Alcohol
Putting Free Pregnancy Tests in Bars Is a Great Idea
Alaskan bars and restaurants are installing pregnancy test vending machines across the state as part of a state-funded move by the University of Alaska to combat Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
How to Go to a Festival in Your Twenties
The Noisey handbook to taking drugs, doing it with strangers, and getting messed up in a field once you're old enough to feel shame.
How-To: Make a Taurus Cocktail
Lee Tiernan touches down in San Francisco to learn how to make a Taurus cocktail with bartender extraordinaire Josh Harris.
The Quebec Liquor Board Has Crushed Montreal’s Dream of 6 AM Bar Closures
Montreal became the envy of many cities in Canada when mayor Denis Coderre announced a plan to launch a month-long pilot project that would see some bars open until 6 AM and have last call at 5:30. Alas, the fun police aka the liquor board shut things...
Everyone Needs to Stop Freaking Out About the Impending Whiskey Shortage
The news you've heard is true—we're suffering from a whiskey shortage. But there's no reason to freak out about it. It's not going anywhere.
Alabama's Moonshine Task Force Is Closing In on the Last Few Aging Bootleggers
The ABC Board, which operates a statewide monopoly on liquor sales, is funded by a liquor tax and performs its own enforcement. Recently, enforcement has taken the form of a massive crackdown on their only competition: moonshiners.
Why I'll Never Order a Drink From a 'Ladies' Menu
Gender separation is fine. Sometimes. Not sharing toilets or changing rooms with people who have penises is really okay with me. But being presented with a gender-divided drinks menu is—even if it is just a cheap marketing ploy—a bit too Victorian for...
Quantified Drunk: I Got Hammered with Wearables in Berlin's Berghain Nightclub
The goal was to mold a liquid Berlin Saturday night out into a dry cluster of data, graphs, and stats.
Packet Alcohol Delivers a Serious Hangover in Sierra Leone
Pouches of potent alcohol referred to generically as “packet alcohol,” are more abundant than purified water in some regions of West Africa.
RIP, Phrosties
New York Senator Chuck Schumer killed the city's not-so-secret underground booze craze before it even began. But he can have my Phrostie when he pries it from my cold, drunk hands.
How-To: Make a Gin-Based Bloody Mary
Everyone seems to know someone who claims to have the best Bloody Mary recipe, but we'll bet they've never thought to swap in gin instead of vodka. Austin-based bartender Chris Bostick shows us how to make one of these glorious beverages.
The Stench of the World’s Best-Selling Spirit Makes Westerners Puke
I went to Shanghai and tried baijiu, a popular liquor that accounts for more than a third of all spirits consumed worldwide.