Outbound: who wants to be taken seriously?

• Via Good Spirits News: Behind the stick - the Bon Vivant's Companion - a conversation with David Wondrich

  Wine is rarely mixed with Red Bull. The cocktail has a whole disreputable frat-house wing that keeps many from taking it seriously. On the other hand, who wants to be taken seriously?

• Via Edible Geography: Glacial Terroir // Mobile Libations. Ever wondered what centuries old glacial ice tastes like? Or which drinks are more popular on which parts of the NYC subway?
• Via the Atlantic: High tech drinks for amateurs and pros - 3 techniques, 7 recipes // Don't let iPhones and Blackberrys kill bar debates
• Via Art of Drink: How to name a cocktail
• Via just-drinks.com: SAB Miller takes a lead from Kevin Costner. In terms of floating breweries rather than taking $80m and turning into The Postman.
• Via Off the Presses: Is Grant Achatz reading cocktail blogs?
• Via io9: Tia Maria and the physics of getting liquored up. This may be the only mention Tia Maria ever gets here.

Outbound: try saying it when you're drunk

• Anyone who's entered a cocktail competition knows how hard naming a drink is. Apparently, that makes a subject worthy of the New York Times.
• If there's one thing bartenders love, it's setting things on fire. Unfortunately, in the 21st Century, that might get you sued - or arrested.
• The not-strictly-bar-related section: Apple juice improve behaviour in Alzheimer's sufferers; How to fuel a city; If you're going to the World Cup, you better be supporting the right beer (and not misusing your personal allocation of free tickets).
• Who invented the cocktail? Clue: it's not who you think it is. Also, Wondrich has new book coming out.