuborg, a Danish beer brewering company has come up with a very interesting (and in my opinion very trendy) idea. Personalized beer labels. They allow consumers to personalize (or tune) their beer bottles with whatever image you want to use.
This suggests me ideas for birthdays, the almost here Va… [More]
6. High Class Hangovers – World’s Most Expensive Cocktails (VIDEO)
(Bianca Bartz) Today’s elite have turned to cocktail mixologists to unwind. It is no longer enough to buy outrageously priced bottles of pink champagne or fine scotches.
The world’s most expensive cocktail, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, is sold at the opulent Merchant Hotel in Belfast. For… [More]
7. Cow Poo Pill Being Used by Teenagers as Legal Party Pill - New Zealand Banning BZP
(thischick) It looks like the party is almost over and New Zealand party pill users just don’t want to go home. Debate is on over whether or not legal party pill BZP should be made an illegal substance and therefore banned. BZP has an amphetamine-like effect that users really enjoy even though the pill was orig… [More]
8. Paris Hilton in Nothing but Gold Paint - Rich Prosecco Ads (VIDEO)
(Bianca Bartz) Paris Hilton has taken advertisements for her branded beverage, Rich Prosecco, to the next level of sexy in the new campaign in which she appears wearing nothing but gold paint.
Like a golden statue, the high profile socialite stretches her slender body upwards to the sky, nothing to cover her mos… [More]
9. Spring Water + Alcohol = Smirnoff Source Looks Like a Bottle of Water (VIDEO)
(Heather Hobson) Packaged to look like bottled water, Smirnoff Source tastes like vodka with a hint of citrus, but is actually a malt beverage. It is being marketed as an alternative to light beers; it is lighter in taste, calories, carbonation, and alcohol. It’s also lighter than other malt beverages on the market… [More]
10. Personal Draft Beer Dispenser
(Tao) Draft Beer at home? It doesn’t get better than that! Football season is almost here and you want to impress your friends. Check out this counter top beer cooler and tab offered by Hammacher Schlemmer. It has a 5 liter keg capacity and dispenses your beer just like the corner bar. [More]
11. Drinking Shoes - Walk With Your Vodka
(Monnie) Ever get thirsty at the beach? Well, these sandals from Reef will help you out! They hold your liquid of choice (i.e. vodka) in the soles so that every day is better. Go to www.islandsurf.com and check them out. They are called the Dram! Cheers! [More]
12. Trendy ‘Spykes’ Malt Liquor Targets Teens
(Justin Good) Just as high school prom season is about to kick off, a new drink made by Anheuser-Busch has just been introduced and has created a lot of “buzz”. These “nail polish-size bottles of malt liquor, called Spykes”, come in a variety of flavors such as mango and chocolate flavors and “infused” with ener… [More]
13. Roberto Cavalli Vodka
(Em Rocks) Previously, Roberto Cavalli only shared his delicious ultra-premium vodka with family and friends.
He has now decided to open this treasure to the rest of the world. Hurray, and so say all of us.
The vodka is made from the purest water of the Monta Rosa slopes, using the finest quality grains grow… [More]
14. Diamond Filtered Vodka - £540,000 A Bottle
(Em Rocks) Diva Vodka is triple distilled, filtered through Nordic birch charcoal to purify then passed through a sand of crushed diamonds and gems.
Now this is the bit I love - adorning each bottle is an intense column of Cubic Zirconia gems, they even make special edition bottles to order with the CZ gems o… [More]
15. Portable Draught Kegs - Heineken Brings You 5 Litres Of Fun (VIDEO)
(Happy Hotelier) I wasn’t aware it is almost completely new, at least for The Netherlands, as it appears it was available earlier in the USA, in Taiwan and in France: The Heineken 5 Liter DraughtKeg.
We hosted a party last Monday and someone took a cooled Heineken 5 L DraughtKeg with him and installed it. I noted… [More]
16. Doggie Beer - Kwispelbier for Your Dog and Maybe You
(POPEYE) For beer lovers and thirsty dogs, there is now an option for hanging out together and sharing a brew. Let the party begin. According to newsbbc, “A small brewery in the Netherlands has launched a new beer designed to bring cool relief to thirsty dogs. Kwispelbier, marketed as “a beer for your best f… [More]
17. World’s Most High Tech Bar - iBar at 24 (VIDEO)
(Bianca Bartz) The world’s first iBar was installed at 24, a high-end Soho nightclub in London, and is already a smashing success! The $147,000 table tops have sensors that detect what you’re drinking, so when you can’t remember how many something-tinis you had, the gizmo will figure it out for you by scanning the… [More]
18. Luxury Liquor With A Secret - Gold Flakes Vodka
(Juan Rodriguez Villa) French Vodka company, Shaw-Ross Importers, is ready to take the Russian staple to a whole new level of luxury—by infusing it with real gold! The liquor is a fusion of purified underground spring water, 24K gold flakes, and some secret ingredients which the company has yet to reveal.
Luxury AND … [More]
19. Bacardi’s Exotic New Flavour - Dragonfruit & Raspberry Breezer (VIDEO)
(Bianca Bartz) Just in time for BBQ season, Bacardi has launched a new flavour for its line of Breezers. The exotic Raspberry and Dragonfruit flavour will be sure to kick your next backyard shindig up a notch or two!
For those who don’t know, dragonfruits come from the pitaya cactus. The exotic plant grows in Cen… [More]
20. Fake Beer For Kids - Japan’s Sangaria Helps Get Your Kids Addicted (VIDEO)
(thischick) Our good friends at Kilian Nakamura point us to beer for kids! Sangaria is a Japanese company that markets juice to children by encouraging them to think it’s beer. Everything about the drink convinces kids they are drinking beer, right from the packaging design which is in 6-pack format, the bottl… [More]




