I’m going to be honest. This isn’t perfect. It’s not the catch-all, fool-proof answer to all of your bar-hopping problems that I wish it was. But it’s kinda f**kin’ funny and I am an extremely insecure blogger, and to think that you might get your drinking news elsewhere makes me want to storm into your [...]
Filed under: drinking game, marketing on December 26th, 2011 | No Comments »
The hipster, techie, music-snob friend.  Everyone has one, and everyone wishes they didn’t. Until now.  Because if that insufferable, condescending wretch of a friend wasn’t constantly tweeting tweetsh*t (or bulltweet?) about the next cool bla-bla-bla, you would never have heard about drinkify.org. The concept is simple: Tell it what you’re listening to.  It’ll tell you [...]
Filed under: Administrative, Bourbon, drinking game, marketing on November 10th, 2011 | No Comments »
Carlsberg is introducing a new beer with perhaps the stupidest selling point that I’ve ever seen for a beer. On the company’s website, Copenhagen is rolled out with a discussion of what “modern women and men” are looking for in a beer today, “specifically the full package of design, taste and quality.” It seems that [...]
Filed under: Beer, beer bottles, marketing on May 25th, 2011 | No Comments »
What do you get when you cross a fire-breathing dragon named Typhoeus with a half nymph, half snake named Echidna? A nasty looking, three headed dog is what you get, apparently. At least that’s what the ancient Greeks would have us believe. You also get a pretty kick-ass logo for a beer. Cerberus was a [...]
Filed under: Beer, marketing on March 28th, 2011 | 1 Comment »
That’s right, you heard – well, read – me right, gay beer. I’ll bet you never knew that there was such a thing. Well, actually, there wasn’t as far as I know until recently. And why would there be? Beer is beer and where or not you like it has absolutely nothing to do with [...]
Filed under: Beer, marketing on March 4th, 2011 | No Comments »
Anyone who has ever punched a clock has got to admire Steven Slater. In case you just woke up from a coma, he’s the flight attendant who recently decided that he was fed up with customer service and flipped out on a JetBlue flight. There are some conflicting stories about what led up to his [...]
Filed under: Beer, marketing on August 15th, 2010 | 2 Comments »
At least this time it’s not in the US. It seems like our lawmakers hold the world record for irrational fear of the drink. But now we turn our attention to Ontario, Canada where they’ve banned a brand of vodka called Crystal Head. It’s cleverly packaged in what appears to be a crystal skull. That’s [...]
Filed under: Alcohol Law, marketing, Vodka on May 20th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Now, c’mon, this is funny! The tag line, if you couldn’t quite make it out, is “Anything but sweet.” See, the point of that beer ad is to demonstrate that the new Raspberry Ale from Jamieson brewery in Australia isn’t as sweet as one might think, given that it’s a fruit beer. Naturally the best [...]
Filed under: Beer, marketing on October 22nd, 2009 | No Comments »
This comes from Canada where the marketing geniuses at Molson Coors got in some hot water over their cold beer campaign. They’ve been promoting the coldness of their beer – a claim that is completely puzzling to anyone with half a brain – and thought that it would be fun poke some fun at their [...]
Filed under: Beer, coors, marketing on August 28th, 2009 | No Comments »
I’m a snobbish beer geek. I know it; I own it. Therefore I tend to look askance at anything a big brewer does be it Anheuser-Busch, Diego, Miller or Inbev. I always suspect that they are up to something besides making better beer. I’ve softened my view a little in the last couple of years. [...]
Filed under: Beer, guinness, marketing on May 15th, 2009 | No Comments »