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

Time Out NY – Summer Drinking Options

If you want to know where are the popular and crowded spots are, check out Time Out NY’s “Perfect Bar” guide here (it’s not as fun as they claim) FEATURE

Drinks with the coworkers tonight?

Among the first day orientation, paper signing, selecting healthcare and finding out where to take my breaks, the invitations were already being exchanged for this thursday’s happy hour with the co-workers. Happy hours with the office mates is time-honored and ever present in American work culture. A ritual of sorts to figure out what’s be …

Last Round on the Underground

The Rail Maritime and Transport (RMT) union in London, England has imposed a ban of open containers of alcohol on public transportation (the rail, buses, the Docklands Light Railway and trams); announced by London Mayor Boris Johnson and implemented on June 1st. As a protest, several people organized the Circle Line Cocktail Party for the …

Scooter Cruzer gets pulled for DWI

We hyped the Cruzin Cooler a few months back as a great way to roll to the party, however, a Whitehall, NY man found out that inebriated driving on the sidewalk with one can result in your beer stash being confiscated by the cops, having to potentially pony up DUI charges. The PostStar reported. Marr …

Esquire’s version of Best Bars in America

Esquire is not a consistent read for GPCer’s primarily because of it’s over abundance of advertising which overtakes too many pages which would normally be set aside for gratuitous sexual exploitation (see this months cover tease with Jessica Simpson). This month they have their annual and ridiculous “Best Bars in America” list published. Yet again …

Whiskey business: Myths of Jack Daniel

The legend of Jack Daniel reaches all the way back to the moment he was born. Unfortunately, nobody knows exactly when that was. Jack Daniel believed the more memorable his image, the more memorable his whiskey. Some records show that Jasper Newton “Jack” Daniel came into the world on September 5, 1846. His tombstone, however, …

Ballparks sell diluted beer

I moved to New York several years after the ban on drinking in the bleachers of Yankee Stadium, and to a fan of the game from when I could lift a bat through my legal drinking age, I didn’t understand the reasoning. I heard the fight stories and am very familiar with those as an …

I think this would be a good time for a beer

April 6, 1933. Midnight was approaching. A crowd of perhaps 25,000 milled around the Anheuser-Busch brewery on Pestalozzi Street. Inside the lobby of the Bevo packaging plant, August A. “Gussie” Busch Jr., grandson of the brewery’s patriarch, stepped up to a KMOX microphone. “April the seventh is here, and it is a real occasion for …

Cruzin for boozin

Everyone attacks the weekend tailgate, bbq and beach day with the same focus – get the crew, plan the grub, get the tools/grill and double the beverage count you think you’re going to need. In the city you most likely don’t have a car so lugging all this gear around Gotham is an event in …

Beer better than water after exercise?

According to this Fox News story, a study found that beer after exercise helps a person quench thier thirst and replenish carbs/calories from the work out. Rest of story is also here: Having a beer after exercise could do you more good than drinking water, a new study suggests. Beer can help someone who has …