Weird Alcohol Facts – And The Best Place To Get Your Drinks

Everyone’s heard about Drizly – the popular alcohol delivery service that partners with local shops so you can track down the best local prices for beers, wines, or spirits. Find precisely what you need without slogging to every liquor store or wine shop in your neighborhood.

But if you know Drizly, you already know that.

So, while you’re waiting for your Drizly order to arrive – in 60 minutes or less! – here are 7 weird and wild facts about your fave bevvies to contemplate:

1. Leapin’ Lizards or . . . Let My Gecko Go – Check it out: One of China’s most potent alcoholic drinks is Lizard Wine. Known for restoring your health and chi, the bottle contains a lizard – usually a gecko🦎. Although Drizly doesn’t carry traditional Lizard Wine, they do have Pipeworks Lizard King Pale Ale and Leaping Lizards Chardonnay & Pinot Noir.

2. Vodka is a great hair conditioner – Who knew? Mixing a shot of vodka in your conditioner may balance your hair’s pH and eliminate frizz. Your hair will thank you when it sobers up.

3. Pop! Goes the bubbly – Next time you break out the bubbly, watch out. 24 people die by a champagne cork each year. That’s considerably less than the 450 Americans who die from falling out of bed. 24 is also considerably higher than the 10 shark attack fatalities that happen each year.. Regardless, a champagne cork leaves a bottle at 55+mph, so treat that bottle nice and it’ll treat you the same.

4. It ain’t the gin, it’s the quinine – Hold a gin & tonic under an ultraviolet light and it fluoresces. That preternatural glow isn’t the gin, but in the tonic which contains quinine. So, the next time there’s an ultraviolet light party, get your glow on with a G-n-T, or two.

5. The early worm gets the bird – Most tequilas lack the legendary worm at the bottom of the bottle. Okay-okay, a few mezcals do, but it’s actually a moth larva. Ewww-no.

6. Shake it up, Baby! – Milkshakes originally contained booze. In the late 19th century, a milkshake was a rich, frothy mixture of whiskey, eggs, and cream. More like eggnog than the yummy ice cream-based, non-alcoholic shake we love today. Shake it up, baby!

7. They don’t call it bubbly for nothing – Each bottle of Champagne has an estimated forty-nine million bubbles.

We hope that made you thirsty, or at the very least hankering for Music City. We sure are. Drizly’s ready to help and so easy to use. Check this out:

Enter your address in the Drizly app to shop across local liquor stores and find the best price in your area. Then browse by ABV range, country, state, star rating, brand ownership (i.e. Women-owned, Black-owned, Latinx/Hispanic-owned, LGBTQ+-owned, etc.), and so much more. You can even get the whole party from Drizly, since they also deliver lemons, limes, ice – the works.

Whether you’re throwing a rooftop bash or spending a quiet evening handing with your pet gecko George and need a six-pack of your fave beer, a fine Russian vodka, or an exquisite bottle of bubbly, Drizly can get it to you – in 60 minutes or less.