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Craft herbaceous homemade drinks with simple syrup infusions
Elevate your tea and tipple game with some flowers and leafy greens.
How To Use Science To Get Better Bar Service
A study on how body language affects who bartenders serve will help teach a robotic barkeep to recognize new customers.
When Do We Break Up Someone Else’s Drunken Fight?
A new study examines when people decide not to mind their own business.
A Restaurant With Adjustable Acoustics
Fun fact: When the music in a bar gets 22 percent louder, patrons drink 26 percent faster. But if the...
Social Sensors Built Into E-Cigarettes Let Smokers Find Each Other In Public
Thanks to smoking bans in most states, cigarette smokers are relegated to taking their habits outside, where they can easily...
The Bar Is Open: A Slot Machine That Pays In Drinks
Gambling just to win silver coins can get boring. Instead, play for a perfectly crafted cocktail. The BarBot was built...
Harold McGee, Food Science Guru, Turns His Attention to Serious Drinking
At a cocktail convention, McGee and other experts unleash a cutting-edge arsenal of handy science
Driving Intellects and Quenching Thirst
PopSci heads to Nerd Nite to pump its brain full of knowledge and its belly full of beer
