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more about #beer more comments → Miss Anita Manbadly: This again? This was test marketed in the mid-80's as beer-flavored schnapps. That product had the same alcohol content as this penguin nonsense and... more » drunkexpatwriter: That's going to taste like shit. In France they have several high alcohol beers (none that strong) and they end up tasting like carbonated wine. more » SpyMagician: Who is this for? Alcoholics who cannot buy wine or harder booze yet can buy expensive beer? more » randomnessish: $50 a bottle?? For extremely alcoholic beer? I'm sticking to my NyQuil and Burnetts, kthanx (but then again I'm in college) more » Smitros: The homeless, some of whom have demons other than alcohol, can get much more cost-effective skullpop if that's what they're looking for. That would h... more » lolgreg: I've been wanting to try some of BrewDogs stuff for a while now. I'll probably start off with something below 50 bucks a bottle though. more » Cam/ron: BrewDog actually produces a decent stout but something tells me that like many "extreme beers," this Penguin is a hop-bomb. more » Airvault: Fine whiskey, Frank Zappa, and ghosts of Thanksgivings past. Well I've got my evening. more » TedSez: Damn Scots with their cheaper, higher-alcohol brews. This makes Sam Adams Utopias, at 27 percent alcohol and $100 per bottle, look like shite. [en.wi... more » BowlingForDollars: I just stash airplane bottles of Jack Daniel's in the glove compartment. Then I take "walks" and go get them. more » raincoaster: Paging J*l*a A*l*s*n's next boyfriend... #hipsters more » onebadclam: Pabst Blue Ribbon. The Embodiment Of Cool. #hipsters more » intime: I would buy Pabst, but only if Laverne and Shirley are still working there. #hipsters more » Botswana Meat Commission FC: This is actually kind of amazing if you're familiar with the history of the Pabst brand. It's value was next to nothing when it was bought back in the... more » goetz: Maybe the Weinstein Co. will buy it, let it lose value, and then sell it to some enterprising and naive European royal. #hipsters more » -
#beer
Need a Drink?
Family holidays can be stressful. And hitting the hard liquor will just cause lips to be pursed and tuts to be tutted. But the solution is here in the form of 32 per cent alcohol beer. More » -
#funnyjokes
Pabst Brewing Co. Sale Sure to Be 'Hip' (Ha)
Pabst Brewing Company, maker of PBR, is going up for sale. Oh we know who should buy it: A hipster! Hahahaha. Sure, try finding a hipster with $300 million! Hahaha. Maybe for beer they'd find it! Haha. [NYP. Pic: LATFH] -
#sadthings
Climate Change, You've Gone Too Far: Our Beer.
Good golly, does climate change and its evil, earth-shattering impact know no bounds? Apparently not, because researchers have now chalked up a new victim. And that victim is beer. More » -
#cubicleculture
The Twitter Frat House
Twitter's been repeatedly brought down this month by attacks from global hackers, attacks that sysadmins at rival Google managed to deflect. What better time to tinker with the elaborate process of home beer brewing? More » -
#strangebrew
A Cop, a Politician and a Professor Walk Into a Bar...
The only political news anyone (well, anyone in the White House press corps) cares about is the White House beer toast between Barack Obama, Henry Louis Gates and Cambridge cop James Crowley. Will a drunken brawl break out? Probably not. More » -
#marketing
At Least You Have Beer In a Box
Are you a sad football-watching drunk who wants nothing more than to guzzle cheap American beer and pass out in front of the flickering televised sporting contest, momentarily forgetting your copious problems? No, you're the future of beer marketing! More » -
#drinking
The Rotgut Economy
Yes, everyone drinks more in a recession, but they drink the cheapest, vilest swill they can find. The New York Times reports while wine sales are up, the industry is hurting because high-end wines are in a tailspin. More » -
#parties
Randall Terry's Free Beer, Wings, and Hate Party Not Well-Attended
Anti-abortion radical Catholic Mullah Randall Terry threw a press conference with free chicken wings and Guinness for journalists, yesterday. It did not boost attendance, really. More » -
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#schwag
Free Hot Wings at Pro-Right Wing Violence Press Conference!
This is how you do press relations: journalists who attend right-wing nut Randall Terry's upcoming "George Tiller's murder is great news for the pro-life movement" press conference will get free beer and wings! More » -
#advertising
Breakthrough Beer Ad Uses Awkwardness of Purchasing Porn for Comedic Effect
This sexuadvertisingly-transmitted viral has been going around quietly for a while but we haven't seen it since we're not beer-guzzling porn freaks (professionally). We're sad to admit that this vibrator-featuring Bud Light ad is amusing on its own merits: More » -
#nsfw
Breasts: Will They Appeal to Beer Drinkers?
Oh look, a beer company has employed the advertising tactic of "Blonde girl showing her breasts," in order to make you, the consumer, amenable to purchasing beer. The breast-revealing ad is on YouTube! But for how long? NSFW thing below: More » -
#advertising
8 Mile as a Truffaut Film
"What would the battle scene from 8 Mile look like if it was reimagined as a pretentious black-and-white French film?" Stella Artois' ad agency wondered, for some reason. More » -
#collegedaze
John Thain's Beer-Sponsored Canoe Race Scandal
John Thain recently got into a bit of trouble for aiding the collapse of global capitalism. But he survived this scandal from his MIT says, so surely he'll weather this storm. The college thing? More »
