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Drunk shopping is a $45B industry. Here's what people are buying.
What percentage of alcohol-consuming Americans shop drunk? How much do they spend? What do they buy? We ran a survey to find out.
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Could ‘alcosynth’ provide all the joy of booze – without the dangers?
Scientist David Nutt memorably said alcohol is more dangerous than crack. Now, he is trying to invent a healthy synthetic alternative, and the race is on to get it to market.
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Why is your wine crying? Scientists say shock waves likely play a role
Alcohol content, the pour, and shape of the glass are also factors in wine tears.
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The Race to Build the World’s Best Bourbon Barrel
Boutique and established cooperages around the country are trying to reinvent the whiskey barrel.
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This Brewery Is Selling a Beer That Tastes Like a Bowl of Lucky Charms
If you’re one of the people who, like Kylie Jenner, prefers Lucky Charms with the marshmallows only, then we’ve got a beer for you. Smartmouth Brewing Co., a brewery in Norfolk, Virginia known for its wild flavor creations, is releasing a Lucky Charms flavored IPA beer—and apparently it’s “magically ridiculous.”
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In debates about drug use, fun is important
People who use party drugs say it gives them energy to dance and socialise, reduces their inhibitions and enhances their feelings of connection to others.
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"Beer Before Wine" Hangover Myth Finally Explained by Alcohol Researchers
Across societies and in different languages, the same drinking tip is passed on from one drunkard to another. Whether it’s in German (Wein auf Bier, das rat ich Dir — Bier auf Wein, das lass sein), French (Bière sur vin est venin, vinsur bière est belle manière), or even English (Beer before wine and you’ll feel fine; wine before beer and you’ll feel queer), the same truth remains — each one is terrible advice. Ensuing hangovers likely served as fact-checks before, but a new study officially disproves these bits of folk wisdom with science.
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Fancy a sip of 3D-printed whisky?
A lab in San Francisco claims its artificial whisky rivals the real thing. Henry Wilkins pours himself a glass
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How I let drinking take over my life
The long read: Five years after his last taste of alcohol, William Leith tries to understand its powerful magic
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Turkey’s magical hangover cure
Pickles are an integral staple of Turkish cuisine, and a glass of pickle juice is famed as a quick, tasty and natural cure for even the fiercest of headaches.
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Canada’s Christmas tree in a bottle
First developed by Canada’s indigenous peoples, spruce beer was commonly used to prevent scurvy, even by French navigator Jacques Cartier. Today, it continues to have a following.
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Dan Tana's Veteran Bartender Can Drink 20 Shots a Night and Has Kept 50 Years of Hollywood Secrets
"My nickname is Dr. Kevorkian Slow Death. I feed [people] alcohol, I feed them cigarettes, I feed them Viagra." By Eduardo L. Perro.
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Drinking Alcohol…How to Know When to Stop? - Clinic Les Alpes
Maybe you are one of these persons who can go out one evening with friends, enjoy a couple of drinks without feeling the need for more. Or maybe, with time, your style of drinking has become more secret and more frequent, until a time comes where you realise you can’t function without alcohol in your system. You realise that the negative effects of your drinking habit surpass its benefits and the pleasure you once felt. Shame and guilt suddenly surface in your mind as you try to keep your compulsions under control. Until you finely ask yourself the big question…
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The World's Oldest Bottle of Wine
Aged 1,693 years, its contents are probably still safe to drink.
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Britain leads way as teenage drinking falls across Europe
Teenage drinking has declined across Europe, with the most dramatic falls in Britain, the World Health Organization has found.
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Just a few drinks can change how memories are formed
Researchers at Brown found that alcohol hijacks a conserved memory pathway in the brain and changes which versions of genes are made, forming the cravings that fuel addiction.
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Ax-throwing bar deemed unsafe, has liquor license suspended for 1 day
Hub Stadium, an Auburn Hills bar that features axe-throwing lanes, had its liquor license suspended by the Michigan Liquor Control Commission for one day in order to develop new safety procedures and precautions. Candy asses.
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Fancy a 13,000-year-old beer, anyone?
Researchers believe they have found the world's oldest brewery in a prehistoric cave in Israel.
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Bourbon Vs. Bourbon: Did Whiskey Really Taste Better in the 1800s?
If you ship whiskey on a river, does it taste better? We wanted to know, so we ran an experiment.
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Take My Drink… Please
The Carol Burnett Show
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