I’m sure you all were waiting for me to suggest some quality patriotic (Red, White & Blue) cocktails for the 4th of July Weekend. Well, here you are:

Yankee Doodle

1 oz of blue-raspberry vodka
2 oz of sweet and sour mix
1 oz of tonic

Directions:
Mix the vodka, sweet and sour mix, and tonic. Serve on the rocks.
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If you are coming to or sticking around NYC for the 4th of July, head on out to the annual Nathan’s 4th of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest.

Coney Island and Brighton Beaches
Neighborhood: Coney Island
1208 Surf Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11224
718-946-1350

If you were there last year you had the excitement of seeing Joey Chestnut defeat 6-time defending champ Kobayashi to bring the crown back to the US.  Lets see if he can defend his crown now against a 100% healthy Kobayashi (Said he had injured his jaw during training prior to last year’s event).

Party - Night Of Mayhem (Login to Facebook and Click to view)

Location: The Beach, Torbay
City/Town: Torbay, NL

… Is the name of an event posted on Facebook for a 4th of July Weekend  that is sure to be filled with drunken sexcapades, bad decisions, & all in all a great time. (Torbay is in England mind you, so the fact that they celebrate the 4th of July is beyond me, but that is not the topic of discussion).
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“Smokers in France are uniting to beat a ban on lighting up in public by organising open-house parties where they can puff on their Gauloises until the early hours.” (Source: TimesOnline.co.uk)

Leave it to the French to try and one up us Americans and ban smoking in bars as well as ALL public areas…  Thats right, you can’t even light up outside your office!  However it seems that they have not taken too lightly to the law.

The movement has flourished since the introduction of the ban on January 1. Internet groups on facebook and other various networks have sprung up to link the partygoers and inform them of planned festivities.

The group — Pour le Grand Retour de la Fête en Appart’ en 2008 (“For the Great Comeback of Parties in Flats in 2008”) — originally included a few dozen people. Now it has 1,182 members. It’s taken off so much that they had to create a second, secret group as it is not really feasable to “have 1,000 people in a small flat.”

According to Firstcoastnews.com Coors Brewing Co. has agreed to supply all the E85 ethanol needed to power the fleet of GM flex-fuel vehicles being driven at the Democratic National Convention in August.

From The Article: 

“While most ethanol comes from corn, Molson Coors’ ethanol is produced from waste beer.

The beer is lost during packaging or is considered substandard for public consumption.

Company representative Al Timothy says Coors is the country’s first major brewer to convert waste beer to ethanol.

The brewery started doing it in 1996.  Coors has beer that doesn’t meet their quality standards and so that beer is sent to ethanol towers and distilled down into 400 proof fuel-grade ethanol.

That fuel grade ethanol is blended with 15 percent gasoline and sold as E85 fuel in Colorado.”

I don’t know about you, but here in NY we just call that (”waste beer”) Keystone Light.

I was in Philadelphia this weekend visiting friends from college which of course means a LOT of drinking… And as we all know one of the side effects of drinking is “bad decisions…”

The first bad decision of the weekend was actually a sober one that set up the dominoes. The alcohol was just the finger that pushed that first one and got it all going:

In order of occurrence:

Bad Decision #1 - Inviting an “EX” in town for the weekend (any “EX”), in conjunction with inviting your good college buddies in town.

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EVEN THE NBA DRAFT!!!

As always I was scouring the net today for fun facts, stories, events, etc… having to do with the drinking world we love so dearly and I stumbled upon GOLD!

The NBA Draft Drinking Game (Source: CinemaBlend.com, by Mack Rawden)

Now when the Knicks (Insert your team here) trade away their 1st round pick for a failed, overpaid NBA Vet that will put them over the cap (who has yet to reach his potential), you can at least have some solace in the fact that THIS draft will soon be a blacked out memory never to resurface!  (THANK GOD ISIAH THOMAS IS GONE!)

Rules
1): For the first fourteen picks, each player must predict which athlete will be chosen before David Stern walks on stage. Any incorrect guess earns the offending fortune teller a five second drink.
2): After the first fourteen picks, each player may predict which athlete will be chosen before David Stern walks on stage. Any correct guess allows said player to force an opponent to drink for five seconds.
3): Each player must choose a different major collegiate conference and drink for five seconds whenever someone is drafted from said chosen conference.

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“Anheuser-Busch to reject InBev offer” (Soucre - Reuters)

Well its nice to see something is still American in this country… After Miller went the way of SAB it would sad to see the the last large-scale American brewery to be majority owned and operated in the United States be bought out by the Belgium company InBev.

Although a takeover is still quite possible it is nice to see that Anheuser-Busch will not go down without a fight.

“Billionaire investor Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway is Anheuser’s second-largest shareholder, told CNBC on Wednesday that he viewed the beer battle as ‘an interesting spectator sport’ but had not thrown his support behind either side.”

More to come…

I was attempting to search for content that would lead to my first post on this site, when i stumbled upon this argument to discourage teens from drinking :

” Alcohol puts your health at risk. Teens who drink are more likely to be sexually active and to have unsafe, unprotected sex.”  - (Source: Kids Health)

Well I think that it is clear that whoever put this site together didn’t think things through very well.   This fact is why most of us began drinking…

I think this says it all

Contributed by: Mark Stauffer

Heading to Philly for business or pleasure?  Unsure where to wet your whistle?  Well the Philadelphia Daily news was kind enough to provide a Philadelphia Beer Map:  

Joe Sixpack’s 2008 Philly Beer Map 

It provides a map of almost every bar in, and around, center city.  It also has links to each establishment’s websites (when available).   Perhaps they should consider a beer map for every city!