WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica's ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whiskey that has been on the rocks since a century ago.

Expecting mothers who have an alcoholic drink or two a week do no harm to their unborn children and may have sons who are better behaved, a study said.

Hint: it's not Cuervo Gold

$60 will soon net you 750 milliliters of the first legal American absinthe (i.e. not imported from elsewhere, or smuggled in). Pricy. Wonder if it's worth it.

Mama Juana is a drink from the Dominican Republic that is concocted by allowing rum, red wine, and honey to soak into a bottle together with tree bark and herbs. The taste is quite similar to port wine and color is deep red.

Scientists have shown that it’s not just a lowering of standards - alcohol actually stimulates the part of the brain that judges facial attractiveness.

"I have a favorite drunkard. He was an athlete—a professional wrestler in fact—but he was also a gifted entertainer and a true artist. His name ... was Andre the Giant."

"5. You order one of the strongest drinks we make (Grape Nehi, Long Island, etc...) and then tell me it "tastes like medicine, I can't drink this." Die in fire."

"TURKEY BOMB, the first known programming-language-cum-drinking-game, evolved independently on four seperate continents and was widely used as an implementation base for computer operating systems for several centuries."

Alcohol meets Web 2.0 or a folksonomy or whatever nonsense they're using these days.

Open-source beer!