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32-liter bottle of gin claimed to be world’s largest

Glenfiddich is now using whisky waste to power its trucks

Woman celebrates 50th wedding anniversary by drinking 50-year-old Coors

Is the hard seltzer boom fizzling out?

Beer bar named N.W.I.P.A. changes name after accusations of cultural appropriation

London’s American Bar hires an actual American as head bartender

Drunk woman flees from police in a kayak

How prohibition brought down the Russian empire

Entire scotch whisky distillery to ship out and be re-assembled in Inner Mongolia

Brewery desperate for employees prints Help Wanted ads on its cans

Man shoots friend for refusing to drink with him

Kendall Jenner’s new tequila already sold out

Baseball players attack rowdy fans on $1 beer night

Monkey steals booze from liquor store and guzzles it on the counter

Bourbon from Wales is now officially a thing

New “black gin” turns purple when mixed with tonic

25-year-old scotch marks Resident Evil’s 25th anniversary

Study: Drinking and smoking reduce risk of Parkinson’s disease

How barley became vital to alcohol

Hole-in-one at the Scottish Open rewarded with 204 bottles of scotch

Trappist monks fight greedy mining company to keep the beer flowing

If you ever wanted a hi-fi console made from Jack Daniel’s barrels, now’s your chance

Man survives on beer for two days after being trapped under ATV

Coors Seltzer discontinued after less than a year

Gordon’s still the world’s best-selling gin

How to drink like a Russian

Moonshiners caught thanks to drunk buffalo

Italian government enlists US bartenders to help save Italian booze

Henn-dog remains unrivaled as world’s best selling cognac

Putin declares that only Russian wine is champagne

The world’s first biodynamic whiskey

Your tequila should be bat-friendly

Revealed: Bill Gates is a drinker but a bit of a lightweight

Why not turn old baseball bats into drinking mugs?

Pabst marking the 4th with a 1,776-pack

Brit moves entire Yorkshire pub to Germany

Driver arrested after handing beer to cop

Pappygate heist documentary coming to Netflix next month

St. Louis-based Budweiser is calling itself the official beer of ‘Up North’

Brewers scrambling to keep up with America’s newly packed bars

Alcohol will be banned at the Tokyo Olympics

Last chance to drink vodka named after Josef Stalin

Maybe champagne was first developed in England not France

KISS finally launches Cold Gin

Oldest existing bottle of bourbon, once owned by J.P. Morgan, going up for auction

What do the lines on red Solo cups mean?

New drinking straw is instant cure for hiccups

You too can drink beer from the Stanley Cup

“This is classic World Health Organization idiocy”: Women of childbearing age told not to drink

If you ever wanted to try orange-flavored Jim beam, now’s your chance

Scottie Pippen launches his own bourbon

Finnish brewery making beer out of goose droppings

Will airlines ever really ban booze?

New drunk driving test measures alcohol given off by the skin of a person’s ears

New “wine wand” claims to reduce hangovers

Fact-checking the Jameson whiskey heir cannibal scandal

The 10 most valuable spirits brands in the world

The ancient origins of beer geeks and wine snobs

Could alcohol-induced creativity be key to civilization?

Corona still world’s most valuable beer brand despite name association

DNA on Busch beer can leads to 1990 cold case murder arrest

Anheuser-Busch to give away free beer when America hits its vaccination goal

Seven of the weirdest death row meals and drinks requests

Should the drinking age be different for men and women?

Belgian abbey back to brewing beer for first time since French Revolution

Map shows heaviest-drinking counties in the US

Resident Evil gets its own green booze

Baileys knockoff “McBaileys” shot down in court

New documentary reveals the truth behind opening a craft brewery

Distillery hires dog to sniff out whisky imperfections

Science explains why beer cans explode

No surprise: Czech Republic comes in first in beer drinking

There are just 21 lesbian bars left in the US

Napoleon’s wine auctioned for $30,000

The best drinks that people never order

The pandemic’s to-go drinks are here to stay

Owner of 9/11-themed bar insists it isn’t in poor taste

Rum named after porn star Ron Jeremy rebranded following sexual assault charges

Craft beer industry faces #MeToo crisis

Cocktail named The Slave doesn’t go over too well

Proposed NY law would lower state blood alcohol limit to .05

UB40 finally gets around to launching their own red red wine

Pub sells single pint of beer for over $1,000 for the first drink poured in over a year

Margarita tops list of world’s favorite cocktails

Do’s and dont’s of drinking Ouzo

Booze made in Chernobyl exclusion zone seized by authorities

Turns out free beer will convince the unvaccinated to get their shot

US comes out on top in world wine consumption

Are cristalino tequilas worth it?

Benefits of drinking from a copper cup

Skyy vodka relaunches with brand new recipe

Wine country fights back in weed wars

Oktoberfest cancelled for second straight year

Heroic citizen leads fight against Turkey’s covid booze ban

New Orleans strip club to give out free covid vaccines, shots of booze

Oldest known whiskey soon to be up for auction

Buffalo Trace tries its hand at Chinese-style baijiu

11 G&T recipes from the world’s best bars

Scientists figure out how many bubbles are in a glass of beer

Each state’s favorite drunk fast food

Natty Light ice pops weigh in at 8% ABV

Pitcher who threw no-hitter rewarded with lifetime supply of beer

This beer tastes awful on purpose to show the negative effects of climate change

MLB star plays beer pong with fans in stands

Chinese live-streamers drink until they pass out or vomit to gain fans

Bushmills launches rum flavored whiskey

14 essential songs about drinking

Robo-dog taught to piss beer on command

Bill Nye scientifically proves that gin & tonics taste good

Filipinos love their coconut wine

Strangers fake a marriage proposal in a bar in order to score free drinks

Bartenders reveal the weirdest thing that’s happened to them on shift

GABF cancelled again

Man drives friend to hospital in bucket of stolen front-end loader

First documented case of a person who urinates alcohol

Inside the gin bar made from a Boeing 737

Fake doctor injected botox while drinking Four Loko

Drunk man tries to book a room at counterterrorism center

France bans drinking in public under new lockdown

Russia gets a taste for Irish whiskey

The most popular beer at all 30 MLB ballparks

Study: Daily wine reduces risks of cataracts

Study: Cheap wine tastes better if you tell people it’s expensive

Alcohol delivery could save the Postal Service

The Who’s Roger Daltrey now in the champagne business for charity

What your favorite cocktail says about you

Wine aged in space turns out to be pretty good

Miller Lite making candles that smell like a bar

Intruder breaks into Johnny Depp’s mansion and drinks his booze

The Ballad of Whiskey Willie

Why don’t some people seem to get hangovers?

Keg of beer catapulted 438 feet for new world record

Man gets trashed, has to be rescued from garbage truck

Cuba facing a rum shortage

Blue Spot Irish Whiskey returns just in time for St. Patrick’s Day

Drunk Ukrainian AF officer crashes into fighter jet

Shocker: “Free Beer” sign draws a crowd

Molson Coors brewing operations interrupted by cyberattack

Angry citizens hurl beer bottles at police drone

Vietnam War-themed bar apologizes for “horrific” decor

“I’ll kill you if you don’t buy me beer”

Crown Royal now comes in a can

Women used to dominate the beer industry — until the witch accusations started pouring in

World Health Organization “misleading the world” on Covid and alcohol

Study: White Sox fans are the drunkest in baseball

Hawaii politician responsible for harsh drunk driving laws busted for drunk driving wrong way down street

Jamie Foxx now in the bourbon business

Bud Select trying for a comeback

Dad makes baby beer bong to help daughter drink more formula

Beer aging underwater on a sunken ship stolen in mystery heist

Wine store’s entire inventory stolen in massive heist

.77 BAC may be highest ever recorded

73-year-old Iranian man faces death penalty for drinking

“Performance” beers taking a page from Gatorade

New online academy will teach you how to get into the booze business

The many health benefits of rum

Kendall Jenner’s new tequila stirs all kinds of contoversy

Stella Artois lowers ABV from 4.8 to 4.6%

A whisky-fueled optical illusion

Canned Irish whiskey debuts next month

Petition started for Gin & Tonic emoji

Ancient beer factory unearthed in Egypt

John Gotti’s wine collection goes up for auction

117-year-old Covid survivor celebrates with champagne, wine and port

Vineyard planted on Easter Island

Stella Artois moving from Belgium to the U.S.

Archaeologists uncover Capone-era moonshining operation

NOLA closing all bars in the city through Mardis Gras

Courageous bartender keeps Baghdad bar scene alive

Absolut debuts paper bottle

German whiskey on the rise

18-liter bottle of world’s most expensive wine sold

Revealed: Sesame Street was inspired by beer commercials

No monks, no Trappist beer

Pub frequented by Tolkien and C.S. Lewis closing after 450 years

Korean whiskey coming to the US

Sam Adams sets Clydesdales free in upcoming Super Bowl ad

Budweiser sitting out the Super Bowl for first time in 37 years

The rise and fall of America’s lesbian bars

End of the line for Olympia beer?

Have your cake and drink it too

Bar offers free beer to patrons who get vaccinnated

106-year-old covid survivor credits whisky for long life

Drunk man steals floating Tiki hut

Space wine splashes down after a year in orbit

Pompeii wine bar reopening after 2,000 years

Rare condition causes man do get drunk off of cake

To survive the winter, bars are becoming something more

Wine thieves throw bottles at cops in car chase

The strangest food and drinks crimes of 2020

Heaven Hill distillery fills its nine millionth barrel of whiskey

Corona beer sales unaffected by pandemic

The best American whiskies of 2020 shared one common trait

Drunk man legally changes his name to Celine Dion

New alcohol guidelines a victory for science over politics

KY can now sell bourbon online for the first time

The beer that won a baseball game

What drives writers to drink?

Over-engineered bottle opener takes the drudgery out of drinking

Tropicana apologizes for ad campaign suggesting alcohol was the answer to pandemic relaxation

Introducing California-style whiskey

Iconic Corona Xmas ad marks 30 consecutive years

Woman wades into ocean to save beer kegs swept away by storm

Baghdad liquor stores under siege by Islamists

Drunk man sleeps it off atop a coconut tree

Revealed: Christopher Plummer drank his way through “The Sound of Music”

Drunk man loses nose after trying to kiss a horse

Russian coronavirus vaccine recipients told to abstain from alcohol for 2 months

Michael Jordan’s golf course features flying drones that deliver booze

Revealed: Astronauts routinely smuggle booze into space

First known Xmas card was slammed for depicting boozing kids

Bar’s loyal customers buy its entire beer stock to keep it in business

Bar applies to register as a church to evade lockdown restrictions

100-year-old man credits lifetime of drinking and smoking for long life

Lawsuit claims Tecate beer isn’t Mexican

Crazed woman smashes 500 bottles of booze

66 bottles of Prohibition-era scotch discovered in former bootleggers home

PA suspends alcohol sales for Blackout Wednesday

Mike Tyson reveals that boxers get drunk before fights

Iranian Christian gets 80 lashes for drinking communion wine

10 years later, the legend of Four Loko lives on

Waffle House now selling bacon-flavored beer

Drunk chess player stabs opponent for poor play

In praise of Rum & Coke

Boozy cinema preview: “Another Round”

Veterans hatch “idiotic” plan to age bourbon on a Harrier jet

The greatest beer run ever

Tesla tequila already sold out

The flask is perfectly suited for pandemic drinking

Prince Charles now selling organic gin

Notorious wine forger set to be released from prison, deported

Revealed: Van Gogh experienced delirium from alcohol withdrawal

In Trump and Biden, a choice of teetotalers for president

Bar from “Goodfellas” saved again

Drunk FL man attacks girlfriend with a pumpkin

Guinness disgraces itself with zero alcohol version

The Rock sends 101-year-old fan two bottles of tequila for her birthday

Why not dress as a box of wine for Halloween?

Bar from Hitler’s yacht now up for auction

Since when is it a crime to get drunk and shoot rats?

Metallica’s new whiskey is “sonically enhanced”

102-year-old woman attributes long life to “beer and a shot of whiskey”

World’s strongest beer weighs in at 57.8 % ABV

The best backless bar stool

Fun facts about drinking in ancient Greece

Inventor of iconic Blue Hawaii cocktail still going strong at 102

Jack Daniel’s launches “Sinatra Select”

Drunk woman calls 911 claiming her “pussy’s on fire”

Gin Guild threatens legal action against 29% ABV “gins”

Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible denounced as sexist

Schaefer beer makes a comeback

Archaeologists unearth ancient Roman winery

Red Lobster now selling Mountain Dew “Dew Garita” cocktails

How much alcohol does it take to get a hobbit drunk?

Iconic Coyote Ugly bar closing down

Bud Light Lime-A-Ritas falsely suggest they contain tequila, lawsuit claims

Archaeologists unearth 2,600-year-old Phoenician winery

Drunk topless woman spotted chewing horse’s mane

Taco Bell is getting its own wine

MLB bans booze from postseason celebrations

If you ever wanted to drink Klingon Bloodwine now’s your chance

How to open a vodka bottle anti-theft lock

Drowning man rescued by priests on a floating Tiki bar

The official tequila of the Ethiopian royal family

North Koreans pretty proud of their new wine

Iowa governor considers raising legal drinking age

Online Boozing Simulator video game lets you drink like a Soviet-era Russian

Snoop Dogg now selling “juicy gin”

Johnnie Walker Blue Label named world’s best scotch blend

Cocktails for camping

Olympia Beer gets into the vodka business

99 Metal musicians join forces to cover “99 Bottles of Beer”

Employee slapped by boss for refusing to drink

Tokyo bar protects patrons with fish bowl helmets that hang from the ceiling

Man downs a fifth of Jack Daniel’s in 5 seconds, pays the ultimate price

Researchers in Finland develop hangover cure tablet

Coronavirus kills off “Cheers” replica bar

Power of Booze: Drunk man unharmed after train rolls over him

Nursing home residents party with booze and tattoos

Budweiser wants to be Utah’s official state beer

The secret Seagram’s bar inside the Chrysler Building

Jose Cuervo launches tequila-based hard seltzers

Cocktail suggestions from National Geographic

Bottle of new 007-themed scotch will only set you back $65,000

5 Soviet cocktails to shake at home

Irish pub near Mt. Everest vows to stay open

Medieval ‘wine windows’ back in use amidst pandemic

New Japanese booze is infused with silkworm droppings

Bar bans Neil Diamond song ‘Sweet Caroline’ to enforce social distancing

If you ever wanted to drink mustard beer, now’s your chance

NY legalizes boozy ice cream

Drunk man tries to outrun cops on a tractor

Coca-Cola gets into the hard seltzer business

Drink like Batman with Gotham City Cocktail Guide

FL man poses as health inspector to score free drinks from bar

Drizly data breach puts 2.5 million accounts at risk

Anheuser-Busch launches Budweiser with no alcohol

France’s 8-year-olds head off to wine school

12,000 bottles of Templeton Rye go to waste when semi overturns

$100 million international crime ring busted for making wine with corn syrup

Kraken Rum becomes official sponsor of Seattle Kraken

Saint Archer Gold lager disappears after only six months

In world’s strictest lockdown, South Africa bans alcohol again

Study: Drunk animals taste better

Bacardi apologizes for sexist vodka

Johnnie Walker switching to all-paper bottles

Beer industry faces can shortage

How Everclear became a pandemic favorite

Teens are dressing up as mask-wearing grandmas to score booze

Study: Pale ale, IPA drinkers more likely to be risk-takers

UK pub enforces social distancing by installing an electric fence

Buckingham Palace Gin made with botanicals from palace grounds

Iran hangs father of two for drinking alcohol

Anheuser-Busch debuts Busch Light Apple

Lair of the tequila bat

Smirnoff Icing never went away

Limited to 105 minutes in a pub, Guinness drinker makes the most of it

Killed by Prohibition, Conrad Seipp Brewing makes a comeback

Iowa becomes first state to permanently legalize cocktails to-go

Man steals firetruck to drive to bar

Now you can drink wine out of a paper bottle

Atlantic City casinos reopening without booze

Stale Guinness used to fertilize Christmas trees

FL, TX bars back on lockdown

Old Sam Rum pulled from shelves over racist branding concerns

Dos Equis 6-foot-long cooler promotes social distancing

Modern bootleggers deliver cocktails in Chicago

Jim Beam bringing back original 100-year-old bourbon

Somms no longer to be addressed as “master”

Archaeologists uncover Biblical winery of Ahab and Jezebel

Drunk monkey to spend life behind bars

Wineries demand customers sign legal waiver before tasting

Airlines ban booze in response to coronavirus

Bottle of bourbon found hidden inside removed Confederate statue

NYC liquor store looters prefer Hennessy and Patron, ignore the scotch

Study: Beer hops improve concentration and combat dementia

Tequila industry linked to Mexican drug cartels

Distillery issues urgent recall after selling bottles of gin filled with hand sanitizer

Woman defecates on man’s doorstep for pouring wine into wrong type of glass

Everybody was drinking on Atlantic City Boardwalk before, but now it’s legal

104-year-old coronavirus survivor credits champagne for long life

Cracker Barrel now selling booze

Former Chernobyl engineer now making “world’s best vodka”

Jameson still the top-selling Irish whiskey by far

Rush to create more hand sanitizer has limited whiskey supplies

Tokyo pubs spraying customers with disinfectant as they enter

Bars reopen but Americans still drinking on the couch

Latest drinking gadget: Backpack cooler holds 34 cans

Jack and Coke in a bottle weighs in at a meager 4.8% ABV

What to drink for National Dinosaur Day

103-year-old woman celebrates recovery from coronavirus by chugging beer

How to make dandelion wine

Peyton Manning’s bourbon costs $200 a bottle

Social distancing neighbors share beer with a catapult

Box wine sales surge worldwide

For $9 you can drink with a geisha girl at an online drinking party

GABF cancelled as in-person event

Drunk mayor pretends to be a corpse in a coffin to avoid police

Trappist monks back to brewing again after lockdown

Scientists create designer wheat for whisky distillers

Champagne sales have “ground to a standstill”

Coronavirus brings beer drinkers back to Bud Light

Booze bandits disguise themselves by wearing watermelons on their heads

Bar enforces social distancing by requiring customers to wear inner tubes

Gamblers hard up for bets wager on porn stars playing beer pong

For the tequila industry, coronavirus has been a boon

World’s oldest bottle of cognac up for auction

South Africa’s booze ban drives thieves to steal funeral parlor’s exhumation fluid

Champagne mogul swindled out of 50,000 bottles by conman posing as secret agent

Locked down pub delivers free beer by drone to loyal regulars

Drunkards Association in India demands end to booze ban

Crown Royal pouches make good face masks

Lessons from Gorbachev’s anti-alcohol campaign

Mermaids returning to famed Montana tiki bar

Man in his underwear tries to drink wine out of moving tanker truck

Grocery store transforms salad bar into booze mini-bottle buffet

Lockdown America stocking up on tequila, Irish whiskey

If you have to shelter in place, a pub is the place to do it

When life gives you pineapples, make pineapple beer

Latest hangover cure: Soluble plant extracts

Study: Horses, cows and elephants can’t hold their liquor

Saudi Arabia no longer flogging drunks

Whisky from beyond the Arctic Circle

Budweiser reviving iconic Whassup? ads

Further stories of Mickey Mantle’s drunken antics

96-year-old grandmother keeping the liquor store open

Scotland running out of Buckfast

Coronavirus cancels Oktoberfest

Original Tennessee Whiskey brought back from the dead

CO2 shortage threatens beer industry

Polite burglars notify liquor store owner that they stole two cases of beer

Pope Francis proclaims whisky is the real holy water

Snoop Dogg now in the wine business

Brewery delivers beer to locked down customers by horse and cart

Beer can koozies make good face masks

Pennsylvanians desperate for booze turned away by neighboring states

Wine aged under railroad tracks turns out to be pretty good

Bar safely serves drinks by lowering them out of the window in buckets

Bob Dylan is rocking American whiskey

Locked down 93-year-old granny asks for more beer

Mexico decides that beer is essential after all

Bar owner removes 3,000 dollar bills stapled to walls to donate to laid off employees

Chicago cuts off liquor sales after 9 pm

Job opening for “World’s Top Whiskey Taster”

Napa winery giving drive-thru customers free caviar

Locked down pub manager serves beer on model train

Build your own Infinitybottle

Draft beer going extinct

Astronomers search for planet capable of producing gin and tonics

Mexican beer industry to shut down for a month

PA liquor stores remain closed, online sales mostly unavailable due to “overwhelming demand”

Busch thinks $100 will buy a three months’ supply of beer

KY to allow bourbon distillers to ship direct to out of state customers

Man’s best friend delivers wine curbside

If you ever wanted soap that smells like bourbon, now’s your chance

St. Louis named city with best beer scene for 3rd year in a row

The world’s first ocean-infused whisky

Study: Daily drinking reduces risk of thyroid cancer

“Tequila Fairy” delivers free bottles to laid off hospitality workers

Man sends beer to neighbor via remote controlled toy car

No sports, but at least there’s celebrity beer pong

Damn right liquor stores are essential services

Coronavirus kindness: Owner of closed pub delivers free keg to 90-year-old regular

Mobile beer truck serves NY customers during shelter in place

Herd of elephants binge on wine and pass out

Proceeds from sales of “reassuring” wine go to coronavirus relief

Jeppson’s now making bourbon

LeBron James looking for a wine drinking partner

100-year-old credits daily rum for long life

Wine bar offers free toilet paper with every bottle purchased

Liquor sales boosted as much as 500% amid coronavirus panic

15 immune-boosting cocktails

Rapper Bow Wow falls through stage trap door, blames 50 Cent’s cognac for being too strong

Coronavirus not stopping Brits from going to the pub

Accident at winery changes village’s water into wine

Pastor wins beer drinking contest, thanks God for victory

Granddaughter bonds with grandma over bar-hopping

Tito’s tells customers not to use its vodka for hand sanitizer

Shetland pony visits pub every day and drinks Guinness

Vodka in short supply in Japan as rubbing alcohol sells out

The smallest whisky bar on earth

Beer made from 5,000-year-old yeast turns out to be pretty good

Miller Lite cancels Leap Day free beer promotion after brewery shooting

Study: 38% of American beer-drinkers won’t drink Corona due to coronavirus

Miller Lite offering free cases of beer on Leap Day, with a couple of catches

Thieves tunnel into wine cellar to pull off massive heist

Hundreds of ancient Roman wine jugs discovered in underwater cave

American woman returns beer mug 55 years after stealing it from German beer hall

North Korea’s most wanted wines

Jim Beam fills 16 millionth barrel since Prohibition

World’s first “climate positive” gin is made from peas

Man celebrates four months of sobriety by getting drunk

Bartender’s $9.28 paycheck shows the importance of tipping

China’s drinkers get happy hour delivered amid coronavirus lockdown

Firefighters rescue 10-foot-tall bottle of wine

Man who doesn’t drink beer steals 2,142 beers

Japan’s robot bartenders

Hennessy displaces Jack Daniel’s as official spirit of the NBA

Science considers whether weed can cure a hangover

Anti-craft beer gunman attacks people waiting in line to buy IPAs

Passengers quarantined aboard cruise ship have wine flown in by drone

Scotland running out of peat

Anheuser-Busch heirs to star in MTV reality show

Miracle: Booze flows from home water faucets

Drunk man calls police 25 times in quest for lost hoodie

Power of Booze: English teacher in China says whisky cured his coronavirus

Inmates stockpile 200 gallons of pruno for Super Bowl but guards spoil the party

Lost dog pictured on beer can reunited with owner after 3 years

Terry Bradshaw now in the bourbon business

Japanese whisky makes funny sounds

Nuclear fallout exposes counterfeit whisky

No, you won’t get coronavirus from drinking Corona beer

Winery worker fired after letting 630 cases worth go down the drain

Man registers pint of beer as his emotional support animal

Revealed: Beethoven was killed by bad wine

Drink like a drug lord with El Chapo beer

Most remote pub in UK gets some competition

Study: Teetotalers more at risk of kidney disease than drinkers

The Alcohall of Fame that never was

Ireland’s first Tiki Bar: ‘Ohana set to open in Dublin with “plenty of rum”

Pabst goes craft with “Captain Pabst” IPA

Tito’s overtakes Smirnoff as top-selling spirit in US

The franchising of the American cocktail bar

“Goodfellas” bar saved from extinction at the last minute

Australian navy ships 800 gallons of beer to town cut off by bushfires

If you’re going to get boss-punching drunk make sure you hit him

Blasphemy: 007 drinks non-alcoholic beer in new Heineken/Bond ad

Escaped pigs raid cognac supply

New gadget chills can of beer in 2 minutes

The rise of German whisky

Facebook changed the world of bourbon

Nigeria drinks more Guinness than Ireland

Politician who warned against drunk driving last week arrested for DWI on New Year’s Eve

No alcohol for 92-year-old granny who didn’t have ID

Science creates the perfect head of beer

Study: Mixing booze with diet soda gets you drunk faster than sugary mixers

Red Lobster now serving Bloody Marys garnished with lobster claws

Lair of the tequila bats

Museum of Hangovers opens in Croatia

Woman tries to set boyfriend on fire for not drinking with her

Study: Vegetarians and vegans get worse hangovers than meat-eaters

How whiskey stones became an inescapable holiday trend

Thirsty worker commits armed robbery for one beer

Baby Yoda cocktail is path to the drunk side

Hops growers set record with biggest harvest ever

Electric mini-car built out of Jameson barrel, steers with Guinness taps

Massive Roman shipwreck may have had 200,000 bottles’ worth of wine aboard

Scots expert claims whisky first developed in Ireland or England

275 cases of weak beer down the drain in Utah

World’s largest bottle of whisky is nearly five feet tall, holds 27 gallons

Science reveals that tapping a beer can to stop it foaming over doesn’t work

Iconic bar in town with 14 residents up for sale

Jose Cuervo now making drinking straws out of agave

The future of wine is flat bottles

Wife builds mini-pub in back yard to keep her husband home

Nannies fret over image of teddy bear on beer can

“Go straight for Gay Beer”

Icelandic whisky smoked with sheep dung

Former hermit runs the only Trappist brewery in America

Scientists unveil “ultimate” hangover cure

California regulators shut down a distillery for selling alcohol

Study: Arrival of Uber increases drinking, bar employment

Bad ice is ruining your cocktail

World’s most valuable whisky collection worth almost $14 million

France says ‘Non’ to Dry January

The Fighting Irish 69th Regiment gets its own Irish whiskey

Study: Worrying about getting a hangover makes it worse

Booze bandit asks cops if he can finish drinking before going to jail

Pernod Ricard employees complain they were pressured to drink on the job too much

Best reasons to purchase a beer drinking horn

PBR now available in a 99-pack

New Budweiser ad encourages viewers to drink water between beers

Bar installs 70 Bigmouth Billy Bass to sing in unison

Not everybody excited about gender-neutral cocktails

African gin infused with elephant dung described as “spicy, earthy”

Carbon-negative vodka for the eco-conscious drunk

Cruise passengers keep drinking as storm floods the deck

Bartender falls through nightclub ceiling while making cocktail

900 bottles of century-old booze salvaged from shipwreck

Largest dry town in NY State finally moves on from Prohibition

Latest cocktail gadget: The “smart coaster”

Man steals Walmart electric shopping cart to drive to bar

Space Station put to good use aging wine

Study: Children of strict mothers more likely to become alcoholics

Investigation reveals how unreliable alcohol breath tests really are

Winery opens in the Eiffel Tower

Utah ditches 3.2 beer law leaving MN the last holdout

There are two barrels of bourbon for every person in Kentucky

Cops armed with axes and shotguns bust up backwoods still

World Series fan takes home run to the chest rather than spill his beer

Judas Priest now in the rum business

Miller Lite offering free beer if you unfollow them

Bottle of 60-year-old Macallan sells for nearly $2 million

Vagina Museum granted an alcohol license

108-year-old woman’s keys to long life are booze and horse racing

Man’s “PLEASE SEND BEER” sign actually works

Sherry is going extinct

How to make your own cocktail bitters

Anheuser-Busch claims MillerCoors stole its recipes

92-year-old bartender not ready to retire yet

The future is paper beer bottles

Drunk judges brawl in front of White Castle

Bar sued for sex discrimination for charging men on Ladies Night

Escaped inmates captured returning to prison after booze run

Cops not fooled by 20-year-old bar patron’s “McLovin” ID

FL men try to get alligator drunk on Coors

Russian vodka was invented on this day, or not

Pseudoscience: Study claiming men should stop drinking before conception is debunked

Bulletproof liquor cabinet will only set you back $28,000

96,000 mugs stolen from this year’s Oktoberfest

Glenlivet launches edible cocktail pods

Study: Binge-drinking by men is a sexual signal to show women they are strong and vigorous

New St. Louis bar charges by the hour, not the glass

Man being ticketed for underage drinking is showered with cash by cheering crowd

$724 for two beers is too much even for an NFL game

Foamy beer is not the enemy

FL dive bar donates 14,000 dollar bills stapled to walls and ceiling to hurricane relief

Bombay Sapphire sued for using same ingredients it always has

Archaeologists discover illegal Scottish distillery from 18th century

Bloody Mary made with Malort isn’t as bad as it sounds

Revealed: Charles Dickens kept a healthy booze cellar

Man drinks cocktail made with his own mummified toe

White Castle now selling its own beer

“Irresponsible” ad for gin banned for linking alcohol with mountain climbing

Bartles & Jaymes wine coolers trying for a comeback

German court rules that a hangover is an illness

Buckingham Palace bar shut down because staff were getting too drunk

World’s first black gin sells out in a day

30 ways to say you’re drunk in Scotland

Taffer now selling hard seltzer

Smithsonian ready to open beer history exhibit

Amish beer drinkers bolt from buggy as cops close in

Michael Jordan gets into the tequila business

Goodbye “Dilly Dilly,” hello Bud Light Seltzer

Priests dump 18 gallons of holy water on town to cure drunkenness

FL couple arrested for drunk bicycling have sex in police car

Naked man running down the street with beer vanishes into cornfield

Miller High Life making a comeback?

Man rolls his SUV, steals firetruck, heads straight to the bar

95-year-old twins credit Guinness, no sex for long life

Bar vandalized 45 years ago get anonymous apology and $500

Doom Eternal gets its own vodka made with cow bones

NYC tackles rat infestation by getting them drunk

Gin distilled from Brussels sprouts makes its long-awaited debut

Winery tourists ride out artillery bombardment with wine and cheese

The dive bar is to the US what the pub is to England

Bahamian scrawls “Send Beer” message in the sand as Hurricane Dorian hits

Absinthe gets some belated respect

$4,400 smart fridge makes “craft ice” for cocktails

The end of the red Solo cup?

Beer-to-go finally comes to Illinois

France embraces binge drinking

Bar Rescue sued after patron is killed at rescued bar

Science solves the problem of exploding beer bottles

Hard seltzer is this summer’s biggest scam

Conor McGregor’s whiskey flushed down toilet in backlash over video

Brewery gets death threats over beer named after nuclear test site

The formula behind the Irish pub

If you ever wanted to drink pickle beer, now’s your chance

Four Loko now selling “hardest seltzer in the universe”

Winery built by Crusaders discovered in Israel

Man shot in abdomen heads straight to the beer cooler

Macallan from 1950 will only set you back $58,000

Atomik vodka made with ingredients from Chernobyl exclusion zone

Archaeologists dig up Viking drinking hall

Manhunt continues for drunk guy who rode a giraffe

Recycled leftover beer looks as bad as it sounds

Big Brother knows your place in line at the bar

Hooters launches its own line of “premium” spirits

Federal court strikes down Virginia’s “habitual drunkard” law

Drunk man bites snake that bit him

Captain Morgan sales drop as Americans drink less soda

Surfer attacked by shark heals up with free drinks at the bar

Teenagers besiege jail to free drunk friend arrested at graduation party

Three liters of box wine and Cheez-Its looks pretty good

Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man has had enduring effect on cocktail culture

New bourbon festival focuses on African-American contributions to whiskey

Epidemic of tainted booze kills 19 in Costa Rica

Scientists develop pea gin for the eco-conscious drunk

Penitentiary inmates growing hops and wine grapes to train for future jobs

Study: Red wine keeps astronauts fit during space travel

No salmon were harmed during the making of this beer

Taffer’s cocktail mixers coming to a Walmart near you

For the indecisive beer drinker, there’s now “Regular Beer”

Booze helps Woody Harrelson make it through Wimbledon doubles match

Not just any bourbon can be called “Missouri bourbon”

Lawsuit claims only Dan Aykroyd’s booze can sell in a skull bottle

Busch dynasty officially out of the beer business

Hard-drinking actor Rip Torn bows out

Leonardo da Vinci’s winery reborn after 500 years

“Sideways Effect” persists 15 years later

Virginia distillery sued by Scotch Whisky Association for false advertising

Delta brings back free cocktails to coach passengers, but only on long-haul flights

Counterfeit booze a growing concern for U.S. tourists abroad

Drunk man hailed as hero for calling Uber for sick bird

Warehouse fire burning for three days torches 45,000 barrels of Jim Beam

Redcoats were no match for Colonial troops fueled by rum & cider cocktails

Thieves tunnel into wine cellar, steal half-million dollars worth in massive heist

Indians insulted by image of Gandhi on beer bottles

PBR unveils 5% abv Hard Coffee

Soccer star challenges “ugly” Snoop Dogg to Cannabis vs. Booze boxing match

Relax about Canadian vodka

Anheuser-Busch wine?

Don’t open your beer bottle with a chopstick, doctors warn

Snoop Dogg hits low blow in warning against “alcohol abuse”

Study: “Lockout laws” backfire, lead to more drunkenness

Bungling burglars steal 22 bottles of colored water instead of booze

Man robs gas station to pay his bar tab

No beer for Nazis

Colombian politician’s “great protest” against drinking beer in public draws dozens

Fire engine converted into mobile beer tap

Nannies fret that reality TV makes kids drink

The Negroni turns 100

Drunk man terrorizes town in a Soviet tank

Man wins sex discrimination suit after being denied pink beer

Man 86ed from bar for life calls 911

“We Went Blues!” Brett Hull enjoys a drink or two at Stanley Cup celebration

Widow of Sailor Jerry sues distiller, says her husband didn’t drink

Stanley Cup champs chug $1,200 Pappy straight from the bottle

Why women don’t get beer bellies

Woman arrested for being “impaired behind the wheel” of Power Wheels toy truck

Make your Utah vacation better with smuggled booze

Why not make whisky from oats?

Miller Lite unveils video game controller made from beer can

Man killed in bar brawl buried in coffin painted as Foster’s can

Why liquor makers are promoting cocktails over shots

The search for the world’s oldest alcohol

Politician livens up dull diplomatic trip by getting drunk and calling for war

The world’s worst drinking game

Beer-to-go now legal in TX

Remembering the 10-cent Beer Night riot

Canned wine comes of age

A mountain lion walks into a Tiki bar

London’s first nudist bar

SEC lifts booze ban at games

ID scanners invade bargoers’ privacy

North Korean Scotch?

“Light whisky” rears its ugly head

Why not holster your beer on your belt buckle?

Brewery apologizes for beer inspired by Crips and Bloods

Your favorite cocktails are trash

Drunk Russian priest defrocked after stabbing monk

Scientists brew beer from 5,000-year-old yeast

$30 wine is designed to be paired with Jimmy John’s

Belgian monks resurrect brewery after 220 years

Taffer now rescuing marriages

Delaware moves to decriminalize underage drinking

Restaurant mistakenly serves customers wine worth $6,000

British Airways unveils gin engineered for high-altitude cocktails

The world’s first robot-designed whiskey

Prohibition 2.0

Distilleries are turning into mini theme parks with booze

No, it’s not a pub without booze

Bourbon hunters now have their own camouflage

New life for Lucky Lager

Wayne Gretzky, booze baron

Drink Aviation gin, support the Air Force

Bartenders agree: $1 tips aren’t good enough

“Menstrual themed cocktail” causes controversy

US drinks more tequila than any other country

Coca-Cola releases new flavors specifically designed as cocktail mixers

Presidential candidate disqualifies herself by playing beer pong with water

No beer with karaoke in Utah

Gordon Ramsay cocktail named “White Geisha” called racist and sexist

Chess and whiskey

Drunk bookworm refuses to leave library, tells cops he’s Jason Bourne

Booze ads banned from all NYC property

The emerging California-style whiskey

Mexicans outraged over proposed cold beer ban

Booze flows again in Mosul

Bottle of whiskey turns out to be rat poison

Easter Bunny leaps into bar brawl

UB40 star keeps the red red wine flowing despite brain tumor

Jack Daniel’s knocks off Fireball as bartenders’ most recommended shot

Ancient Peruvian empire sustained by beer

One day after Notre Dame fire, French warehouse full of wine burns down

Minimum alcohol pricing in Scotland already a failure

Sammy Hagar teams with Guy Fieri in latest tequila venture

Carlsberg admits it sucks

Honor the fallen

No champagne for the British Navy

Bill Murray shares his best drinking stories

Now we know why service industry workers drink a lot

Nannies ban whisky commercial in which man sprouts wings and flies, cite “risky behavior”

Irish named world’s best single malt for first time ever

Cop shows up drunk for breathalyzer training

If you ever wanted to mix cold beer with egg whites, you’re not alone

FL man claims he found tooth in can of Busch beer

Shocker: Military leads all professions in number of days spent drinking

New PBR Extra weighs in at 6.5 ABV

Gallo Empire acquires Paul Masson and 33 other brands

Outrage after strawberry Natty Light wins beer competition

Sadly, the Jägermeister bong kit is just an April Fool’s gag

Drunk wedding backfires on Nicolas Cage

Rum aged on 19th-century warship

Sheriff warns spring breakers not to smuggle vodka in sunscreen bottles

Finally the end of 3.2 beer?

Tanya Tucker launches “wild” tequila

Health officials warn French to lay off the wine

Why not sell cocktails at the public library?

MillerCoors now in the wine spritzer business

The rise of German whiskey

Breaking Bad beer arrives

$25,000 Glenlivet at least sells in a fancy bottle

Driver smashes into beer distributor, steals only two cans

MADD backs bill to lower Michigan’s drunk driving limit to .05

MillerCoors sues A-B InBev over Super Bowl ads

The cheapest and most expensive drinking cities in the U.S.

Refrigerator full of cold beer washes up in flooded Nebraska field

Exiled president of Peru making the most of things

$130 device claims to make canned beer taste like draft

“We’re all over 21” — Nursing home residents brew their own beer

The best Irish pubs in America

Congresswoman calls for mandatory interlock devices on all cars in the U.S.

Country singer fined for shotgunning a beer on stage

Booze-infused water for the fitness-conscious drunk

Illicit drinking at Target becoming a trend

Corona pushing out even more brands

Rapper G-Eazy unveils vodka in a can

Man vows to consume nothing but beer for 46 days of Lent

Blind Drunk: Very drunk man doesn’t realize his eyeball fell out

Booze coming to Dollar Tree

Beam’s first new bourbon in 30 years has a Japanese twist

Turkey Dew cocktail finally getting respect

Tables turned on Texas booze police

Thirsty shopper at Target downs box of wine before leaving the store

Corn syrup war heats up as Bud Light invades Miller’s home turf

Outrage over game of Swastika Beer Pong

The most remote Irish pubs in the world

West Virginians can now buy booze on Sundays, but only after 1 p.m.

PBR getting into the whiskey business

Presidential hopeful disqualifies himself by saying Margaritas are made with vodka

The comeback story of Michter’s whiskey

No vodka for North Korea

Nobody asked for it, but strawberry lemonade Natty Light is coming

Corona sued over exploding beer bottles

18-year-old demands to be arrested for underage drinking

Dry Arkansas county goes wet after 70 years

Master of Wine says food and wine pairings “a lot of bullshit”

A-B InBev gets into the canned cocktail business

Jeppson’s Malort looking to expand beyond Illinois

Pastor gives congregants anointed vodka to cure diseases

Bars turn to security cameras to fend off TX booze police

Thieves steal vodka company’s iceberg water for some reason

Crown Royal further degrades itself with peach-flavored version

Drunk witnesses remember a surprising amount

“Battleship Shots” upgrades classic board game into drinking game

Tech industry takes first place in workplace drinking category

Drinkers unite to reverse booze ban on National Forest rivers

German whisky called Glen Buchenbach forced to change its name

“World’s most sustainable cocktail” served in edible pasta bowl

El Chapo’s legal team armed with gun-shaped tequila bottles

Science says beer before wine won’t minimize a hangover

America’s favorite cocktail: The Margarita

US/UK post-Brexit deal keeps the booze flowing

Bud Light gets everybody riled up about corn syrup

Tiny VT brewery named best in the world for 5th year in a row

Pepsi locked in legal battle with distillery over origin of the term “mountain dew”

The craft beer con man

The Dude turns down a White Russian in favor of Stella in Super Bowl beer ad

One man’s drunken adventure into a pit ends in screams

Everyone drinks a lot in “Casablanca”

Pabst Blue Ribbon never actually won a blue ribbon

Why not put photos of missing children on booze bottles?

Bar’s MLKegs promotion doesn’t go over too well

Why not hold a 10K run in a wine cellar?

Beer truck overturns, dozens of helpful citizens eagerly assist with cleanup

If you ever wanted to see a sequel to the movie “Cocktail,” you might get your chance

Why is the rum gone?

The Mojito Diet isn’t as great as it sounds

Woman who drank wine from a Pringles can starts a trend

Cops harass citizen who just wanted to drink beer in a manhole

Fireball’s conquest of America nears completion

Burglars steal booze first, come back later for cash registers and safe

Bushmills Red apparently make you want to run a lot

If you ever wondered about the nutritional value of Bud Light, now you know

Alcohol poisoning cured with 15 cans of beer

Woman 86’d from Walmart for drinking wine out of Pringles can while driving disability cart

Congressman stopped from bringing beer onto House floor

MADD very happy with Canada’s draconian new drunk driving law

Russian hockey star offered free vodka for life to sign contract

Baptist church stops liquor store from selling liquor

The demise of the hotel room minibar

Battery-operated beer cooler keeps drinks cold for a week without ice

Drunk woman defends herself from inflatable Frosty the Snowman

Polyhedron bar cart “adds flair to any drinking room”

Blue Moon is craft beer, according to the Kentucky Derby

How not to open a $2,000 bottle of champagne

Big Brother orders man to demolish mini-pub he built in his shed

Miller Lite wins minor skirmish in endless war with Bud Light

White House intruder stopped from delivering Crown Royal to President Trump

KY bourbon country turning into Napa Valley of whiskey

Thirsty thieves steal half-million dollars’ worth of Patron tequila

Pedialyte wants to be your hangover cure

Fallout 76 rum is as bad as the game

Study: Heart patients who drink live longer than teetotalers

Actually, the Highball never went away

An incomplete list of the best books on booze

What to drink while you’re watching “Predator”

Nannies fret about alcohol images on greeting cards

Named and Shamed: the 24 states that ban alcohol sales on Xmas Day

Lab finds a third of “rare” scotch whiskies are counterfeit

Celebrate your racehorse’s victory with gin made from tack turf

7-Eleven launches its own brand of canned wine

World’s first 3D printed bar

Witch Doctor says homebrewer’s bad beer is cursed

It’s hard to run from the cops with 11 bottles of booze in your pants

Russia moves to raise drinking age from 18 to 21

Wisconsin takes first place in the “excessive drinking” category

MillerCoors has some canned cocktails for you

Costco drops the axe on Kirkland Signature Light Beer

Study: Teetotalers spend more time in the hospital

Study: Lowering alcohol limits for driving doesn’t reduce traffic accidents

Former Bush family bartender reveals 41’s preferred way to drink scotch

Confirmed: James Bond is a drunk

Coors-drinking WW2 vet rewarded with fully-stocked beer cooler

The revolt against pink gin

Australian man defends beer from rampaging kangaroo

Latest hangover cure: B vitamins, milk thistle, N-acetylcysteine, and frankincense

Booze flows in Mosul after jihadis 86’d

In honor of Repeal Day, America’s dumbest drinks laws

“A bar without amaro is a bar missing a limb”

Man operating Tesla on autopilot charged with DUI

Michelob and Modelo leaving rival macrobrews in the dust

Man fakes kidnapping to hide bender from wife

Revealed: Vegetarians eat meat when drunk

PBR gets new lease on life

1,200 American breweries team up for CA wildfire relief

Medieval whisky still discovered at Scottish abbey may be world’s oldest

Le Cutty Sark: Iconic scotch bought by French company

French Whisky Revolution

102-year-old twins credit gin for long lives

Champagne is the only wine you need for Thanksgiving

Bar stools are not created equal

Time for Tequila & Tonics?

Olympic champion curlers show up at tournament too drunk to play

Trending up: Inhalable booze balloons

Drunk bookworm breaks into library because he “really wanted to read”

Assassin’s Creed gets its own wine

Why beer is so bad on a plane

Conor McGregor’s whiskey sells out in 10 days

Drunken FL woman rescues live lobster from Red Lobster

Backfire: Minimum pricing law leads to surge in Buckfast boozing

The end of PBR?

Fancy cognac gets even fancier

German rockers launch Swedish whisky

250-gallon G&T sets new world record

Reinventing the humble beer keg

Gallon of wine found preserved in 2,000-year-old tomb

Prince William pranked by sailors who replaced his rum with a Jägerbomb

Exploding Corona bottles likened to “glass hand grenades”

Drunk guy takes horse on a joyride during Breeders’ Cup

Baptists for booze

California brandy is better than ever

The world’s largest Negroni

50-year-old Johnnie Walker will only set you back $25,000

No mercy: Nuns at Convent of Mercy refuse drunk man’s request for beer money

Introducing Maker’s Mark 101

Chardonnay, the “mayonaisse of wines”

Bourbon for the year 2068

US troops drink Iceland dry

Not your father’s Thunderbird

Brewer apologizes for beer named after Hindu god

Wino performs impressive tightrope walking feat on high-voltage power lines

Cops confirm Ross from Friends not a suspect in beer theft

Prohibition Party trying for a comeback

Hurricane Michael survivors denied booze by local sheriff

Chinese launch booze university to convert Americans to Baijiu

Study: Communism causes heavy drinking

Bug-eyed “beer baron” makes off with five cases in his arms

Inner-city winery revives blighted neighborhood

Top 10 country songs about whiskey

The most expensive bottle of wine ever sold

Who ever heard of a pink Beefeater?

FL man shoots bar patron for turning down a shot

World Health Organization’s advice on alcohol about what you’d expect

Cheating scandal rocks wine world

MADD not happy that LeBron lets his kids drink wine

Wine thief’s career ends in gruesome suicide

Germany’s beer halls are going extinct

Natty Light now available in a 77-pack

TWA jet converted into airport cocktail lounge

Seagram’s 7 lays claim to title of “the quintessential dive bar drink”

60-year-old Macallan sells for $1.1 million

Bar voted “world’s best” two days after announcing it’s closing

Opera fans party hard on smuggled vodka

France finally discovers craft beer

Kentucky has twice as many bourbon barrels as citizens

CA governor vetoes bill extending Last Call because “we have enough mischief”

Grandfather and grandsons kicked out of park for drinking kombucha

The rise and fall of the comedic drunk

6 of the worst gifts to buy a whiskey lover

IHOP now selling pancake beer

Busta Rhymes mocked for drinking cognac through a straw

University president apologizes for guzzling from students’ beer bong

Man charged with public drunkenness even though he was down in a storm drain

Would you drink from a reusable beer bottle?

Revealed: Daniel Craig is the booziest Bond of all

Booze smugglers’ den discovered in medieval castle

“Just having a glass means victory”: Former Green Berets open whiskey distillery

Drunk wakes up from bender to find chopstick stuck in his head

112-year-old credits daily dose of Famous Grouse for long life

Lufthansa celebrates Oktoberfest with in-flight kegs

Vanilla vodka makes a comeback

Best not to handle poisonous snakes when drunk

Drunken NHL champs prompt ban of Stanley Cup keg stands

Bono gets into the Irish whiskey business

Pulling a gun at Last Call will get you 86ed every time

Now you can surf on a board made from whisky barrels

Drinkers ride out Hurricane Florence in boarded-up dive bar

Hawaii is the only state that doesn’t produce bourbon

Prehistoric humans brewed beer before they learned to make bread

Free Busch beer for a year for the winner of this scavenger hunt

$260,000 cognac from Napoleonic era sets record

Bourbon distillery workers vote to strike

Ian Fleming’s estate publishes official James Bond cocktail guide

If you ever wanted to go to a Hello Kitty-themed bar, now’s your chance

Two liters of vodka, cookies and George Foreman grill don’t mix well for FL man

92-year-old barmaid shows off her underwear collection

Big Brother shuts down ice cream shop for selling rum-flavored treats

Booze at Disneyland will have Walt Disney “rolling over in his grave”

Archaeologists discover site where Jesus turned water into wine

Fastest-growing spirit in the US: Tequila

BrewDog launches its own TV network

The gin and bourbon cocktail that routed the Afrika Korps

Winery founded by doomsday cult still producing

Notorious whisky forger goes on the lam

Beer bandit walked off with $11K worth in 60 trips to the same store

Appeals court upholds 90-year-old “habitual drunkard” law

Calling out fake gin

Wine coolers still trying for a comeback

Scotch distillers try their hand at bourbon

So-called moonshine looks like a load of horseshit

Chinese drinking up all the Budweiser

Instagram is changing the way bartenders make cocktails

Drinking game goes wrong when barmaid attacks woman who spanked her

Time to get ramsquaddled

Cocktail named Tuskegee Experiment doesn’t go over too well for some reason

Suicide jumper talked down with offer of free beer

Nursing home residents get their own pub