A new British bar fills its air with a mist of alcohol and aromatics:
For the past six years, Bompas and Harry Parr have been working with scientists to perfect getting drunk on vapor. They recently opened a pop-up in London where you can—you guessed it—inhale your intoxicant.
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As they enter, imbibers don a plastic poncho and enter a misting chamber. Bompas & Parr's mixture isn't a gin and tonic, really. It's a mix of gin—alcohol, water, and aromatic molecules from botanicals like juniper—and a bit of quinine, the bitter part of tonic water. (Tonic's other ingredients didn't make the cut—sugar's too sticky and citrus had, Bompas says, too many allergens.) As bar-goers lounge about, they're encouraged to breathe deeply, drawing in the smoky taste of the frankincense-infused gin.The air inside Alcoholic Architecture is at 140 percent humidity; the booze droplets waft around in a dense fog. Visibility is less than three feet. "It's a little like a masquerade," Bompas says. "It's also great for hooking up."
The article does not mention any provision for designated drivers.
(Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday August 15 2015, @04:03AM
What could possibly go wrong?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday August 15 2015, @04:05AM
You decide you don't like gin, even in your nose.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by captain normal on Saturday August 15 2015, @04:58AM
Of all the gin joints all over the world I've ever walked into...this sounds just like they all smell.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2015, @04:34AM
Well, I misread the headline as "British Car Gets you Drunk..."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2015, @06:59PM
I read it that way too.
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2015, @04:32AM
This is nothing new. [google.com]
In fact it has already reached the point where daytime medical entertainment shows are doing scare stories [aol.com] for their audiences of middle-aged housewives.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2015, @05:05AM
It provides the same effect.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2015, @06:16AM
The aromatic components are somewhat, uh, different, shall we say.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Saturday August 15 2015, @08:53AM
That would depend on which end is doing the exhaling I presume.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Tork on Saturday August 15 2015, @08:01PM
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Saturday August 15 2015, @05:08AM
Saw something on TV, prolly CNBC, about some startup that's using the same tech used in jet engine nozzles to design shower heads. Supposedly they can make you feel twice as wet with half the water by atomizing the water as it leaves the showerhead.
It was cool, but the bit sounded more like a press release than an actual product.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2015, @06:03AM
Delta does something like that with their 'H2Okinetic' [thesweethome.com] showerheads. I bought one and can attest that it works great - no moving parts, low flow that feels like high-flow.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday August 15 2015, @06:41AM
Here it is: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/water-efficient-shower-nebia-raises-more-than-13-million-on-kickstarter-2015-08-13 [marketwatch.com]
Sounds neat but that is one pricy showerhead. Great for Silicon Valley types to feel good about reducing water consumption.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2015, @07:01AM
I bet it doesn't work for shit.
When I take a shower I want velocity, that shower-head looks like it will create the opposite of velocity The smaller the water droplets the less kinetic energy they can contain, but they still have to contend with air resistance. Its going to be like standing in a really dense mist.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday August 15 2015, @07:17AM
If you can repurpose it to atomize alcohol instead of water, you can compete with Bompas and Harry Parr in your own shower.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2015, @06:59PM
When I take a shower I want velocity, ...
The best shower I ever used was while camping one summer, under a small waterfall -- water fell about 3 feet (1 m) onto the top of my head, in roughly a 6" (150mm) diameter stream. Volume also works--if you have enough volume!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2015, @05:12AM
You can't miss this one, dude.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2015, @05:55AM
I think I saw him out back yelling at some Latinos- something about welfare, Hillary's panties, then he just screamed "I'm a veteran!" when he fell over a trashcan.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2015, @04:20PM
He's at the methcloud bar in El Cajon.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2015, @06:02AM
While i expect inhaling *small* amounts of vaporized pure ethanol to be reasonably safe, can these people prove that long term regular users won't experience health problems from this, especially the additional flavor molecules? The linings of lungs and stomachs are very different.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by kryptonianjorel on Saturday August 15 2015, @06:46AM
Long term regular users of standard gin experience plenty of health related issues
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2015, @02:05PM
What you say?
I thought it was a known fact that British royal family members owe their longevity to generous application of oral gin.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by vistic on Saturday August 15 2015, @06:26AM
I hope they have someone monitoring the crowds very closely since this is an easy way to get alcohol poisoning.
When these inhalable alcohol things were in the news a while ago, the concern was that basically if you are drinking too much alcohol, you feel sick to your stomach and also have the opportunity to barf out some of it. But if you're inhaling it, it's pretty much too late and you won't even feel queasy.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by wonkey_monkey on Saturday August 15 2015, @09:44AM
Never mind the crowds, what about the staff?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday August 15 2015, @11:55AM
Oh, they're the bristly leathery guys you usually see lying around in the Tube; they're immune.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 4, Informative) by forkazoo on Saturday August 15 2015, @05:04PM
There is mention of the "misting chamber" so I assume the staff is meant to spend most of their time outside of the chamber. They say the concentration is such that one hour is about the same as one stiff drink, so it would probably take quite a while to get dangerously drunk if you weren't already topped up when you got there, or drinking liquid drinks in addition to inhaling. This specific bar may well be quite safe. The big danger might be when somebody opens one across the street that proudly advertises better value for the money, and they get into a concentration competition. Seedy mist bars around the corner would probably have completely uncalibrated mists, etc.
It sounds a bit like the prototype for mist bowls from The Culture novels. I'd certainly try it out if it were convenient.
(Score: 2) by naubol on Saturday August 15 2015, @05:22PM
Hi,
Would you please take your reasonablenesh to another post, it has no place in this discushion! (hiccup)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2015, @04:23PM
Marijuana? Cue Cheech & Chong.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2015, @06:21PM
Zaphod Beeblebrox and Roosta?
Body debit card to Worm Hole Disco...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2015, @07:02PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCXqbjo6cb0 [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 16 2015, @12:38AM
Dave's not here, man.
(Score: 1) by dr zim on Monday August 17 2015, @02:05PM
Absolutely. There are a number of loose leaf vaporizers on the market. https://www.paxvapor.com/pax [paxvapor.com] is a high quality variant.
(Score: 2) by albert on Monday August 17 2015, @06:05AM
The obvious thing is to check with a flame, because some idiot will do that, but what if the mix is a bit off? How close are they cutting it?