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posted by takyon on Saturday August 15 2015, @03:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the you-smell-like-gin dept.

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.

 


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by captain normal on Saturday August 15 2015, @04:58AM

    by captain normal (2205) on Saturday August 15 2015, @04:58AM (#223146)

    Of all the gin joints all over the world I've ever walked into...this sounds just like they all smell.

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