Have you ever hosted a house party and needed some cool drink ideas to serve? Have you ever been at a bar, and asked for a chocolate cake, only to be looked at with complete bewilderment? Right now I have a bottle of Vodka in my freezer, and my cranberry and orange juice is gone. I know there are other drinks I can make, but none immediately came to mind. Does vodka go with ginger ale?

So I visited BuzzShout and typed “drink” into the search box. One of my results was a site called Extra Tasty!, which helps you find great drink recipes and figure out what you can make from the different ingredients you’ve got. I felt I was meant to find the site tonight since the “Drink of the Day” on the front-door to the site was made with my favorite soda, ginger ale. A tag cloud on the sidebar makes it easy to find drinks with your alcohol or ingredient of choice.

With the “My Bar” functionality you can list the ingredients you have available and figure out what drinks you can make with them. I did experience a problem with the site when I went to the “Full ingredient list”, where I was supposed to be able to add a lot more ingredients to the list that the site already provided. I wasn’t able to click on the plus icons next to different items to add them to “My Bar” because there were no icons there to click on. That might have been due to my browser, but I did see plus icons on the sidebar under “People’s commonly added items”. I’d like to know if others aren’t able to see the icons on the full list.

The coolest feature is the SMS search which I haven’t tried yet. However, I was able to try it from a demo on the site to better understand the use. You can type a SMS text keyword such as “Vodka” into your cell phone and send it to 82789 (fees may apply). Here is what you’ll get back:

” 68 results for vodka. The top rated drink is the Malibu Sunset : Prepare a glass full of ice then add the Coconut rum, next add the Cranberry juice.”

A very useful function if you want to impress a certain somebody at the bar by sharing some drink ideas. So if you drink, and you’re looking for some new ideas, check out Extra Tasty!, and tell us what you think.

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