by Treve Ring | Looking to up your brunch game? The world’s priciest pancake includes Dom Perignon Rosé Champagne hollandaise sauce and sells for £800.

It turns out that the hippest winery in Mexico is made of recycled boats.

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Becoming a Sommelier Overnight With Savvy Girl

Hi! Hope all is well. I wanted to reach out to see if you’d be interested in featuring my newest client, Savvy Girl: A Guide to Wine in an upcoming feature!

With a passion for learning and desire to be savvy, author and entrepreneur, Brittany would crave the knowledge how-to books promised to offer, but found them painful to complete… Savvy Girl produces beautiful 100-page guidebooks that readers can finish in 5 hours or less… Savvy Girl believes in cutting through the clutter by delivering guidebooks that help women get savvy and get back to their fabulous life… even throw out words like “terroir” and “tannin” like WineSpeak is your first language.

Damn. If I had only known about this before! I could have saved years of study and thousands of dollars!

Unlike the parties at your house, this bathtub full of beer is actually therapeutic. The Schloss Starkenberger brewery in Tyrol, Austria is reputed to be the world’s only beer-based spa, located in its 700-year-old castle brewery’s underground vaults. Here in the old fermentation room, guests can immerse themselves in a bath of warm water and Biergeläger (translation: beer making leftovers). The only benefit/drawback? Guests are advised not to drink from the pools. Yeah, that’s probably good advice for every pool.

Meanwhile, in Canada: Uberfist. A Canadian-based company is “revolutionizing the drinking experience” with their invention of Uberfist, a cup holder with “unique thermal properties” inside a giant Hulk-like foam hand, allowing fans to “cheer on their favourite team while simultaneously supporting their beverage. What more could a sports fan want?” I am left answerless.

Meanwhile, in the USA, powdered alcohol is now for sale. Here you go kiddies – kool aid, pop rocks and Palcohol. Previous versions of the Palcohol website reported that the flavoured powder could also be snorted.

Because New Orleans doesn’t have anything else to worry about right now, the debate continues about allowing booze in ice cream.

If spring’s sunshine has you tuning up your bike, you might want to consider these accessories.

An Australian news example of turning lemons into limoncello, Adelaide Now reports that commuters were “treated to the bouquet of expensive white wine” after a truck carrying 11 tonnes of wine collided with a car, sending $500,000 worth of wine down the road. Also, much later in the story, no one was injured.

Leave it to Lithuania to make it hard for me to refute that Beaujolais Nouveau tastes like paint thinner with this new packaging.