origins of the phrase "free lunch"

"Former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke was at one time the world record holder, for fastest skolling of a yard of beer". Diagram of various drinking glass shapes is nice, too

5000 years of beautiful tradition

extreme beer geekery. Good to skim just for the language

google maps + happy hour schedules

You, Bordeaux, are like a friend / who is, in grief and in calamity, at all times, everywhere a comrade / ready to render us a service / or share our quiet leisure.

sounds a lot like the subway

funny and very correct post about (the absence of) casual drinking in china

clearly fieldwork is required

weirdly jocular article about Russian alcoholism. Those wacky russkies with their 52 year life expectancy!

some interesting statistics on homicide and cirrhosis rates, as well as price changes for alcohol, during US prohibition

using deuterium concentration and site specificity to figure out what fruit/vegetable alcohol was distilled from