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Paris too Hot for Brazil?

According to the HuffPo, this ad was pulled in Brazil because of the “sensual nature”, but the back story not printed is that Brazilians just don’t like Paris Hilton and want her no where near their ad spaces, TV, or in the public eye. Good Job Brazil!!

Coming to the UK: Shatter proof pint glasses?

87,000 are reported to getting “glassed” by unruly UK bar patrons (reported, I’m sure this rises above 100,000 a year) which is … well, a lot! Rather than reduce the cause of these incidents, some UK glass makers have decided to embrace their scrappy culture and just redesign pint glasses to reduce breakage. [...]

Mexican dealers in Utah force feed you beer

Well, not until they bag you, toss you into a pick up truck and beat you with a wire hanger… Here’s a typical Fox News report.

Patrons of Beer on the Wye, Drink the event dry!

This type of article provides joy and pain all in one. Pain for those that paid to attend a festival highlighting real Ale for drink, but joy for the fantastic response from people that want to drink said suds, and drink through the supply early surpassing expectations for the organizers. Here’s to [...]

Toast to the Queen

As more of our regular pub crawlers tend to be English than of any other mix of ethnic group, we’re raising a glass for the Queen’s Birthday this weekend. In addition we have a few other June births in the group so a roof top party is on hand. If you’d rather celebrate [...]

America is still low on the list of world drunks

43rd to be precisely. All the “real” players are still on top: Czech Republic, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Denmark, UK, Russia, Australia, and Swaziland. No surprise that most of north Africa and the middle east are lowest on this list but Uganda on top? Full Map.
Looks like we’ve got to get [...]

Facts on the Greenist Holiday

Beer is America’s #1 Alcoholic Beverage, named by 42% as their favorite
American’s consume an average of 30 gallons of beer a year or about 5 pints a week
American’s spend almost $4 Billion on St. Patrick’s Day, although frew than half of all Americans spend money on the holiday. The most eager demographic is the [...]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Banned Guinness Commercial

NY Mag offers their versions of Best of New York

The NY Mag list of Best Nightlife is usually a mix of the hipster, socialite crowd and the true goodness that NYC offers. I’ve very happy to see Basic NYC, garner the best Dance party award, as they truly keep bringing the good talent back to NYC and (Le) Poisson Rouge which is [...]

ABC Makes 500 Rule Change – better for bars and crawlers

The 500′ rule requires any establishment requesting any license application for a location within 500′ of 3 existing establishments is subject to a public hearing. The length of time to recieve a hearing in the state has extended at times to six or seven months when 2,400 licenses are waiting for review; normally two- [...]