A Serving of This Peanut Butter Has More Caffeine Than a Cup of Coffee

It’s time to rethink your morning caffeine fix.

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Marijuana wine the next big thing

Kathleen Wilcox on the trend for weed-infused wine, here quoting Dr. Carl Ruck…
Though he refrained from commenting on the “advisability” of renewing the practice of brewing weed-wine, he did say that “cannabis would be one of the less dangerous additives” to make a comeback, of which there are a few other less promising entries in the wine fortification market.

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Pawpaws: The Sweet, Succulent Fruit You’ve Never Heard Of

A new book explores the history, culture, and origins of the curiously-named treat.

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11 Obscure Beer Styles That Are Worth a Try

Sure, stouts, India pale ales, and hefeweizens are tasty, but if you want to venture away from the beaten path for your next beer, give one of these styles a shot.

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How to Make Your Own Sriracha ‘Caviar’

People who love Sriracha just can’t seem to get enough of the spicy sauce. Now, thanks to food stylist David Ma and Nomiku creative director Monica Lo, they can enjoy it in a whole different way: In caviar-like form. Ma and Lo used a process called spherification to make Sphereracha—tiny little balls of Sriracha that can be used as garnish.

Creating Sphereacha was pretty simple: Ma combined two parts Sriracha and one part honey with 5 grams of sodium alginate in a syringe. When he dropped the solution into a mixture of 1 liter water and 5 grams of calcium chloride, a chemical reaction turned the liquid into solid spheres. After leaving the spheres in the calcium chloride bath for three minutes, he moved the "caviar" to a water bath, then used it to garnish everything from omelettes to potatoes.

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After this successful run, Ma would like to combine Sriracha with lime and oyster and soy sauces. 

The best part? You don’t need any special chef skills to make Sphereacha. “If you have the right materials and chemicals, really all it is is dropping droplets into a solution,” Ma told PSFK. “Anyone who can spend $120 on Amazon can learn this in an afternoon. It’s pretty much plug-and-play.”

[h/t PSFK]

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Geoduck, Anyone? This Is How You Harvest the Giant Clam

Shellfish farmers in the Pacific Northwest breed one of the world’s strangest sea foods—the geoduck.

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Your New Morning Brew: Beer Jelly

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Gin with distilled wood ants

Each bottle of Nordic Food Lab’s Anty Gin contains formic acid distilled from approximately 62 wood ants.

The formic acid from Formica rufa is used for self-defense, and is "a very reactive compound in alcohol." The gin retails for £200 per bottle.

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Would You Drink Beer Flavored With Live Lobster?

Inventive breweries are going to wild ends in their attempts to make beer better (or at least, weirder). We’ve told you about an ice cream-flavored beer, one made with real Sriracha, beer that’s been to space, and even iced coffee that tastes like beer. But this latest offering, from Oxbow Brewery in Newcastle, Maine, pushes the boundaries of what you want wetting your whistle. Their new brew, called Saison dell’Aragosta, is made using live lobster.

Tim Adams, co-owner and head brewer at Oxbow, explained to Boston.com that the quirky beer was part of a collaboration with Giovanni Campari, the brewmaster at the Italian brewery Birrificio del Ducato. According to Adams, the initial plan was to create "an esoteric German beer that was low in alcohol and used wheat along with barley." But first, since they were in Maine, they went for lobster rolls.

"Giovanni turns to me and says, ‘We gotta put some lobster in the beer we’re brewing,’" Adams said. "I was slightly taken aback and hesitant, but I couldn’t say no to him. The guy traveled all the way from Parma to Maine."

They purchased a dozen live lobsters and cooked them in the boiling wort—the pre-fermented mash of sugar and yeast that’s created at the start of beer brewing.

"We cooked the 12 lobsters until they were done, and then we pulled them out and we ate them," Adams said. And if you have some boiling wort lying around, you might want to consider making lobster because he attests that, "I grew up in Maine and I’ve eaten plenty of lobster. But this was the best lobster I’ve ever had in my life."

But what about the beer?

After finishing it with some Maine sea salt, the flavor profile featured "a balance between the sweetness of the lobster, the sharpness of the acidity, and the salinity of the salt."

If you’re interested in this crustacean-inspired brew, about 3,000 bottles-worth is available at Oxbow’s brewery in Newcastle, their Portland storefront, and select Maine bars and restaurants.

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