No more free beer for Shamu
January 5, 2009 1 Comment 
Busch Entertainment Corp., which has offered free samples of its products at SeaWorld and Busch Gardens for years, will end the tradition this winter. The hospitality houses will close for renovations in late January and will reopen with "cafe-style menu[s]" later this winter sans sample. It's a sad day for, well, everyone. The company didn't provide an explanation for its decision, but rumors that Shamu recently entered a 12-step program have been drastically
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Meet your new world beer pong champions
January 5, 2009 No Comments Yet
Over the weekend, two kids from Long Island walked away as winners of the World Series of Beer Pong IV. Ron Hamilton and Michael Popielarski defeated roughly 400 hundred other teams to take home the $50,000 prize.
Hamilton prepared in style, drinking a bottle of Jack Daniels before beginning. "The key today was me getting real drunk and my partner not missing, and us coming out and proving we're the best," he told the Associated Press after finishing the tournament which
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DRAFT's Where Are You Drinking? game
January 5, 2009 No Comments Yet
We all have favorite bars with distinctive features. The long, marble counter top. The shipping decor on the walls. The friendly drunk on the corner stool.
With DRAFT's new "The Where Are You Drinking?" game, your unending knowledge of bars worldwide can win you a prize. Simply go here and guess the bar we're featuring based on the visual and written clues and you could come away with a DRAFT hat and tee shirt.
We'll get you started with a snippet of the clue:
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Drink some champagne and save the economy
December 31, 2008 No Comments Yet
It's New Year's Eve, which means only one thing: Time to run to the liquor store and buy the biggest, cheapest box of champagne you can and celebrate like mad with your friends.
Sounds like any other year, except given the dire economic situation facing the world, it's even more necessary this year. According to the International Herald Tribune, champagne companies are struggling along with the rest of us: "The major producers like Moet & Chandon or Veuve Clicquot
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David Boreanaz Prefers Cold Blondes
by: Bonnie Siegler
It takes a pretty confident man to say, "Anything that's cold and blonde works for me." But David Boreanaz, the 39-year-old actor who co-stars as Special Agent Seeley Booth on the hit Fox series "Bones," has no qualms with that assertion.
Drinking Buddies: Holly Jolly Cocktails
by: Rick Lyke
During the holiday season, a party isn't truly a party until everyone has a cocktail in hand.
Holiday Beers
by: Don Russell
Anticipating the release of holiday brew isn't exactly new: Don Russell explains that the beer of cheer is pretty much ancient history.
Beer Town: Vail
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On the Cover: David Boreanaz
Fifteen famous fictional beers
December 31, 2008 No Comments Yet
The geniuses behind Legends Of Beer put together an excellent list of 15 fictitious beers you'll never drink because, you know, they don't exist. Highlights include Duff Beer (The Simpsons), Panther Pilsner Beer (The Three Stooges), and Butterbeer (Harry Potter).
We promise you'll learn fascinating facts about your favorite fictional brews. For example, did you know that "While [Benderbrau Cold-Fusion Steam Beer] was never officially released publicly, the Futurama
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What are you doing at 11 a.m. New Year's Day?
December 30, 2008 No Comments Yet
If you happen to be near Indiana, you should head to Scotty's Brewhouse (winners of DRAFTMag.com's impromptu "Most Annoying Web Site" award. Stop yelling at us, announcer guy.) All five locations will open at 11 a.m. for a full day of college football, beer, wings, and dill chips. Sounds just about right after a night of heavy drinking.
Those souls who feel exceptionally brave should head to Scotty's the night before for its New Year's Eve celebration. It runs until 2
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Coors needs truck drivers who don't flip over
December 30, 2008 1 Comment
For the third(!) time this year, a tractor-trailer truck carrying Coors Light flipped over, spilling the beer and forcing the temporary closure of an I-70 on-ramp.
The best part?
"Several kegs of beer rolled down onto adjacent Youngfield Street, said Lisa Stigall, spokeswoman for the Wheat Ridge Police Department.
'There are a lot of cans of beer, since it was a 53-foot-long truck with a 70,000- to 80,000-pound load,' Stigall said."
According to officials on the
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Get a beer. Get a job.
December 30, 2008 No Comments Yet
Pretend for a second that you live in St. Louis and recently got laid off. What would you do in the middle of the day? Why, how about going to a bar, especially if it helped you get a new gig?
Steven Fitzpatrick Smith (a perfect name for a pub owner, no?), proprietor of Royale, is offering a free beer to anyone who comes in and asks for free resume advice from education consultant Allison Trombley who the owner recruited to help his customers.
What's in it for Smith?
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