Oddly Made Spirits (and a Couple of Beers, Too)

Quinoa Whiskey

For those of you who don't know what quinoa is, it's a grain-like protein superfood common to the salads and stir-fries of the health conscious herbivores of the world. Corsair is essentially using quinoa seeds based out of Bolivia to add an imaginative nutty taste to their whiskey, hopefully catching the eyes of quinoa-loving organic eaters and balancing out the flavors offered by the malted barley. Quinoa whiskey has an initial apple cinnamon scent with spicy dried fruit finish. It's pretty smart if you think about it. Next thing you know, they'll be coming up with spinach gin and Brussels sprout rum.

Sparkling Yogurt Wine

Yogurito is a fermented yogurt soda, and since pretty much anything can be fermented and shoved into a bottle, why not combine two refreshing ideas into one? With a surprising 16% alcohol level, this yogurt booze is just one of the many innovative ideas sweeping the world, as apparently a new generation of drinkers has appeared who get easily bored with classic things like baseball and red wine.

The alcoholic yogurt comes in plain and strawberry and is popularly mixed with ginger ale, milk and juices. Good luck explaining that hangover to your grandmother.

Snake Wine

Snake wine is the concept of infusing whole snakes into bottles of rice wine. Don't worry, though, venomous snakes are rendered defenseless when they're drunk, plus the alcohol dissolves their venom. The wine is popular in Chinese medicine, supposedly holding several medicinal traits, along with scaring the life out of small children. Snake wine is noted for treating hair loss and increasing sexual performance, so get your snake wine before Friday.

As an added bonus, if you have a friend with an embarrassing drinking problem and a terrifying phobia of snakes, this might slow them down a little.

RumChata

Sweeping the nation as of recently is the adolescent-friendly concoction, RumChata. Anyone in the mood for a fiesta will appreciate this rum-infused horchata with the sweet and delicious taste akin to the birthday cake flavored vodka. If that isn't sweet enough, RumChata can be used to make a number of delicious cocktails, including Cinnamon Bun, Cake and Ice Cream and of course, the Bananachata. Or it can be mixed with nutmeg to create the drink, Nutchata. If you are one of those who appreciates a good abbreviation, be careful when yelling out, "Who wants Nut-chats?" This sounds like "nut shots," which nobody likes.

Bloom Gin

All the refreshing scented things you love about your early mornings can now be added to the senseless, stumbling moments you find in your evenings. Inspired by the natural gardens of London, Bloom combines chamomile, pomelo and honeysuckle together for a citrusy, smooth and light tasting gin. Noted as one of the most distinctively refreshing gins, Bloom is best served with strawberries and a splash of tonic water in a sunny meadow filled with pillows and playful kittens.

Cynar Artichoke Liqueur

Everybody wants to believe they're doing right by their bodies when they throw back a few drinks. Luckily, Campari, the creators of bitters, has a new all-natural liqueur called Cynar, a combination of artichokes with several herbs and plants into one loving bottle.

The artichoke-based liqueur is picking up momentum in American bars with its impressive contribution to Manhattan-like drinks after several decades of being the quiet one in the back of the bar shelf. With about 33-proof contents to boost each glass it touches, Cynar is one of those classy, understated liqueurs that makes Sour Apple Pucker look like the pimply-faced adolescents of the drinking world.

Georgia Peach Whiskey/New York Apple Whiskey

Old Fashions just got a little easier to make, as the fruit is already inside its chief component. Leopold Bros. are small batch distillery set in Denver with three very promising, carefully contrived whiskeys, two of which feature delicious fruits from their respected regions.

The Georgia Peach is a real peach with ripened Georgia peaches. The whiskey is redistilled with the peaches once again before it's done to find its light, upfront fruit flavor matched by the delicious almond and honey taste. Any fan of Honey Jack Daniels will consider this a step up in their style of getting down.

The New York Apple has a big taste to match its big inspiration with heirloom apples of upstate New York, mixed with the refined oak and vanilla flavor kissing up against the refreshing apricot, raisin and toffee touch.

Shenandoah Chocolate Donut Stout

Men are creatures of temptation, and only the purest form of temptation, chocolate, is powerful enough to wield its way into man's other greatest temptress: beer. The stout is brewed as a double chocolate stout with both chocolate malts and actual chocolate. The Chocolate Donut Stout is exactly as it sounds: delicious and fattening. But at 210 calories it could be so much worse, as most stouts are in that calorie range.

And if you're ever in Oregon, the state's popular brewery, Rogue Ale, has teamed with the staple donut shop, Voodoo Doughnut, to come up with the Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Ale. Could be good, and it could be just gross.