http://www.boozingear.com/blog News, Information, and Reviews for the beer and liquor industry. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:33:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Have you been to the liquor store lately? The holiday booze has definitely arrived. The most noticeable of the lot are those spirits gift packs. They usually consist of a distiller’s most popular product and a couple of old fashioned glasses. Sometimes, especially with spirits like gin that ... http://www.boozingear.com/blog/2009/11/10/holiday-booze-gift-packs/ If you have young kids, then this is their day. First, you have to strap them into the super hero or cartoon character costume that they excitedly picked out last weekend. Then you herd them out the door and into the street where you cautiously lead them from ... http://www.boozingear.com/blog/2009/10/31/happy-halloween/ 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 ... http://www.boozingear.com/blog/2009/10/22/ho-white-beer-ad/ Did you see the big ad buyout of Saturday Night Live this week? Anheuser-Busch Inbev bought up all of the national advertising on SNL to push their new Bud Light Golden Wheat. The ads ranged from the standard look-at-this-lovely-glass-of-beer-now-go-buy-one tactic to little ad-skits that implied Bud Light Golden Wheat is ... http://www.boozingear.com/blog/2009/10/20/bud-light-golden-wheat-takes-over-snl/ You probably remember a few months ago when every news organization on the planet was fooled for a day by a spoof report that blamed beer pong for the spread of STDs on college campuses. Well, this time it doesn’t seem like a joke. The big worry now is swine ... http://www.boozingear.com/blog/2009/10/19/the-beer-pong-virus-%e2%80%93-this-time-they%e2%80%99re-serious/ Are you sick of this? Are you sick of doing a beer bong but wishing you could share the experience with your girlfriend? And two of her friends? And the guys they’re banging? Well now you can! Thanks to Bongzilla! The answer to all of your multi-beer ... http://www.boozingear.com/blog/2009/10/09/bongzilla-%e2%80%93-the-ultimate-beer-bong/ For a few months, I lived in a small apartment in Kansas City. It was a quiet neighborhood not far from the business district. I worked in the suburbs and when I left for work in the morning, the air was heavy with the smell of coffee. ... http://www.boozingear.com/blog/2009/09/28/the-smell-of-place-whisky-distiller-told-to-stop-stinking/ *Insert your own beer goggles joke here* Let me start out by saying that I don't know anything about the Horny Goat Brewing Company except that it is a brewery in Wisconsin and a really creative marketer works there. I had never heard of it before stumbling across this blog ... http://www.boozingear.com/blog/2009/09/21/free-condoms-with-your-beer/ What kind of Halloween person are you? Are you the type that shows up to your friend's Halloween party in a polo shirt and khaki's with the lame joke that you're an accountant on casual Friday or are you the one that shows up dressed to the nines as ... http://www.boozingear.com/blog/2009/09/18/whats-your-halloween-poison/ No doubt by now you've seen the ads. They are oddly compelling with the Most Interesting Man in the World (MIMW) staring at the camera with an expression that is somewhere between intensity and boredom. After we are told some amusingly cryptic things about how interesting he is ... http://www.boozingear.com/blog/2009/09/16/the-most-insteresting-man-in-the-world/