Booze News
• Whiskey Dick: Bourbon-Flavored Lube. Finally.
The brains behind Epic Meal Time have taken a page from their YouTube videos and figured out the only thing missing in our consumer-addled-slightly-alcoholic society was bourbon flavored lube. Whiskey Dick Old No. 69 is totally real and totally available for $11.99 a bottle. It is a water-based, booze-flavored massage oil that, according to the [...]
• UPDATE: Storm over beer-swilling bride
She had a beer. So what. Taranaki’s beer-drinking bride Katrina Hayman is bemused by controversy that has erupted after a photo of her drinking a beer at the Taranaki Bride of the Year competition was published in the Taranaki Daily News yesterday. Organisers have called for an apology, many callers have expressed their displeasure and [...]
• Beer-swilling bride sparks controversy in New Zealand
A front-page photo showing a contestant in a Bride of the Year competition taking a swig of beer has sparked controversy in New Zealand. Katrina Hayman, a pig midwife, was snapped by the Taranaki Daily News as 34 women relived their big day for the event. “At your wedding you’re relaxed because you have your family [...]
• Fernet-Branca Band Fest Contest Sends Winner To Pitchfork Music Festival
Winning Band to Open for Pitchfork Music Festival Act at the Fernet-Branca After Show in Chicago. Fernet-Branca U.S.A. announces the launch of Fernet-Branca Band Fest, a Facebook contest that focuses on viral fan interaction and partners the spirits company with the Pitchfork Music Festival. The program gives one winning local band with the most “Likes” [...]
• Shipwrecked Champagne to be auctioned
Champagne that has spent 170 years in a shipwreck on the Baltic seabed will go on sale in Paris in June. After an international invitation to tender, the government of the Åland Islands chose to entrust the auction of 11 bottles of Champagne to French auction house, Artcurial Briest–Poulain–F.Tajan. In total, 162 bottles (79 of [...]
• Shocker Alert: Pauly D Getting Into Liquor Business
Move over Bethenny Frankel, Pauly D is rumored to be getting into the pre-mixed cocktail business. The Jersey Shore star is known for drinking and partying, so doesn’t it makes sense for Pauly D to have his own cocktail line? Keep reading to find out why Pauly D might strike it rich with this liquor [...]
• Got $$ to burn for a $100 Cocktail?
One of L.A.’s most recognizable grand dames turns 100 on Saturday May 12 and marks the occasion with a $100 commemorative cocktail and movie star themed cocktail list. 10 special “These Walls are Talking” cocktails, available at the hotel’s off-lobby Bar Nineteen12 and the Polo Lounge, salute the Beverly Hills Hotel’s most notable former guests [...]
• Component in red wine may hold answers in Alzheimer’s battle
Bob Sessions has never had a drop of alcohol in his life. Yet at age 86, the teetotaler is eager to see if a natural compound found in red wine can combat disease. Sessions enrolls Wednesday in a first-of-a-kind government-sponsored study examining whether resveratrol can alter or delay the destruction of the brain in people [...]
• Maker’s Mark bourbon wins right to dripping wax seal. As it should.
A U.S. appeals court says a liquor bottle with a red dripping wax seal is the symbol of Maker’s Mark bourbon. An opinion released Wednesday by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says only the Kentucky-made bourbon can carry the distinctive bottle topper. The decision comes in an appeal by London-based Diageo North America [...]
• Underage Drinkers Buy Alcohol Online With Few Barriers
Underage drinkers successfully bought alcohol online in about half their attempts, according to a study that found the illegal purchases went through even when little attempt was made to disguise the buyer’s true age. Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recruited eight young adults, ages 18 to 20, to buy wine, [...]
• Audrey Sanders & Jim Meehan, NYC mixologists, up for James Beard Awards
When it comes to cocktails, New Yorkers don’t mess around. This year’s James Beard nominees for Best Bar Program include swanky Manhattan watering holes PDT and Pegu Club — run by Jim Meehan and Audrey Sanders, respectively. “Words can’t describe how honored we are to be recognized,” says Meehan, whose hidden cocktail lounge — which [...]
• A binge drinking machine? Mouth spray gets you drunk in seconds
A new gadget is designed to get people drunk INSTANTLY. The makers claim, however, that the ‘harm’ is limited, because you sober up equally rapidly. The alcohol is delivered via an aerosol spray, so people feel briefly drunk, then sober up. But however quickly people might recover, drunkenness can lead to accidents – and it’s [...]
• Out-of-state wineries can now ship orders to New Jersey residents
New license ends nine-year debate over direct shipping Wineries throughout the country can now, for the first time, apply for a New Jersey out-of-state winery license, providing the opportunity to ship wine directly to residents. Wineries, including those located in New Jersey, will be permitted, with certain restrictions, to directly ship wine to residents and [...]
• Mint Juleps, Five Ways For Derby Day
Ah, the mint julep. One of the oldest, most revered and hotly debated fixtures of the drinking world. The name originates from the Arab word “julab,” which was likely a medicinal rose water concoction. The modern-day mint julep, however, came about in the early 1800s. Frederick Marryat captured the mint julep best in 1839′s A [...]
• 2nd Annual ‘LA Loves SF’ Night At Big Bar featuring Tequila Partida
Cocktails made with Tequila Partida, the World’s Top-Rated Tequila, to be featured at Big Bar in Los Feliz during “LA Loves SF” Guest Mixologist Night. ‘Tales of the Cocktail’ Best American Brand AmbassadorJacques Bezuidenhout of Tequila Partida will represent San Francisco, mixing with Danny Long and Eugene Lee representing LA and Big Bar at Alcove [...]
