FOOD BUZZ – This sweet wine is the perfect summer drink, and did you know that it has 20% fewer calories than regular wine? It’s kind of like for the sort of people who think Olive Garden is authentic Italian food. But it’s actually kind of delicious. I can’t wait for the impending Zima comeback.

The Best Links:

1. Riunite Brings Back Lambrusco
2. Lambrusco, No Longer Tainted by Bad 1970s Reputation
3. Lambrusco is the New Rosé
4. Lambrusco on Wikipedia
5. Vastly Underrated Wine Is Perfect for Picnics
6. It’s a Good “Beginner” Wine
7. Communist Party Secretary Snubs Lambrusco

FOOD BUZZ – Drink holders that look, and roll on, like condoms which keep beer/drink cold. The perfect accompaniment to those twist n’ shots (aka greatest invention ever made) for your next frat party.

The Best Links:

1. Buy Them Here
2. “Great for Frat Parties, Peer Education Programs, Speaker Conferences, Sexual Awareness Programs, Spring Break, Fund Raisers and More”

FOOD BUZZ – Cointreau sells special instructions and tools to create solid iridescent pearls of Cointreau liqueur with edible flakes of 24-carat gold inside. It’s the future of booze! I’m still getting over the novelty of Jell-o shots.

The Best Links:

1. This Makes Me Want to Start a Laboratory/Bar
2. Seen in London’s Trendiest Bars and Restaurants
3. Cointreau Will Show a Select Group of 40 Bartenders How to Make a Caviar Cocktail
4. The Official Page for Cointreau Caviar
5. The Elegance of Cointreau Caviar Makes It Ideal for Weddings
6. Have You Had Your Caviar Cocktail Today?

CULTURE BUZZ – A simple, two-minute test that detects alcohol in breast milk so new moms can monitor the safety of their alcohol levels. Drunk babies are so annoying, with all their puking and slurred speech and whatnot. Now you can take the booze out of the baby, but you don’t have to take the booze out of the mom.

The Best Links:

1. For Moms Who Wanna PARTY!!!!!
2. Milkscreen Moms - Official Site
3. How Much Alcohol Can I Have While Breast-feeding?
4. Are You a Terrible Mother? Be a Little Less Terrible with Milkscreen

FOOD BUZZ – Chateau Thomas Winery revealed their new wine called Slender that has no carbs and no calories. I’m envisioning the ears of drunkorexic girls around the world perking up.

The Best Links:

1. It Uses a Splenda-Like Sweetener Called Erythritol
2. Indiana Winery Set to Unveil No-Calorie, No-Carb Wine
3. WikiAnswers - Is wine high in sugar? (The Answer Is Duh)
4. Official Website for Chateau Thomas’ Artificially Sweetened Wine
5. Leading French Champagne House Develops Sugar-Free Version

FOOD BUZZ – Just separate the skittles by color, add to vodka, let the alcohol absorb the color, and drain for candy-colored vodka. Taste the rainbow! Especially if you have any plans for getting gaysted.

The Best Links:

1. Perfect for Summer Cocktails
2. Making Skittles Vodka, Complete with Photos!
3. How to Make Skittles Vodka, Step by Step
4. Nice Photos of Marinating Skittles in Vodka
5. Instructables Shows You How to Make It

FOOD BUZZ – Japanese beermaker, Sapporo will be marketing their first “space beer” in November using barley from the International Space Station. They’re only making 100 bottles, which means all of us regular people unwilling to shell out more than $3 for a beer will have to stick to astronaut ice cream to get a taste of space.

The Best Links:

1. Japan’s Sapporo to Brew Beer from Space Station Barley
2. Sapporo Wants to Take Advantage of the Knowledge Gained through the Process
3. Researchers Foray into Agriculture in Space
4. It’s Basically a Gimmick to Sell a Bottle of Beer for an Exorbitant Amount
5. But How Will the Yeast Behave in Zero Gravity?
6. AFP: Japan plans to brew ‘space beer’

CULTURE BUZZ – Clip from a Japanese TV show features a monkey bartender. As the human race de-evolves, monkeys will one day inherit the earth.

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FOOD BUZZ – A seller on Etsy has crafted vegan soaps made from Pabst and Guinness. This is probably the last thing you want to bathe yourself with the morning after a vomitous night of binge drinking. But for any of you who have ever looked at a keg and wished you were soaking in it, bathing with beer soap might be the next best thing.

The Best Links:

1. Buy the Beer Soap on Etsy
2. Beer Actually Has a Broad Range of Uses, Including Antibacterial Cleansing Properties
3. The Soap Is Vegan
4. Bathing with Beer without the Hangover
5. Experimentations in Soapmaking: Sierra Nevada vs Busch Lite vs Blue Moon
6. Guinness Soap on Etsy (Sold Out for Now)
7. An Alternative to Bathing in a Keg

CULTURE BUZZ – Britain’s first Islamic pub provides a recreational place for Muslims to hang out and relax in, without the beer. Is it a waste to hang out in a bar and not get wasted? (Thanks for the tip!)

The Best Links:

1. Isn’t this kind of just a cafe with darts?
2. Non-Muslims Don’t Get Why This is a Big Deal for Muslims
3. The Daily Mail Article: Britain’s First Alcohol-free Islamic Pub
4. Does This Really Count as a Pub?
5. A Place for Karam (a Billiards-Style Game Played in Asia)