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Can You ‘Split the G’? How Gulping Guinness Became an Online Phenomenon

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Beer as Theater If the earliest online videos featuring drinkers attempting to split the G date from around 2021 and 2022, its origins are definitely a bit older, with the first entry for the term showing up on Urban Dictionary in May 2018. If you had vodka and Coke, you wouldn’t take a picture of it,” she says.

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The Cult of Eisbock (and Why Most American Breweries Will Never Be Able to Make It)

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If you were a somewhat rebellious teenager and happened to replace some of your parents’ vodka with water from time to time, you may have discovered that alcohol and water freeze at different temperatures. Usually, the scarcity of a given style comes down to it being overlooked in favor of hazy IPAs, fruited sours, and candy-laden stouts.

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Remember When Campari Made a Raspberry-Flavored Clear Cordial?

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Sure, Guinness is an Irish stout, but it’s really just Guinness — nothing else will suffice. This was around the time the company also decided to start acquiring other brands, sometimes in other categories, like SKYY Vodka. There are few liquids that are essentially alcoholic categories unto themselves.

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