Category: News & Information

New York pub crawls: Because your regular drinking dens are like following the spin-dry cycle

Who does AskMen ask for the top clubs in New York?

Men7 is an AskMen.com lifestyle and entertainment network show that highlights the best of what ever in lists of 7 for the attention deficit male. It’s uncertain on how they select these listings (citysearch?, bartender friends, etc), but our feeling that lists of these nature contribute more to the demise of a club’s “coolness” factor …

Booze sales up as economics are down

This is no surprise. Weather your happy or down, you’ll have a drink and in these times, escapism in the bottle is prevalent. Wine sales are going through the roof as well an as this article point’s out 2012 is the magic year for the US to top the market . Notable US Rankings for …

Celebrate legal drinking

Today is the 75th anniversary date of the officially repealed of prohibition in America with the ratification of the 21st Amendment to the Constitution. On December 5, 1933, a 3/4 majority of states needed to ratify the 21st Amendment was reached when Utah adopted the 21st Amendment. It not only officially ended national Prohibition which …

Happy Bloody Mary Day!

This was an interesting announcement to report which quickly turned into botched publicity stunt, however, we here at GPC will still celebrate any excuse to have a cocktail. The NY Post proclaimed Happy Birthday for the Bloody Mary by interviewing a relative of Fernand Petiot, the proclaimed inventor (in the story) of the Mary. Not …

Beer lovers: What would Jesus brew?

In the beginning, there was a long line for Judgment Day ale. Shortly after the doors opened on the 27th Great American Beer Festival, a crowd congregated at the booth offering that and other pours from The Lost Abbey of San Marcos, California, where the tap handle is a Celtic cross and the legacy of …

College presidents want drinking age lowered to 18

The legal drinking age for countries worldwide varies drastically from, completely banning alcohol (Saudi Arabia, Sudan, etc.) or from no age limit to the maximum age of 21. There are only a handful of countries that have the limit set at 21 (Indonesia, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, Kiribati, in Paraguay it’s 21 in …

Germans have seen cheaper, sunnier and smokier days

We just heard about this from the Brits and zee Germans are hurting for beer customers. Hotter days may call for more beer drinking but ultimately it’s the rising prices, the “health” factor and a few things not mentioned below, the trend to move expand drinkers pallets to other brews, wines and hard cocktails that …

Beer losing British Iconic appeal?

LONDON (AP) – The iconic British pint is fast losing ground as the national drink, with a report out Monday showing beer sales in pubs slumping to their lowest level since the Great Depression. Squeezed by a nationwide smoking ban, rising costs, competition from supermarkets and the economic downturn, beer sales fell 4.5 percent between …

This Bud’s for EU

Anheuser-Busch, the largest brewing company in the US has agreed to sell itself to the Belgian brewer InBev (brewer of brands Leffe, Becks, Bass, Stella Artois, Brahma, Hoegaarden, & Staropramen) for about $52 billion, the two companies confirmed today [NY Times reporting], putting control of the nation’s largest beer maker (new name being announced as …

Disabled UK man in electric wheelchair refused 3rd beer

Just last month we heard about a man pulled over for DWI because he was driving an electric cooler while intoxicated, and now we have further idiocy where a man confined to a wheelchair was refused brew because a law limits intoxication for motorized riders of wheelchairs? This is completely ridiculous to us. Going 4 …