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Eight Different Robotic Bartenders.

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Dr. Wetbrain lately read an article that stated that the honourable employment of human bartenders will eventually be a thing of the past thanks to robotics.

“What, human bartenders will be history!” The doctor thought. “I would dearly miss the bartender pouring me the perfect cocktail that I like with a human touch and smile. You can tell this drink pouring human your problems with a kind reply in return. They would tell you a joke and light up your smoke. Oh, sure the robotic bartender can produce 200 drinks in an hour. I just want one drink with a friendly chat.”

Now this friendly bartender is being replaced by plastic hydraulic arms, perhaps a monitor and Alexa’s voice. The bionic bartender is so undesirable.

Of coarse Dr. Wetbrain had to delve into this phenomenon. Drinking research is his favorite thing to do. So here are eight different robotic bartenders.

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Makr Skakr is the number one maker of the robotic bartenders and has a Bionic Bar named ‘Toni’ onboard 9 vessels of the Royal Caribbean Cruises. This robot has the reputation of 3.4 million cocktails served, 120 drinks per hour with 160 different spirits.

Brought into the world in 2014 and you can buy one for only 99000 euros (99600 us).

 

Barney – the Swiss Robot Bartender

Created by Baronics this robotic bartender can mix you dozens of cocktails and serve you beer. You make your order with your mobile phone. Sanitizes its own plastic arms. Yours for only $130000 us.

 

Cecilia.ai

Cecilia the interactive robot bartender, made in Israel is designed like an arcade game with a digital screen where she cleans her virtual counter and tells classic jokes. Say your drink order and it’s made.

 

Robot Bartender

This high-tech bartender greets each guest over and over again with facial recognition and voice memory technology built in. Robot Bartender will take your order, mix and serve a drink in 90 seconds. You can rent this robotic bartender for any event such as a wedding, bar or restraint opening.

 

Brillo

Researchers at University of Naples Federico, Italy, designed a robotic bartender to have personalized interactions with you. Has 2 arms to pour drinks with a virtual screen that can make different facial expressions. Has microphone, speaker and camera to pick up customer’s body language and speaking. All for answering correctly back to the customer. Hopefully.

Yanu.ai

Very cool looking robotic bartender with style in its ability to mix drinks. Mobile and touch screen ordering. Serves cocktails from a recipe catalogue of 2000, takes payments, asks for ID and capable of conversation (probably Alexa).

 

Adam

Produced by Richtech Robotics in Las Vegas is the bionic bartender named Adam. Has fully functional arms for mixing, using cocktail shakers and beer taps. Adam also has a sensor camera with a speaker to interact with the customers. Can rent one for any private event.

 

Monsieur

This drink pouring robot is basically a box with a lovely touch screen to see and order your drink. The screen will show you nice pictures of the drinks you choose from a catalogue of 300 different cocktails in 12 theme packages. Even have a “surprise me” button for an order.

 

Rob

This robotic bartender took 6 years to make and is on most of the MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Co.) cruises. Not the Royal Caribbean Cruises, just saying. The ship’s bartender is a 3-D hologram with a 12-seat counter around it and speaks 8 languages. Very smart looking.

“All these robotic bartenders are quite impressive and fanciful. But the personal touch of a human is not there. I will miss getting served with a one and one interaction with someone. So, comforting. And do we have to tip these robots?!” Dr. Wetbrain concluded.

History Of Darts Drinking Game.

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Harold and Dr. Wetbrain play darts for drinks…. a lot. Usually when the useless cards are soaking wet with booze and always in Harold’s back yard, early in the morning. 7:15 am and the sun just started to lap up most of the hidden darkness of the summer morning.

Three empty bottles of cheap wine were lying on the crisp, morning dew which blanketed the un-mowed lawn. Half-closed dandelion blooms strewed everywhere.

The dart board is made from a 20-inch-thick, carefully chain-sawed old pine log. Throughout out summer as the pine slab got dry in the heat, the inner age rings started to crack. After some time, the old drunk cracks (Harold and Wetbrain) started using the aged wooden cracks as a scoring grid. Playing darts on this wooden slab worked out great. Harold and the doctor once used the back side of this pine slab. Unfortunately, Billy came over one day. The mooching little punk from next door came over to bum beer and practice his axe throwing skills.

Throwing his axe onto our carefully dried dart board. With deep gashes everywhere on the board, except in the middle, Billy wrecked one side of our precious dart board rendering it useless.

Once again, Billy was banned from Harold’s yard.

Now Harold and Dr. Wetbrain use the other (un-slashed) side of the dart board.

Harold kept losing at darts and taking his respective drinks. The doctor just kept taking drinks. Because he is…. Dr. Wetbrain, and he hates winning all the time. To him, winning at any drinking game is…. losing. “You don’t get to drink!”, he would yell out to anyone listening. Sometimes nobody was there.

Dr. Wetbrain pulled another bottle of wine out of the ice filled, galvanized wash tub. Filled both of their glasses and sat back down onto his old lawn chair. Eyes half-shut, the doctor looks at Harold who is sitting on his rickety wooden lawn chair next to him.

“You know, Harold?”, Doctor begins to speak.

Ten minutes later.

“You know, Harold?”, Dr. Wetbrain decided to continue.

“Darts started somewhere like (pauses) medieval times. During the time of kings, knights and Robin Hood. When these knights in tights became teachers of archery to their young soldiers, they would shorten some arrows and have the students throw them at the bottom of an empty wine barrel. Apparently, the soldiers took their shortened arrows with them to the local pub to show off their new skills. Also, to have fun with the newly found drinking game to be played with all the friends and wenches found at this pub. Serious darts never came into view until the end of the 1800s.”

“Harold…. did you know?”

“Harold?”

Little Ole Wine Drinker Me.

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I certainly love the talent of Kelly Gannon. A man after my drinking heart with his song and video “Little Ole Wine Drinker Me. The climate change story. Mr. Gannon draws great caricatures and newspaper comics all with good humor. Kelly also spend time with musical talents such as Chubby Checker, Paul Revere, Grass Roots, Monkeys and Herman Hermits.

“A little jealous of this Kelly Gannon. For I have no talent whatsoever!”, Dr. Wetbrain concluded.

IT’S OKTOBERFEST TIME!

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“Wake up Harold!” Dr. Wetbrain yelled at the couch where his passed out comrade was sleeping.

“It’s Oktoberfest time!”

Harold groggily sat up and mumbled, “What? That’s not till next month!”

Excitedly Dr. Wetbrain states, “The Bavarian Beer Garden season is upon us. Not only in Munich, Germany, but in other countries and cities you would not think of. We should check out about Eight Best Oktoberfest, Bavarian Beer Gardens in the world that I know of. Harold what are you doing lying down again. I want to tell you about these Oktoberfest’s that we are going to.”

1)    Munich, Germany

 Munich hosts the original Oktoberfest and has since 1810. This fun filled sixteen-day festival pours out seven million liters of German beer to about seven million thirsty visitors. This huge party is held from middle of September to first week in October.

2)    Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

This Oktoberfest is the biggest in Canada imitating the German style of fun, song, dancing and lots of beer guzzling. This festival started in 1969 and now brings in an excess of 700,000 visitors each year for nine days in the middle of October.

 3)    Blumenau, Brazil

This party also brings in 700,000 visitors annually and is boasted as the second biggest Oktoberfest in the world. This Brazilian town was founded by German immigrants in the mid 1800’s. The seventeen-day celebration started in 1984 and is held in the middle of October.

 4)    Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Cincinnati, Ohio claims to have the U.S. largest Oktoberfest with 500,000 thirsty visitors annually. The three-day event occurs in the middle of September which was first held in 1976.

 5)     Brisbane, Australia

With 37,000 visitors strong this Oktoberfest is the largest in Australia. In the first few weeks of October this festival is held on two separate, three-day weekends where gallons and gallons of German beer are drunk, and 13,500 pretzels are eaten.

 6)     Hong Kong, China

For more than 21 years this Oktoberfest has been held at the Marco Polo Hong Kong Hotel in the middle of October to early November. The entertainment, beer and bratwurst sausages are all brought in from Germany for the 1500 visitors attending this party.

 7)     London, England

This London, England Oktoberfest is spread out over six weekends at four separate locations of London. This party begins in late September and ends in the middle of October.

 8)      Prague, Czech Republic

In the spring, starting on the second week of May and lasting for 17 drunk days this “Oktoberfest” will take some time to recuperate. To satisfy the thirsty 10,000 seat venue, all the beers are from the Czech Republic.

Dr. Wetbrain was thinking. With proper research on airfare, lodging, land travel, an ambitious person can hit each of these great Oktoberfest’s, worldwide in one year. September to November will be very busy for you, but can be done.

Hangover and a Cure or Two.

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Hangover and a Cure or Two.

 

Both waking up at the same time, slowly lifting their heads off the booze-soaked table were sitting Harold and Dr. Wetbrain. Looking at each other cross-eyed, Wetbrain decides to tell Harold all about hangovers, again.
A hangover is basically a form of alcohol poisoning and has been around since alcohol was stumbled upon for stumbling purposes. Recently in Tbilisi, Russia 8000-year-old jars with wine traces were found.
What happens after a good drunk is your body tries to get rid of alcohol through peeing and sweating taking much of your needed H2O with it. So now your body can’t get enough water from its regular source, so your system must steal the water from other parts. Like your brain cells, thus creating a lovely headache. Dehydration also causes muscle cramps, thirst, dizziness and fatigue. Thus, the hangover.
The myth of coffee sobering you up does not work. That just keeps you as a wide awake drunk when you probably should be passed out.

Side note: Females easily suffer more than men. Apparently, they do not have enough enzymes to break down the alcohol as men do.

More Hangover Help Tips:
Time is the real remedy of a hangover and having some sort of substance in the belly to absorb the stale alcohol helps also. May I recommend ‘hangover soup’, which consists of browned greasy hamburger, canned tomatoes, macaroni, lots of garlic powder and water.
My favorite thing to do on a dreadful Sunday morning is to make a big bed on the living room floor. Lots of pillows, a whole bunch of movies lined-up so I can sleep watch them all day. Have gallons of real juice and tons of snacks just waiting for you at arm’s length.

Hangover Remedies:
As was mentioned, alcohol has been around for about 8000 years. Hangover remedies most likely have been around for about 7999 years, whether they worked or not. It seems like mind over matter on most remedies.
Here are some hangover remedies from around the world and throughout time.
* Romans (600 BC) ate cabbage leaves; they also ate fried canaries.
* Egyptians (3100 BC) drank cabbage juice and took medical papyri.
* Haitians (1500 BC) stuck 13 pins into the cork of the bottle of rum they drank night before.
* In Puerto Rico some rub lemons under their drinking arm.
* Russians use to swear by sliced cucumbers, also sauerkraut. I say have a toasted cucumber and mayo sandwich.
* In the middle-ages (500 AD) folks would have a plate of bitter almonds and dried eel.
* In the outskirts of Mongolia, they drank pickled sheep’s eyes in tomato juice for a cure. Appetizing!
* The old wild west cowboys (1865 – 1895) made tea from dried rabbit droppings. Yeah, they drank too much cheap whisky the night before.


* Green tea on the other hand cleans the system and urinary track. Ginger root tea settles the upset stomach.
* Try greasy, take-out foods to help absorb the alcohol that is still in you.

* Bananas or peaches – the liver loves the iron filled bananas and everyone loves the vitamin C filled juicy peaches.
* If you dare, try a blended raw egg and orange juice drink. Yuk! Where’s the vodka?
* Popping a few multivitamins or vitamin C always helps.

Final note:
Just to show what an epidemic, hangovers are, a journal reported that in the U.S. absenteeism and poor job performance cost the economy 3.3 billion dollars (us). In Canada the value is at 1.8 billion dollars (us). All from hangovers!

“Harold wake up!” Dr. Wetbrain yells. “You of all people should listen to this.” Again.

Oldest Wine Found In 8000-Year-Old Jars.

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Oldest Wine Found In 8000-Year-Old Jars.

 

Dr. Wetbrain was thinking one day about all the wildlife that enjoy getting drunk. Wild animals were probably getting drunk off fermented fruit long before humans did. Even certain dinosaurs probably got drunk. How long did it take for humans to finally enjoy the indulgence of drunkenness? Or got smart enough.

Recently archaeologists found 8000-year-old clay jars that proves humans were getting drunk since around 5800 to 6000 BC. In November 2017 archaeologists discovered these ancient jars that are around 82 cm in height and 41 cm in width and have carvings of grape clusters and a dancing man. These ancient jars were found about 50 kms from Tbilisi, Russian ruled capital of Georgia, near Persia.

Earliest evidence of wine found in giant, 8,000-year-old jars - The Washington Post

Scientists with biochemical analyses technology discovered that in the clay particles of these jars were traces of tartaric acid, Eurasian grape, malic (contributes to the sour taste of fruits), succinic and citric acids. All the important ingredients in the production of wine. This traditional Eurasian Qvevri wine making method is still used today.

At one time alcohol was used for commerce exchange which made wine invaluable to religious cults, medicine and society in general.

Dr. Wetbrain giggled to himself. The other day he read an article about Dr. Juan Carlos Marvizon Ph.D. giving a whole story on how humans are smarter than animals. Really!? Animals got drunk long before humans. Probably even fruit eating dinosaurs. Dinosaurs and birds have been around, getting drunk, for 235 million years. Humans 2.5 million years and getting drunk for only 8000 years. So, who was smarter about getting drunk first? Take that Dr. Marvizon!

Solitary Sot Series – Drinking Alone by Dimpling Alone.

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This is the last installment of the Solitary Sot Series which is dedicated to the Drinking Alone comrade. Who could forget the first drinking alone game of ‘Cap’. Then there was the energetic solitary game of ‘Darts For One’. We now conclude the Solitary Sot Series with a fun card game called ‘Dimpling Alone’.

DIMPLING ALONE

  Preparation:

Step 1

In the middle of table, place 3 cards down (face up).

Each card must be a different suit. If the same suit comes up, replace and burry old card back into deck. Repeat if necessary.

Dimpling Alone by Dr. Wetbrain

 

Step 2

Deal yourself ten cards (or how many you want). Do not look at cards that were dealt to yourself. 

Play: 

Step 1

Now the game starts with you picking up first top card…. look at it. If that card is the same suit as any of the 3 cards faced up, put that card down on that suit. Now there should be 2 cards on that suit.

2 cards = 2 drinks

Hang on to your seat…. the drinking begins. 

Step 2

Take another turn, one card at a time.

3 cards of same suit = 3 drinks

4 cards of same suit = 4 drinks

9 cards of same suit = 9 drinks

12 cards ……… etc.

Conclusion: 

Drinking alone, a solitary sot, is not a bad thing to do. First, there is no one to argue with, no one to cry on your shoulder, no one constantly talking forever without you getting a word in edge wise, no one bumming smokes and beer, no one vomiting on you, and the list goes on.

The additional bonus is when you finally pass out you have nothing to fear, like someone drawing on you with a permanent marker or shaving your eye brows. That’s what Dr. Wetbrain says. Awe memories.

Putin Is a Dink, Beer – Putin Huylo.

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Putin Is a Dink, Beer.

Putin Huylo.

 

Putin Huilo - new beer from Lviv

 

Dr. Wetbrain at the liquor store came across a 4 pack of beer with a very cool looking label. Had to buy it for research purposes.

Ends up that this beer is produced around the world due to the illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine which started February 24, 2022. A Ukrainian beer called ‘Putin Huylo’. Roughly translated as ‘Putin is a Dink’.

The words ‘Putin Huylo’ were heard first as a protest song towards the 2014 Russian attack on Ukraine. ‘Huylo’ means dick or can be translated as dickwad, dickhead and prick. They all describe Vladimir Putin to a T. The human atrocities and horrible illegal war crimes brought on by the tyrant President Putin. What’s wrong with this heartless idiot? Lots I would say. Even his family is pissed off at him. If you look up ‘dickhead’ in the dictionary, Putin’s picture is there.

Was Putin drunk when he thought of this invasion?

The Putin Huylo was originally brewed by Pravda Brewing in Lviv, Ukraine. And now this brewing company makes Molotov Cocktails for the cause. Sort of like whiskey distilleries converting to make hand sanitizers for the Covid epidemic.

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Pravda Brewery continues for the cause by giving their beer recipe to any brewery who wants it worldwide. A lot of the worldwide brewers are brewing the Putin Huylo beer with the original recipe and label with all profits going to the Ukrainian Humanitarian Relief. You can help by just drinking beer!

I tried a can or 6 of this strong 8% alc./vol beer. For research purposes only and of course contributions to the Ukraine cause. Pravda Breweries made the Putin Haylo as a dry hopped golden ale brewed with Pilsner malt, Cara Munich and wheat. The beer was very enjoyable, for strong beer. Had a hint of grapefruit flavour I thought.

Pretty much all liquor stores in North America are refusing to sell Russian vodka, wine and beer. That will show Russia that we are not fooling around.

Queen Elizabeth and Gin.

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Queen Elizabeth II and Her Gin.

Queen Elizabeth bringt eigene Gin-Marke heraus – mit Zutaten aus ihrem Garten | GLAMOUR

 

Maybe I’m thinking to much about Queen Elizabeth II and her Platinum Jubilee. Dr. Wetbrain thought to himself. But a previous post made me want to look a little deeper into her Sandringham Dry Gin.

This year at the age of 96 the Queen introduced from Buckingham Palace a fine gin called Sandringham Dry Gin. It is known that the Queen has a love for a Gin and Dubonnet Wine cocktail. Which consists of 2 ounces of Dubonnet wine, 1 ounce of gin, a lemon wedge and ice. Note: In the 1500’s, Queen Elizabeth I drank strong ale for breakfast. Drunk by noon.

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For the Sandringham Gin the herbs, citrus and other botanicals were harvested from the Buckingham Palace Gardens. 325 wild plant species on 40 acres. 250 species are flowers and to complement the garden 30 species of birds. Some of the ingredient of this gin consists of lemon verbena, hawthorn berries, bay leaves and mulberry leaves.

Produced by family owned WhataHoot Distillery and gin school. Launched in an old barn at Sandringham Estate, Norfolk, England. This estate was inherited by Queen Elizabeth 2 from her father George VI in 1952. Both her father and grandfather, George VII died at this estate. Only 8000 acres.

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This 42% fine gin sold in large 700ml bottles for about $50.oo, unfortunately sold only in the UK. Good to note that a small batch of gin proceeds support the huge Royal Arts Collection.

Sandringham Dry Gin is a regal alcohol beverage. Dr. Wetbrain drifted in thought. Only sold in the UK. I must get ahold of my connections to smuggle a bottle to me! Oh, did I say that out loud.

WTF. Alcohol Prohibition In Canada.

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    “Harold, warm up your truck and get your ‘Free the Alcohol’ sign out!”, Dr. Wetbrain yelled in a panic. “We are going to Raymond, Alberta. We are going to protest alcohol prohibition.”

“I will tell you about this town on our way. I’m driving!”

For over 120 years prohibition of alcohol is still alive and well, still lingering in North America. Canada yet!

Raymond, Alberta, Canada is a small town which has a population of 4200. 20 minutes south of Lethbridge, 240 kilometers from Calgary. Founded 1901 and named after industrialist Jesse Knight’s son.

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Since 1902 alcohol was prohibited in this little town. WTF!?

This year 6 out of 7 councilors voted No for public sales of alcohol in Raymond. The prohibition continues. The vote might have been influenced because most of Raymond’s fine citizens are of a certain church persuasion. Note: You still can drive 20 minutes to Stirling to pick up alcohol for private home consumption. Also, if you talk nicely or related to the town council, they might give you a permit for alcohol at a wedding.

“Wake up Harold were here! The town looks dead. The street is empty. OK lets just stand in front of this old garage station and loudly chant. Get your sign ready.” Dr. Wetbrain commanded.

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