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How To Make Simple Syrup

Here’s a great post from cooklikeyourgrandmother.com demonstrating a quick and easy way to make simple syrup.

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The Best Guinness Beer Commercial Ever

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The 5 Most Fattening Alcoholic Drinks Ever

This is another installment by our guest blogger Meghan Chiampa. As soon as we get off our asses we’re planning on getting her a log in so she can become a normal contributing writer. What can I say? Nathan’s lazy:) You can check out more of Meghan’s work at her own blog here

Believe it or not, most alcoholic drinks are very unhealthy. However, some are worse than others. Many drinks will do little more than give you some nice padding that will slowly seep out of the tops of your favorite hip-huggers. Other drinks, if taken to the extreme, will basically liquefy your liver over time. That’s one of the reasons it pains me to write this list because I absolutely adore some of these evil little bastards.

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How To Make Green Beer

Happy St. Patty’s Day! I love this holiday because it’s one of the few days it’s okay to be a raging alcoholic or to pretend to be Irish which are basically the same thing. Another St. Pattys day tradition is drinking green beer. Unfortunately you can’t buy green beer at the local Quickee Mart. In light of this fact I pulled out my McGuyver manual and found out how to make my own green beer.

It’s actually pretty easy. First you have to buy some beer. I recommend a lighter beer since green Guinness just looks gross. Pour the beer into a glass and add a few drops of green food coloring to make it as dark or light as you want. Stir, drink and enjoy having a green tongue for the rest of the day. Yep. That’s it. If you cant pull this maneuver off then your either Irish or too drunk.

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Tips For Drinking On A Diet

Editors Note: This is another submission by Meghan Chiampa. If you think you have what it takes to write for The Drunk Pirate, send your submission to James@thedrunkpirate.com

Are you a Junior who’s still trying to shed that Freshman 15? Here are five drinks and a few tips that will help you keep you from tipping the scales while you get your drink on.

Before we get down to brass tax, here are some general tips: The juice in bars is usually from concentrate, so try to find alternative mixers like cranberry. And if you are going to drink soda, stay with diet and ginger ale. Another thing to remember is tonic water has calories, while seltzer doesn’t.

That being said, there really are no super miracle low-calorie, low-carbohydrate drinks. As I’ve mentioned before booze is super sugar, so you aren’t really going to find many drinks under 80 calories.
Here are some low cal/good for you cocktails I enjoy.

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