Alcohol
Working at a Bar During SantaCon Means Dealing with Lots of Puking Santas
It's a day filled with bathroom sex, street fights, and lots of vomit. Ho ho ho!
This Is Why Relationships in Hospitality Never Work
Hospitality is such a tough bunch of hours that it’s hard to ever actually meet up. I couldn’t even get sexting to work—it really doesn’t flow if you have hour-long gaps between each filthy message.
I Found Him Dangling from the Roof: The Most Insane Office Christmas Parties
"My face was covered in blood, I had a black eye, and my head felt like caving in."
Someone Worked Out How Many Gin and Tonics You Drank This Year
They estimate that the amount consumed equals 1.12 billion gin and tonics across the country, or 28 per every person of legal drinking age.
A ‘Living Room with a Licence’ Is Strengthening This Manchester Community
“In Stretford, there isn’t much of a sense of pride towards the community,” says Heather Garlick, who opened her homely bar in the Manchester suburb two years ago. “I wanted to create somewhere integrated.”
Why We Need to Be Talking About New Zealand Musicians’ Mental Health
New research reveals Kiwis working in the music industry are more than twice as likely to have suicidal thoughts than the general population.
Thailand’s First Hops Farmers Are About to Give the Local Craft Brewing Scene a Major Boost
It takes extraordinary measures to keep hops alive in Thailand’s hostile climate, but beer-loving brothers Teerapat and Nattachai Ungsriwong have managed to do just that.
Ultra-Premium Tequila Is Winning Over Wealthy Americans
With competition intensifying, leading tequila brands are turning to increasingly lavish, experimental creations and even high-tech collaborations in a bid to stand out.
Mike Baird Is Relaxing Sydney's Lockout Laws
Lockouts at "venues that offer genuine live entertainment, live performances, or art and cultural events" will shift to 2 AM from January.
This Airport Just Banned Passengers from Drinking More Than Two Glasses of Wine
So long, Terminal 2 chardonnay.
This Is the Mariah Carey of Mulled Wine
London sommelier Frederic Marti’s mulled wine is decadent to the point of being OTT and galaxies away from the tepid plonk served at Winter Wonderland funfairs.
Why This Bar Industry Leader Just Gave Away His Secrets for Free
Last month, Chris Lowder posted his manual for making 178 modern cocktail classics on Facebook, which has since blown up with thanks, praise, and questions from knowledge-hungry bartenders around the world.