Booze News: New Nautella Stout, Spicy Fest Drinks, and More
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Feeling thirsty? Wet your whistle with Booze News, our weekly wrap-up of the week's best bar deals, parties, drink concoctions, industry gossip, and more.
New Dessert Beer and Discounts at Slow Boat
Slow Boat brings us two indulgences in one with their new Nautella Imperial Milkshake Stout (Nutella + Slow Boat = Nautella, geddit?). The strong (8.2 percent) "dessert beer" has dark chocolate and hazelnut notes and a creamy mouthfeel, making for a hearty stout that tastes like everybody's favorite chocolatey spread and a milkshake all in one.
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Open Your Palette With Jing-A's Gaige Kaifang
Xingfucun brewers Jing-A have just released this year's batch of Gaige Kaifang Triple IPA, a brew whose name refers to China's "Reform and Opening Up" economic program. With a frankly indecent ABV of 12 percent, the IPA is supposed to "reform your palette," (or liver), "and open up your mind to new hoppy possibilities" with a dose of bitter orange marmalade, grapefruit peel, black pepper, and licorice. Undeterred by the potential for an unmanageable bar full of paralytic Gaige Kaifang-drinking animals, the Jing-A Crew go on to say that "on the palette, resinous hops, and a spicy bite of alcohol rule over the rich and chewy malt."
Aside from the Gaige Kaifang, Jing-A is also promoting the latest in their “Death By...” series in which they meld low bitterness beers with a fruit of their choosing. This time it's passionfruit that gets the treatment. The result? Death by Passionfruit hazy pale ale, a veritably juicy and sweet sipper. Both beers are now on tap.
Side Street Launches New Cocktail Menu
Although most patrons of hutong bar and restaurant Side Street pop in to lay down a solid foundation of brews and burgers before heading off elsewhere, the Jiaodaokou bar's new array of cocktails may convince people to stick around long into the night. Highlights include the very reasonably priced whiskey-based Silk Road (RMB 65) made with scotch, mandarin oranges, sweet vermouth, and cherry liqueur; a rum-based mango lassi (also RMB 65); an espresso martini (RMB 55), and more. If you're desperate to try them all in one sitting, we recommend visiting on Thursdays, when all cocktails will be buy one, get one free.
What to Sip at This Weekend's Hot & Spicy Fest
Finally, while food is certainly the focal point of this weekend's Hot & Spicy Fest, there will also be plenty of delicious beers, cocktails, ciders, and innovative spirits on offer and to cool off your tastebuds in between bouts of spicy binges. Below you'll find a rundown of what drinks (some spicy, some not so spicy) will be on offer (in alphabetical order):
The Bell & Terrazza Martini's Borgona Chilean drink
Billy's spicy mojitos
Boxing Cat Brewery's Vienna lager and Tripple Layer Dream IPA
Brewonly's Munich brewery beer
Cheers' Sangria Scorcher red and white wines
Jing-A's Guizhou smoked chili porter
Kavkaz Restaurant's Azerbaijani red wines
Legend Beer's craft beers
Lianglu's lime and fruity baijiu
Nao's Cityson Highball baijiu
NBeers Niubi Wheat
Pachapapi's pisco sour
Panda Brew's Eyes Wide Shut coffee stout
Ping Dynasty's Ping Dynasty and Ping Bang ciders
QS' chili coconut mojitos and spicy sangrias
Steamrhino Brewing's craft brews
Urbrew's Holiday Wheat Beers
Vedett's spicy cocktail
Cheers and see you at Galaxy Soho tomorrow!
READ: Hot Mama! Behold This Weekend's Supremely Hot & Spicy Entertainment
Photos courtesy of the bars, Uni You
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