Jet Set Games wants to help you decide who’s picking up the bar tab. Its new app “Who’s Buying” is a multiplayer game that tests reflexes and sobriety to determine who will be paying for the night’s booze.

What challenges lie ahead?

The Wheel:
Reflexes floundering after a few too many? Sit back and let The Wheel decide your fate. Place your marks and watch as the monkey and his martini shaker decide Who’s Buying…and who still has his clams.

Multiball:
Up to four players can jump in this Polynesian-themed game of ping-pong. The first to let a flaming ball in their goal will find their totem in the woodchipper and their wallet empty.

Bounce Back:
Take control of a tiki and blow your coconut into your opponent’s goal in this Hawaiian-style air hockey game. Who’s Buying? Well, that would be the first person to swallow.

I’m  not sure I need this app, since my rule of thumb is you’re paying.

Who’s Buying (via Liquor Snob)

Dry Ice turns an ordinary party punch into a spooky Halloween brew.

Start with 2 punch bowls of different sizes. The smaller bowl will hold the actual punch while the larger bowl will hold the smaller bowl and the dry ice.

With tongs or gloved hands (dry ice can freeze your skin) , place chunks of dry ice in the bigger container. Place the smaller bowl on top of the dry ice.

There is no need to add extra ice to the punch as the dry ice will cool the punch nicely.

Just before serving, pour some hot water over the dry ice. Continue to add hot water and dry ice as needed.

Be very careful when using dry ice! Handle only with tongs or heavy gloves!

Do NOT put the dry ice directly in the punch or touch it with bare skin. It Will Burn! Dry Ice should also NOT be ingested.

Halloween Punch Recipes

1800 Tequila had a contest to design custom bottles–and the winners are quite impressive. Tequila with the winning designs on the bottles are now available in limited release.

The one pictured here is by Shepard Fairey’s Studio Number One. This one would look great on display at your Halloween party, no?

All 12 winning designs are pretty rad. Check ‘em out!

NOTCOT rounded up the winning entries in an easy-to-peruse way … or you can head over to the 1800 Tequila site and get more info there.

Creep out your Halloween party guests by serving blood-red punch out of this dispenser that looks a bit like an IV drip.

Some punches that will look great in this:

Bloody Black Currant Punch

Blood Red Sangria

Dragon’s Blood Punch

In My Veins Drink Dispenser@ Amazon.com

Nirvino’s new iPhone app puts reviews of over 1,000,000 bottles of wine at your finger tips. Never wonder be lost again when staring at that wine menu. Honestly, I never know what order. Nirvino’s new iPhone app can help you pick the right bottle for the occasion. Not only can you find the perfect bottle of wine, you can add your rating. If on the off chance they don’t have the bottle you are drinking, simply add it in. The Nirvino wine rating app is quick, easy and only $2 bucks. Two bucks for better wine choices?

This will save you at the wine bar, really!

Where do you I sign up?
iTunes of course - Nirvino

Summer is still here. And depending on where you live, so is the sun! That means it’s the perfect time for popsicles. Of course, we believe everything is better with booze.

Along with Savvy Housekeeping, we experimented with alcoholic popsicles (cleverly called shotsicles!). The results were tasty. Chocolate Bourbon and Tequila Melon were the flavors we triumphed with, but a few substitutions and you can devise your own tasty flavor.

Shotsicles have to be low in alcohol because alcohol doesn’t freeze very well. To get them to work, you need to combine the alcohol with juices and syrups, and even then they take longer than your average pop to freeze. But they are worth the wait–sweet and delicious with a tinge of booze in the background, just enough to give the popsicle some edge.

The result won’t get you drunk, but it will taste great!
Shotsicle recipes @ Savvy Housekeeping
More on Boozy Popsicles @ The Bitten Word

Photo credit: Savvy Housekeeping

This fall Pernod-Ricard has partnered with the Beverage Alcohol Resource (BAR) to bring the world an online version of their Bar Smarts bartender training, education and certification program.

Bar Smarts Wired takes one through 4 modules covering distillation, the spirits, mixology basics and practical applications of mixology. The $45 course is an amazing deal. You get a top notch mixology program, complete with pdfs for easy reading and entertaining videos featuring the likes of Dan Wondrich and Dale de Groff. The also student receives a very nice & complete set of bartools (pictured) and a bag to carry it all. Of course, Bar Smarts is not all fun, you need to pass 5 tests to graduate.

So if you got the itch to take an adventure in mixology, this is it.

Learn more and register:
Bar Smarts Wired