Have you ever woken up so bleary-eyed and unable to function that you can't even make it to the kitchen to mix a cocktail? Have we got something for you? All of the pros and cons of the comparison are implied by the fact that the Black & DECKER BOR is for mixed drinks.
The cocktail maker weighs 16 pounds and is 15 inches tall and has a footprint of 16 by 18 inches on the counter. There are six tubes that go down into the bottles of liquor you give. There is a sixth hose used.
The secret to the cocktail's success is its use of K-cup-like capsule to deliver all the other ingredients. Lime juice, sweetener, and orange flavor are included in a margarita Pod, but it is not triple Sec because they are non alcoholic. You put the bottle into the machine.
The brains behind all of this are a company called Bartesian, which pioneered the concept and which also makes its own dispensers. Bartesian makes more than 40 different flavors that range from the simple old-fashioned to the complex sex on the beach. You don't get a single freebie with the Bev and eight-packs of Pods are $20
If you asked me what a cocktail making system produced by Black & Decker would look like, I would sketch it.
The bar needs to be raised.
There is a photograph of Black and Decker.
Some of the device's limitations are exposed when setting up the Beverly. A Grey Goose bottle is too tall to fit in the machine's vodka slot, while a Patron bottle is too wide to fit in the hose. If the bottles are the right size, you can use whatever you want. If you want to keep it classy, you can pour it into a Popov bottle.
The Bev doesn't shake or stir. It dumps the ingredients at room temperature into a glass after which you can serve them. I initially put all the ingredients into a shaker filled with ice, then chilled them by shaking and then pouring them into a serving glass, but eventually I realized that stirring drinks in an ice-filled serving glass was much simpler and produced the same results. Some shortcut are not going to kill anyone.
This way of working is important if you want to be an attraction for a party where people make their own drinks instead of you. Provide general instructions and let your guests have fun with it by tossing a bunch of Bartesian capsule into a bowl. They will enjoy the light show and the ability to dial your strength, which can leave you with more than 4.5 ounces of hooch, though I would warn you against selecting the highest level, since it can leave you with more than 4.5 ounces of hooch.
Unfortunately the Bev can't do double duty as a push-button booze dispensers, where I could pull a lever and have a shot of whiskey or gin without having to deal with a measuring device. The machine doesn't work without a Bartesian Pod in place. A simple feature like this would make the device more useful than it already is. You can't add your own recipes to the system
Cocktails are hit and misses. I found the cosmopolitan to be the most accessible, followed by the old-fashioned, even though they all seem to be too sweet. The Long Island iced tea was pretty decent, but memory gets foggy from that point on.
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