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Booze in the News will expand your drinking horizons and keep you up-to-date with all the happenings in the world of drinking with beer, liquor, and drinking news, stories, announcements, cool gadgets, statistics, advice, health tips and cool offbeat stuff. Listen to Zane and the crew discuss news in alcohol each Wednesday on the Drinking Made Easy Podcast. Have a story worthy of Booze in the News? Email us at zanelamprey@gmail.com. You can also subscribe to the Drinking Made Easy Newsletter to get great stories and updates sent to you directly!
Flavored Whiskeys Lead in Spirits Market Growth
First came the rush of flavored vodkas, now flavored whiskeys may be following suite. Flavored whiskeys have become the fastest growing spirit type for the first quarter of 2012. Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey lead
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Teens Resort to Hand Sanitizer to Get Drunk
One of the latest trends of teenage desperation has been to drink hand sanitizer in order to get drunk. At least 6 incidents have been reported in Los Angeles of kids being immited to
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Jim Beam buys Pinnacle Vodka and Calico Jack Rum
Jim Beam is now planning to enter the vodka and rum categories of the industry by buying Pinnacle Vodka and Calico Jack Rum from White Rock Distilleries for $605 million, cash. Aside from Jim
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Craft Beer Exports Grow 86%
The Brewers Association reports that craft beer exports have grown by 86% in 2011, setting a new record. American craft breweries exported a total of 110,000 barrels of beer valued at an estimated $23.3
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Rebootizer
Have you ever had a dream night out that got a little too wild and the morning after felt like a living nightmare? Have you had a busy work week that made you so
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Spray to Get Drunk? Maybe not
Last week, the internet was ablaze with a new device that claimed to offer an instantaneous drunk feeling for a few seconds with no hangover or negative side-effects. Seems like a dream come true
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Bikini Bottle Opener
Bottle openers are put on everything, but this one seems pretty OK with us. The Bottle Belly Bikini features a stylish buckle on the hip that can be used as a beer bottle opener. Would
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New Film ‘Lawless’ Focused on Moonshiners
Shia Labouf and Tom Hardy will be starring in a new prohibition-era film focused on a group of violent, bootlegging brothers who smuggle their moonshine into Franklin County. Along with a great cast ( Tom
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Where Can You Drink on the Streets in the US?
In almost every place in America it is illegal to drink in public. The actual law, known as the open container law, prohibits the possession of open containers of alcohol. Which means you don’t
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Ridiculously Expensive Cocktails
During Three Sheets and Drinking Made Easy we have come across many elaborate drinks, limited edition spirits, and high-priced libations. These drinks are usually treated with high esteem and carry with them some sort of history,
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