Booze News
• Who wants to drink dessert-like vodka? Apparently a lot of people
Craving a homey dessert? Maybe a sweet cereal or candy-store sugar fix? How about an ice-cold shot of vodka? From the tireless innovators who turned the flavourless-spirit aisle into a fruit stand comes the latest twist, booze with the cheery promise of a childhood treat. Take your pick. There’s cake, cookie dough, whipped cream, cotton [...]
• Where the fuck should I go for drinks? APP!!!
Intrepid reporter, D.R. Stewart, tells us how the fuck to get a drink now. If life gives you lemons… blah-fucking-blah. There’s so many theories on what to do, some being make limoncello, some require throwing said lemons at the person who offered you such a banal phrase in your life’s lemon time. Recently, I had [...]
• Los Angeles Vegan Beer Fest Next Saturday!
LA Vegan Beer Fest 2012 presented by Tony’s Darts Away, The Roxy and Quarrygirl Saturday May 12th at The Roxy on Sunset 1pm – 5pm Admission includes unlimited craft beer, vegan bands, food for sale from local vegan businesses and vegan food trucks! Advance tickets on sale now! (all ticket prices will increase by $5 [...]
• New York City Banning Happy Hour? You’re kidding, right?
Now that they have eliminated smoking from bars and passed a beloved letter grade system to let you know how clean the city’s restaurants are, the Department of Health has had some free time to focus on their next big fix for New York City. And the winner is a proposal to eliminate happy hours [...]
• New craft brews fearlessly blend wines into beer
We’ve all heard the phrase “It takes a lot of good beer to make good wine,” a reference to winemakers’ time-honored after-work refreshment. Recently, thanks to modern craft brewers employing old winemakers’ ways—i.e. wood aging, wild yeasts, cork-and-wire closures—the line between beer and wine has gotten deliciously blurry. The best of these resulting brews? Dryer, [...]
• Ditch the Diet & Booze It Up with Alcohol-Infused Ice Cream
Alcohol doesn’t just come in bottles and cans: the geniuses at SnöBar have just unveiled a line of boozed-up ice cream that’s definitely not for kids. And as these booza-peneurs are quick to point out, “no cocktail is cooler.” Every serving of this alcohol-infused ice cream contains as much liquor as an average 12 oz. beer and [...]
• Amid Kentucky bourbon boom, Heaven Hill plans Louisville attraction
The country’s largest family-owned distilled spirits company hopes to draw thousands of tourists to a small distillery it’s opening in a stretch of downtown Louisville once known as “Whiskey Row,” close to the site where the namesake of its popular Evan Williams bourbon once set up a whiskey still nearly 230 years ago. In a [...]
• Pairing Cocktails With Food. Yes.
As cocktails have moved toward center stage at many restaurants and nightspots, both restaurants and their customers have been looking to pair cocktails with food. The trick is to compromise the taste of neither the drink or the dish, says Dave Arnold, who opened Booker and Dax bar in New York City with Momofuku chef [...]
• Inexpensive Vodka Upsets Major Players at SF World Spirits Competition
At a fraction of the price, Exclusiv Vodka outscored Absolut, Chopin, Smirnoff and other major brands at the 2012 San Francisco World Spirits Competition. The Double Gold medal winners in the 2012 San Francisco World Spirits Competition prove that spending more money for a bottle of Vodka doesn’t guarantee better taste. In a surprising upset, [...]
• A troubling trend in teens drinking hand sanitizer
Medical experts warn parents to watch for danger signs of young people getting drunk on the over-the-counter cleansers, which have a high percentage of ethyl alcohol. Six teenagers have shown up in two San Fernando Valley emergency rooms in the last few months with alcohol poisoning after drinking hand sanitizer, worrying public health officials who [...]
• 5 Other Uses For Vodka. You Know…Aside From Guzzling
Vodka can do more than just make a happy hour, well, happier. It has lots of “off-label” uses that go beyond the bar. Don’t believe me? Check out this list of 5 uses for vodka. Share yours in the comments! Goo Remover: Got a price tag, sticker or label that just won’t peel off? Bring [...]
• What would Homer do? Simpsons’ beer trademark tussle
German beer maker, Duff Beer UG, wants a trademark for their brand to resemble the fictional beer in the TV series The Simpsons. The brewer has gone to a European Union court to allow it to register an EU trademark for Homer Simpson’s favorite beverage. Duff Beer UG sells “the legendary Duff beer” without mentioning the [...]
• Here Ya Go. Why Booze Makes Some People Belligerent
Some people are friendly drunks, whereas others are hostile, potentially endangering themselves and others. The difference may lie in their ability to foresee the consequences of their actions, according to a recent study in the online Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Brad Bushman, a psychologist at Ohio State University, and his colleagues asked nearly 500 [...]
• Alabama bans beer brand over dirty name on label
You can buy Fat Bastard wine in Alabama, but you’ll have to go elsewhere for Dirty Bastard beer. The state alcoholic beverage control agency said Thursday it has banned the sale of Dirty Bastard beer in the state because of the profanity on its label. Beer and wine are commonly sold in grocery and convenience [...]
• More Australians hitting the bottle, survey finds. Is that possible?
AUSTRALIA’S drinking problem seems to be getting worse rather than better, with the latest snapshot of the nation’s alcohol habits finding more people are drinking significantly more than is good for them. More than a quarter (27 per cent) of 18-24-year-olds now say they are downing at least six standard drinks in a typical night [...]
