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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, Insightful) by vistic on Saturday August 15 2015, @06:26AM

    by vistic (4958) on Saturday August 15 2015, @06:26AM (#223168)

    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.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by wonkey_monkey on Saturday August 15 2015, @09:44AM

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Saturday August 15 2015, @09:44AM (#223204) Homepage

    Never mind the crowds, what about the staff?

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    • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday August 15 2015, @11:55AM

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Saturday August 15 2015, @11:55AM (#223237) Journal

      Oh, they're the bristly leathery guys you usually see lying around in the Tube; they're immune.

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    • (Score: 4, Informative) by forkazoo on Saturday August 15 2015, @05:04PM

      by forkazoo (2561) on Saturday August 15 2015, @05:04PM (#223303)

      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

        by naubol (1918) on Saturday August 15 2015, @05:22PM (#223309)

        Hi,

        Would you please take your reasonablenesh to another post, it has no place in this discushion! (hiccup)