8 Dangerous Combinations of Shots and Beer

Any experienced drinker can tell you that few things get you plowed like a combination of beer and shots. As soon as hard liquor and the ‘juice of the barley’ are mixed in the stomach you can be sure of 2 things: you should be prepared to experience any kind of drunkness and you better…

How Alcohol Played a Key Role in Warfare around the World

For centuries alcohol has always played an important, and sometimes decisive, role  in warfare. As it brought the troups moral and courage in many armies the intake of booze was allowed or even stimulated. Other commanders believed it was best to keep their troops as sober as possible, so they wouldn’t go out of control.…

The drunk man’s alphabet

A true drinker is constantly remembered of alcohol. Don’t blame us for that, it’s society’s fault. Reminders of booze are simply everywhere. Don’t believe it? Can you say without blinking that an oak tree doesn’t make you thirsty? No? Oak, cork, wine, let’s drink! Or what about a documentary on animals in African savanna traveling…

10 times “When life gives you lemons” for drunkards

Internet is booming with all kinds of advice. Who doesn’t know the phrase “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”? Well, we have no doubt that the people who share this cliché have the best intentions, but the advice itself of course sucks. If life would actually give you a shitload of lemons, would the fabrication…

The Deter-Gin cocktail

Summertime is coming, and the thirst is getting bigger and bigger. A couple of beers is a perfect option, but the soft drink called Radler – a low-alcohol mixture of beer and lemonade – is flooding the market and substituting the real booze on many tables. Nick Polly tells you how to make this cute…