Irish Car Bomb

You don't have to be a terrorist to enjoy a good Irish Car Bomb, and it sure doesn't need to be St. Patrick's Day. Here are the ingredients for you do-it-yourselfers:

3/4 pint Guinness stout
1/2 shot Bailey's Irish cream
1/2 shot Jameson Irish whiskey

Add the Bailey's and Jameson to a shot glass, layering the Bailey's on the bottom. Pour the Guinness into a pint glass or beer mug 3/4 of the way full and let settle. Drop the shot glass into the Guinness and chug. If you don't drink it fast enough it will curdle and increasingly taste worse.

Special thanks to Drinks Mixer for their handy recipe.

Samuel Adams Cherry Wheat

I didn't get into drinking until long after your ordinary average adult. Early on friends would attempt to convert me to the cause of alcoholism by offering me flavored beer. Because I didn't like the taste of beer, they figured that these amalgams would appeal to me and act as a kind of gateway drug. It never seemed to work. Flavored beers always tasted worse than regular beer.

This truth about flavored beer held true for a very long time. Only recently did I disperse this myth, and only then with the help with Samuel Adams Cherry Wheat. Its like Samuel Adams mixes a really smooth beer with some really good black cherry ice cream, only it doesn't taste as terrible as an actual mixture of beer and black cherry ice cream would taste. It's got a kind of hybrid vigor, the best of both worlds.