“Wine. Immediately.” The depressing reason so many women today drink (Excerpt)
“Wine. Immediately.” The depressing reason so many women today drink (Excerpt) Source: vox.com Kristi Coulter August 23, 2016 I’m newly sober and I’m wearing unwise (but cute, so cute) shoes at the farmers market. It’s a beautiful summer day. I trip, cracking my phone, blood-staining the knees of my favorite jeans, and scraping […]
Scientists Are Torn Over Whether a ‘Healthy Drinking Habit’ Actually Exists
Scientists Are Torn Over Whether a ‘Healthy Drinking Habit’ Actually Exists Researchers and the alcohol industry are in a battle over booze. Is there such thing as a healthy drinking habit? Source: attn.com August 22nd There are definitely studies that say yes. Two different studies – one from 1990 and another from […]
Response to Stanford University’s new alcohol policy
Response to Stanford University’s new alcohol policy Source: Distilled Spirits Council by Kraig R. Naasz, President & CEO, Distilled Spirits Council August 23, 2016 Stanford University President John L. Hennessy is to be commended for his desire to address incidents of alcohol abuse on campus. However, while well-intentioned, policies that single out distilled […]
Stanford bans hard alcohol on campus
Stanford bans hard alcohol on campus Source: The Spirits Business by Nicola Carruthers 23rd August, 2016 Stanford University has introduced a new policy to prohibit hard alcohol from undergraduate campus parties following the Brock Turner sexual assault case. In an announcement on Monday, the elite northern Californian school ruled that “hard alcohol” […]
Americans Love Their Tequila Shots Even as Trump Bashes Mexico
Americans Love Their Tequila Shots Even as Trump Bashes Mexico Source: bloomberg.com Jennifer Kaplan August 23rd While Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s supporters chant “build the wall,” more Americans are drinking beer and tequila imported from what would be on the other side. The largest alcohol producers are stressing the need to […]
With Moderate Drinking Under Fire, Alcohol Companies Go on Offensive
With Moderate Drinking Under Fire, Alcohol Companies Go on Offensive Public-health officials who long said light drinking was good for the heart are now warning of cancer risks, causing ripples through the alcohol industry Source: By Justin Scheck and Tripp Mickle Aug. 22, 2016 At a brewers’ conference this spring, an alcohol […]
MA: Legislature shoots down liquor law revamp
MA: Legislature shoots down liquor law revamp The Andover Townsman August 18, 2016 Nearly everyone agrees that the state’s current liquor laws are antiquated, and cities and towns regularly have to petition their way around them. So why is it, when two governors now — one Democratic, one Republican — have said it’s […]
Amazing photos capture how faces change after 1, 2 and 3 glasses of wine
Amazing photos capture how faces change after 1, 2 and 3 glasses of wine Source: The Telegraph Mark Molloy 20 August 2016 Wine fans will undoubtedly appreciate this fun photo project which captures how faces change when alcohol has been consumed. Brazilian photographer Marcos Alberti captured his friends when they had drunk […]
What Is Craft?
What Is Craft? What is craft, as in ‘craft distillery’? Source: The Chuck Cowdery Blog Saturday, August 20, 2016 The dictionary offers a little help. The most nearly relevant dictionary definition is: “denoting or relating to food or drink made in a traditional or non-mechanized way by an individual or a small […]
Liquor to be made available online in Kerala from Onam
Liquor to be made available online in Kerala from Onam Consumerfed is the apex body of consumer cooperatives and has 36 retail liquor outlets in Kerala Business Standard IANS, Thiruvananthapuram August 18, 2016 In a move sure to raise the spirits of devotees of Bachhus in Kerala amid talks of “tweaking” the state liquor […]