Watch this cool video for a bit of a lesson on what happens when you get drunk.
Author: Peter Cutforth
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Drinking Mistakes We Should Avoid
According to an article on The Business Insider website, there are 8 drinking mistakes we should avoid at all costs. These include:
- Pouring your own drinks in public
- Waving down the bartender
- Showing up empty handed to a party
- Using tacky cocktail umbrellas
- Mixing alcohol with energy drinks
- Putting the ice in your drink last
- Pouring beer from the wrong angle
- And possible the worst – Drinking too much!
Source: Business Insider
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Does Your Drinking Affect Your Work?
After a survey recently revealed that 100 million hours are being lost every month in Australia due to hangovers, the question has emerged ” does your drinking affect your work?”
According to a survey sponsored by Dry July one in five Australians had taken a sick day in the past year in order to recover from a hangover.
There’s nothing wrong with enjoying a drink or two but don’t binge drink or allow your drinking to interfere with your everyday life and work. This is one of the reasons Responsible Service of Alcohol legislation was implemented, so that harm caused by binge drinking could be minimised.
Read more here.
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Bar Owner on Trial After Man Drinks Himself to Death
An incident that happened in a French bar takes the idea of Responsible Service of alcohol to whole new level. A man has been charged after a patron at his bar ” drank himself to death”.
The man, only known as Renaud, was at the Le Starter bar in Clermont-Ferrand, in central France when he allegedly tried to beat the bar’s previous record of 55 shots.
Unfortunately he died due to alcohol poisoning after being spurred on by the bar owner who is now being charged with the man’s death.
Make sure you/ your staff have received RSA training so the same thing doesn’t happen to you.
Read more about it here.
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An Idea to Stop Binge Drinking
If you could stop binge drinking with a simple fix, would you?
Polo-loving New Yorkers gathered over the weekend to enjoy the 8th annual Veuve Clicquot Polo in the Park but were limited to only 5 drinks in an effort to curb binge drinking, and the behaviour that usually follows it.
Is this a policy that could work for other events and even at certain venues? Is this an ingenious way to ensure we never have to endure the embarassing behaviour of that binge drinker that inevitably makes it into every occasion?
Interested? Find out more here.
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Could Beer Our Generation’s New Wine
It seems that beer is evolving from the old-fashioned ale our grandfathers use to drink into something more complex, sophisticated and elite.
Craft beers are the new popular drinks among the trendy and according to a writer on British website The Mirror.co.uk we may actually have been drinking it wrong all these years.
See more about it here.
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Discover More About Your Favourite Drink
Wine is probably the most popular alcoholic drink in the world and many people claim to know a lot about it. Here are some facts about wine that you probably didn’t know.
Wine was first discovered in The Middle East, almost 6000 years ago.
Wine is thought to first have been made/ fermented by mistake.
Excess wine has been used to make biofuel to power motor cars.
Find out more interesting wine facts here.
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How Much Alcohol and Caffeine Should we Drink?
There has been a major shift in the way we think about alcohol and coffee recently. In the past all we heard was how bad these things were for us, now we are hearing more and more about the benefits of moderate alcohol and caffeine consumption.
But this still leaves us with the question, how much should we be drinking?
This article on Forbes explains more.
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Common Wine Myths Debunked
Enjoy a glass of wine without falling victim to any of the commonly held misconceptions about wine.
An article on HospitalityMagazine.com.au aims to debunk some of the stereotypes that surround wine.
1. Wine Must be Vintage to be Quality
Vintage wine is not necessary better than non-vintage. Vintage champagne usually is more expensive than non-vintage which is where the idea probably comes from.
2. Champagne Doesn’t Age Well
Champagne does age well if it is carefully cellared in a cool, dark place. In fact some vintages can be aged for decades. While it may lose its effervescence, it may take on a delicious complexity of flavour.
3. Champagne Must be Drunk Out of a Champagne Flute Glass
The post on HospitalityMagazine.com.au explains:
The jury’s out on this one. In 2012, scientists from the University of Reims wrote that flutes were better than wide shallow coupes because higher levels of carbon dioxide collect at the top of the glass, giving rise to the tingling sensation that Champagne drinkers love. But have you considered using a large, big-bowled glass such as a Burgundy glass? It allows the beautiful aromatics to be savoured, enhancing the drinking pleasure.
Source: www.hospitalitymagazine.com.au
4. Red Wine will Give You a Headache
Some people think red wine will give you more of a headache than white wine. Although they can cause an allergic reaction for some people, red wines generally have less added sulfites than white wines.
Most headaches are actually caused by excessive consumption, which can happen with any alcohol. When consumed excessively, alcohol leads to dehydration which causes headaches.
5. You Must Drink Red Wine with Meat and White Wine with Seafood
The article states:
Not necessarily. It’s more important to look at a dish’s intensity of flavours and the sauce used. A tomato-based fish stew, for example, pairs more easily with a Spanish red like Tempranillo than it does with a white.
Big flavours require big wines; more restrained dishes call for more restrained wines. Although a bold red might not match a delicate piece of fish, meatier fish such as swordfish or tuna can work beautifully with a light red like Beaujolais while pan-fried salmon pairs nicely with Pinot Noir. Pork and veal match equally well with red or white, depending on the dish. Flavours, aromas and textures matter; colour doesn’t.
Source: www.hospitalitymagazine.com.au
6. Cheese and Wine are the Perfect Match
Some cheeses may actually mask the the nuances of a good wine. White, fortified and sparkling wines are commonly better matches for soft cheese than red wine, the writer warns. Its best to add some bread, dried fruit, nuts and crackers to the mix.
7. You can Only Refridgerate White Wine if Left Over
All wine should be consumed as soon as possible after opening but if you must refridgerate red and white will be preserved the same.
8. Cork tops indicate a Better Quality
Screw caps don’t necessary mean cheap, especially in Australia.
9. “Legs” indicate a Good Wine
Legs are the streaks that run down the inside of the glass when you twirl it. There is a misconception that wine with legs are better. Legs indicate alcohol content and not quality.
10. The Smaller the Winery, the Better the Wine.
It’s a romantic notion so sorry to disillusion you, but bigger wine producers benefit from more resources (financial and otherwise), winemaking talent and economies of scale. It’s feasible for large companies to make boutique-style wines within the context of a mass-production facility. (Not that they all do; we’re talking about what they can do.) Yet people love the stories that go with family-run, boutique and heritage wineries, and diners are generally reluctant to order a wine that they can easily find at the bottle shop next door.
Source: www.hospitalitymagazine.com.au
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Wild Turkey Announces New Cocktail Competition
Fancy the chance to meet master distillers, Jimmy and Eddie Russell, well if you win Wild Turkey’s new competition, you could.
To celebrate the Australian launch of its Russell’s Reserve Single Barrel bourbon, Wild Turkey announced a new industry cocktail competition.
To enter the competition, your venue must stock Russell’s Reserve 10 Year Old and create a signature cocktail based on the theme ‘Modern American Classic’. You must use Russell’s Reserve 10 Year Old or Russell’s Reserve Single Barrel in the cocktail.
Source: Hospitality Magazine