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BC RECALL WOODY`S Coolers

November 17, 2011

VANCOUVER— BC Liquor Distribution Branch (LDB) has recalled 11 products from the Woody’s line of alcoholic vodka beverages, and has suspended all sales of these products.

The public should not consume the affected Woody's brand of vodka beverages described below because the product may contain glass fragments, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).

The products being recalled are:

• Woody's - Pink Grapefruit 
• Woody's - Sasparilla
• Woodys - Mexican Lime 
• Woody's - Refresher
• Woody's - Vodka Cola 
• Woody's - Blackcurrent and Apple
• Woody's - Pineapple and Grapefruit
• Woody's - Pink Grapefruit 
• Woody's - 99 Raspberry 
• Pomtini Pomegranate
• Orangetini

In the interest of customer safety and in consultation with the supplier, the LDB is recalling these products after receiving confirmation of the presence of glass particles in some bottles was identified.

Customers returning this product to any liquor stores in British Columbia will receive a full refund.

Contacts:

Michèle Mackintosh
Communications Manager
Liquor Distribution Branch
604 252-3029
604 838-1105 (cell)

Tarina Palmer
Senior Communications Program Officer
Liquor Distribution Branch
604-252-3028
604 362-4984 (cell)
 

Connect with the Province of B.C. at www.gov.bc.ca/connect

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Grey Cup in Vancouver

NICKELBACK TO PERFORM DURING GREY CUP HALFTIME SHOW

"For proud Canadians like us, it's an honour to share the stage with the best teams in the league going head to head for the Grey Cup," band frontman Chad Kroeger said in a release. "With Nickelback based in Vancouver, and the game at BC Place, this is a home game for us, and we can't wait to play."

Quote from Canadian Press
11/5/2011 3:33:31 AM

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Grey Cup: Football Party Ideas

The 99th annual Grey Cup is scheduled for Sunday Nov. 27th. The game will be played at the new BC Place. You don’t want to watch it alone! Football, friends, food and drinks, all in the comfort of your own home—what better excuse to throw a great Canadian party?

That's the spirit has some awesome party ideas...

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Grey Cup: Football Party Ideas

The 98th annual Grey Cup is scheduled for Sunday Nov. 28 at 6:30 p.m. The game will be played at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta. You don’t want to watch it alone! Football, friends, food and drinks, all in the comfort of your own home—what better excuse to throw a great Canadian party?

DRESSING UP YOUR GREY CUP PARTY

Creating a fun Grey Cup atmosphere is easy to do, and worth the effort. Here are a few ideas:

• Encourage guests to come dressed in their favourite team colours or to wear football jerseys. 
• Wear a referee striped jersey as the host.
• Decorate your party room with tablecloths, shirts, jackets, hats and other paraphernalia in team logos or team colours.
• Add team and player posters, football equipment, pennants, and photos.
• Use white tape or chalk to mark off the yard lines from the curb to your front door—this is also a fun activity to do with the kids.
• Cover chair backs with team jerseys. Unless you are a huge CFL fan it may be hard to cover all the chairs with team jerseys, but even a few sports jerseys add to the atmosphere.
• Welcome your guests to the party by putting a sign over the door with your name as part of the stadium name (i.e. Smith Stadium, James Field).
• Set up friendly football pools to encourage even the non-fans to become involved. Create pools based not only on the outcome of the game but also more random results, like total points, “random square” pools and even the coin toss.

FEEDING THE CROWD

No grid iron gathering would be complete without snacks. It’s a long game, though, so be prepared to offer up heartier fare for your football crowd—especially if you are serving alcohol. Fun food serving ideas:

• Design a buffet to resemble a concession stand to dispense the food and/or drinks.
• Use items like football helmets, shoulder pads, etc. to hold baskets or bowls of food. (You might want to clean them first!)
• Try Astroturf on your buffet instead of a tablecloth.

Try these snacks and appetizers for an interesting spin on this year's big game.

• Bacon Bites
• Layered Guacamole
• Garlic Stuffed Mushrooms
• Steamed Mussels with Sambuca
• Grilled Spicy Chicken Wings

GREAT CANADIAN DRINKS

Football and beer always go well together, but in staying with the Canadian theme, try offering up some Caesars. The Caesar is actually a Canadian invention: It was developed in Calgary, Alberta, in 1969 by bartender Walter Chell to mark the opening of a new restaurant, "Marco's." Its popularity has grown and it is estimated that 250 million Caesars are sold every year.

Classic Caesar Punch Recipe

PRINTER FRIENDLY VERSION

• 6 oz vodka
• 36 oz Clam Tomato Cocktail
• 1 tsp Tabasco sauce
• 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

Mixing instructions

Add all ingredients to a large pitcher and stir to mix.

Rim glass with lime juice and rimmer. Fill glass with ice and pour. Garnish with celery and lime wedges. Makes eight 6-oz Caesars.

Pitcher of Caesars recipe »

Canada's favorite mixed drink is the "Caesar" and we have the perfect way to serve them to your guests and still leave you able to enjoy the game.

The Canadian Manhattan »

A true classic matched up with a classic Canadian game.

Hot coffee drink ideas »

Along with the standard coffee and pop serve up some spirited coffee and hot chocolate.

Caesar tip

Caesars are “pitcher-friendly,” and the ability to mix a pitcher of Caesars makes hosting your party even easier. To help ease that November chill, leave a bottle of Tabasco beside the bar for those who want some extra spice.

Watermelon Footballs

Bring a little fun to your party! Make your own watermelon football helmet »

Our city is brining the spirit of football out!!

It seems that everyone wants to get a piece of the Grey Cup celebrations.With just days to go before Sunday’s CFL championship between the B.C. Lions and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, the general manager of the event said on Tuesday that all the venue space is full.

“I’m sure this will be the biggest one we’ve ever hosted,” Scott Ackles said of what will be the 15th edition of the Grey Cup staged in Vancouver.

“This event is double the size of Vancouver’s 2005 Party on the Pacific [Grey Cup] — that’s what stands out in my mind,” said Ackles, who was also the GM of that event. “There are so many things occurring at this event.”

The full list of those events is available online at www.2011greycupfestival.ca. It includes everything from free, family events and concerts, a parade expected to draw 125,000 viewers and top-line entertainment at the Molson Canadian House in the Vancouver Convention Centre.

The most expensive event is the Scotiabank Show Your Colors Gala Dinner at $350 a ticket.

Forget about going to that event, though, because even though there were almost 2,000 tickets it sold out six months ago.

There will also be parties — including the traditional Calgary Stampeders’ pancake breakfast — and they will be staged in the streets, in bars and in restaurants.

The City of Vancouver has been a big part of the planning.

The Stanley Cup riots earlier this year resulted in the formation of a special group, the City Large Event Oversight Committee or CLEOC. Deputy City Manager Sadhu Johnston said CLEOC met with Grey Cup organizers many times to refine details of their plans, resulting in such changes as moving the Molson Canadian House indoors for better control of the event.

“I feel very confident in the work we’ve done to develop a really robust plan for the event and I certainly don’t foresee problems,” Johnston said.

“We have a really good partnership with all our partner agencies and the event organizers and I think it’s going to be a great weekend,” he said.

Drivers will see the first real signs of the Grey Cup festivities Wednesday with street closures in the 700 and 800 blocks of Beatty Street and the 100 and 200 blocks of Robson Street for setup of the Telus Street Festival.

Hamilton and Cambie streets will remain open for travel north and south.

The roads will reopen at about 2 p.m. Monday.

B.C. Place Stadium is also prepared for the event, with approximately 1,500 staff trained and ready to work at the event.

There were complaints about lineups getting into the venue Sunday for the Western final between the Lions and Edmonton Eskimos but Graham Ramsay, director of sales and marketing for the facility, said the key for fans is to use the appropriate entrance.

That entrance is indicated on their ticket.

Ramsey said that on Sunday more than 14,000 fans used Gate A to get into the building but just 3,000 went through Gate G.

So if the lineup is huge, try another entrance.

Concessions are also going to be well stocked, as opposed to a chaotic opening night for the refurbished stadium earlier this year.

Ramsay said the Grey Cup crowd is expected to chow down on 20,000 hotdogs, 10,000 hamburgers, 17,000 litres of soft drinks, more than 6,000 slices of pizza, well over 4,500 orders of nachos, more than 6,000 buckets of popcorn and 35,000 litres of beer.

Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/sports/Grey+celebrations+Street+parties+family+events+litres+beer/5752453/story.html#ixzz1epyQFCDS

How Stuff Works - Jack Daniels Whiskey-AWESOME!!

Cocktailz for a Crowd!!

Holidays have arrived and it's time to start thinking about entertaining!!


BC Liquor Stores has produced an awesome brochure called Cocktails for Crowds. It includes some great recipes that you can turn into pitcher's or a punch for your party.

 http://www.bcliquorstores.com/files/promotions/November%202011/bcldb_cocktailscrowdbrochure.pdf

My favorite is the traditional Captain n Eggnog....yummy! I have to be careful, I love them so much that they go down like chocolate milk. I have a couple tricks I like to use to make them a touch better. I keep my eggnog really cold by putting it in the freezer 20 minutes before serving. This way you can use less ice and prevent dilution. Watery eggnog is terrible. I only like to dilute my eggnog with Captain Morgans Spiced Rum!!

I also like to mix my nutmeg with a little cinnamon to heighten the flavor. If I'm feeling really frisky I'll layer an ounce of Bailey's on top and then sprinkle my cinn-meg on top! Yuuumy!

1 oz Captain Morgan® Original spiced rum
4 oz eggnog
1 pinch nutmeg

I also love the new downloadable Cocktail Recipe Book by BC Liquor Stores.... check out Winter Escape.

http://www.bcliquorstores.com/flippingbook/cocktailrecipes.html

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Christmas Cheer!!

On the evening of my Christmas party, I saw so many things:

12 guests a-vomiting

11 cousins crying

10 bowls a-breaking

9 policemen a-warning us about the noise level

8 ladies dancing. Naked.

7 cups of eggnog a-spilling on my $8000 antique Oriental rug (dammit!)

6 hundred dollars a-spent on bottles of RC cola that no one drank

5 RECYCLLLLLED GIIIIIIIFTS!

4 calls to the ER

3 mental breakdowns

2 stray dogs

...and Keith Partridge on my now broken TV

Hahahaha

Boozy Fun Facts

Anyone under the age of 21 who takes out household trash containing even a single empty alcohol beverage container can be charged with illegal possession of alcohol in Missouri.

 The entire Encyclopedia Britannica is banned in Texas because it contains a recipe for making beer that can be used at home.




In Saskatchewan, Canada, it's illegal to drink alcohol while watching exotic dancers.


The celery stick....came to be in the 60's during a party at the ambassador hotel in Chicago, As Bloody Mary's were passed around, the bartender ran out of swizzle sticks and one swizzeless socialite grabbed a celery stick from a passing tray and stuck in her drink. The Maitre D noticed and made it a standard garnish....


Tricks of the trade.......

Sipping your drink through a straw increases your alcohol to oxygen ratio which in turn gets tha booze to your brain faster...

Good news a strong drink absorbs slower than a regular one because the valve to your stomach closes from shock as soon as a high spirit proof hits....then it leeks in slowly!!

Carbonated mixers dilute your drinks but it actually increases your alcohol digestion by up to 70 %!! WOWSA!!

                                                                      Hair of the Dog!!!

The phrase first apperaed in English in 1546!! Originally referring to the medieval belief that a dog bite can be cured by laying a few hairs from the dog across the wound!! This cure was phased out based on the fact that is idiotic but the name carried on as a metaphor for drinking!!! hahahaha hilarious!

If you put a raisin in a glass of Champagne it will sink to the bottom and then rise to the top over and over again!

The term for an insatiable craving for alcohol is ``DIPSOMANIA``!!! Does that make us dipsomaniacs?

Ode to tha Soldier

Who is a Veteran?

Veterans are people who served in the military (U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard) in times of war or peace. Who do you know who is a veteran? Maybe it is your mother, father, sister, brother, aunt, uncle, grandfather, grandmother, cousin, neighbor, or teacher. You can be very proud of them. Many have given much to keep us safe and free. Man O' War Instructions Mix all ingredients in a shaker with cracked ice. Serve in a cocktail glass. Ingredients 1 Oz Curacao - Orange 0.5  Lemon Juice 0.5 Oz Vermouth - Sweet 2 Oz Whiskey - Bourbon

Try to imagine a bar frequented only by star-crossed lovers. A watering hole inhabited by couples doomed never to share each other’s lives — only a few stolen moments over cocktails. It sounds like a place that could only exist in The Twilight Zone or the imagination of William Shakespeare, right? Wrong. I’ve been there, even bought a round for the house; but to tell my story I must first describe an era in which the Cold War was still very chilly indeed…


Very cool article I found on Modern Drunkard Magazine....
http://www.drunkard.com/issues/01_07/01_07_cold_war_cocktails.html

Cold War Cocktail

1 ounce jagermeister herbal liqueur
1 ounce Vodka
1 ounce Sweet and sour mix
Fill With Red Bull



c/o http://www.cocktailsdrinkrecipes.com/cocktail-recipes/cold-war-cocktail.html



Army Brats!!!

Mint blog to check out Ladiez and Gentz!! Awesome old photos, more for the ladies!!!
http://glamourdaze.blogspot.com/2010/10/world-war-two-women-rosie-riveter.html



http://boxofficebooze.podbean.com/2011/09/09/box-office-booze-top-6-war-movies/

Very Cool Guys!! Any job that includes drinking and movies is okay in our book!!

So much more to come folks!! Keep checkin in!!!!!

Cheers
SipSum Cocktailz

Hops n Scotch!!! Mmmmmm Yummy!

What better way to warm your tummy now that the weather is changing?

I have attached some information for you to check out!!

The West Coast's long-running superior premium Scotch, Whisky and Beer festival is now the biggest combined Whisky and Beer festival across all of Canada. After yet another completely sold out festival in 2010, Foodconnect.com's Hopscotch Festival is ready in 2011 to impress Whisky, Premium Beer and Spirit enthusiasts alike.

From our humble beginnings 15 years ago as a one-night event exclusively serving Scotch and Hops based beverages, we've expanded Vancouver's tasting opportunities to include spirits, liqueurs and gourmet food in a week-long festival of events and tastings. The main event, our Grand Tasting Hall has been expanded to three nights and four tastings, and we continue to add more exciting Satellite Events over six days of festivities... You might want to call in sick that week

Each year the festival improves its educational component by giving enthusiasts the opportunity to learn, sip, and taste only the highest quality of liquors and premium beers. With more than 250 products available to taste, sample and discover — don’t miss this unique occasion of being able to truly experience some of your favorite brands and their world renowned brand ambassadors.

In the weeks leading up to Hopscotch 2011 we'll be adding all sorts of Satellite Events and Master Classes to this year's program. Offering a variety of topics and tasting opportunities, from whisky and beer pairing dinners to brewery tours to cigar samplings to BBQ parties — our events and classes tend to sell out quickly!

http://www.hopscotchfestival.com/vancouver/grand-tasting-hall

Location: Rocky Mountaineer Train Station

1755 Cottrell St., Vancouver (just off Terminal Ave, by the Home Depot)

Dates: November 14-20, 2011

LMFAO Making their mark on Halloween!!! Party people in this house tonight!!!!

We love this!! Saw it on breakfast television!!

Concert Listing

Tuesday 25th October 2011
Foo Fighters	Rogers Arena	Vancouver Downtown	Alt-rock
Matt Nathanson	Venue	Granville Entertainment District, Vancouver Downtown	Folk-rockSinger-songwriter
SBTRKT	Fortune Sound Club	Chinatown	DanceElectronica
Warren Haynes Band	Showbox at the Market		BluesBlues-rockJam
Alexander Weimann	Cory Weeds' Cellar Jazz Club	Kitsilano
Live Wire Tuesdays	Yale Hotel	Vancouver Downtown
DJs Wood 'n' Soo	Backstage Lounge	Kitsilano
Malcolm and the Moonlight, 41st & Home	Biltmore Cabaret	Mount Pleasant
Vancougar, Discreet, Sister Says	Media Club	Vancouver Downtown
Slow Wave Saga, the Niche	The Roxy	Vancouver Downtown
Colin Godbout	Naam	Point Grey
Fathoms, Matt Paxton, Rec Centre	Railway Club	Vancouver Downtown

Booze-O-Meter

We were sent this by email and thought it rude we didn't share....

http://www.celebrations.com/drinkcalculator

Celebrations.Com is a website you don't want to miss out on. Recipes that rock, party ideas, and decor that makes it all happen!! Not to mention a Booze-O-Meter!! hahahahahaha

Cheers

Lulu Island's First Ever Fall Festival

Lulu Island Winery started off as a small winery just out of the way on 6 Road and, for any of you that know Richmond, this little ditty is located on a highly traveled road. The majority of those travelling are commuters and not looking to stop off for a wine tour.

The winery hosted the China House for the Olympics, 
but after that they didn't develop the room much. The last time we went to visit, it was a large empty venue. From what I understand the room was used every so often, but definitely not to its true capability. The room had gorgeous bold colors and was highly under looked. Now of course I am only going by what I've heard from our local resources and what I've witnessed.
This room has some serious potential and I look forward to see them grow.

We receive their newsletters every month or so and they have a great membership program where the member receives a small bonus of 10% off. They also have a line of wines unique to Richmond such as their delicious Blueberry Wine and one of my fav's the Raspberry Wine.






Were also happy to report, they are also celebrating their first GOLD for their Reisling Chardonnay Icewine....



So........ Celebrate The Fall Festival October 29-30 11am-6pm!! I can't think of a better time to check out their digs and have a few swigs!!

16880 Westminster Highway
Richmond, BC V6V 1A8
(604) 232-9839

Hours: Sun-Sat 10am-6:30pm

Not to shabby for a small winery off the beating track...


Cheers
SipSum Cocktailz

MMMMM Passionfruit Hibiscus Oasis!~

Just when we thought Palm Bay was doing well they came out with a new flavor! Even though a seasonal addition they went and added an extra bonus...Their supporting breast cancer survivors.

Just in time for Breast awareness......those smart cookies!

Now if they could only stay on top of their website!!

Cheers
SipSum Cocktailz

OJs....Almost seems criminal!!!

Original Joe's has half price bottles of wine Thursday nights....and it's not one of those specials where it's limited to a small list of some over purchased cases that their trying to flog.....It's their entire wine list!

We dropped by after a long day of school, work and household chores...we happen to be near the Broadway location and decided to stop in for a quick cocktail!!

We were pleasantly surprised after a very long day to great service, great food, great wine and a great atmosphere!!!

So folks to keep you in on some of our fav's to save in your places to play we had to share this lil ditty for the wine lover!!

Cheers!!
Keep on Sippin!!