Kegger at the governor’s mansion!
Not to be outdone by his counterpart in Virginia, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has had beer taps installed in his mansion. It needs to be said, wearing a suit all day is stressful work, that’s why...
View ArticleThe drinking dead
Are you bored with your Downton Abbey wine? Growing tired of the latest Game of Thrones beer? Perhaps it’s time you started drinking another TV-flavored booze. In a tribute to AMC’s The Walking Dead,...
View ArticleBreaking news: People drinking at World Cup
In 2003, Brazil realized that its soccer fans were getting a bit too drunk and rowdy during matches, so it banned the sale of alcohol in “football” stadiums. (It would make more sense to ban soccer,...
View ArticleThe McBournie Minute: Beer vending machines signal end of humanity
God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates robots. Robots destroy man. It’s the shadow of a dark future looming over our heads. All the time we are building smarter and more automated machines, on...
View ArticleMan falls out of train, paper more concerned about his beer
We to make fun of the news here at SG, but it’s very rare that we get to make fun of the news as well as how it’s being covered. Let’s see what the Moscow Times has for us today. Challenging the...
View ArticleCow goes on a mission to ruin Oktoberfest
Just a day after we told you that there are radioactive boars in Germany, we have even more shocking animals news, and this time it affects Oktoberfest. In Munich, a cow somehow escaped from the...
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Do you hate your friends enough to buy them a beer?
Then you can go home make a candle out of it, and weep for your lost dignity. Remember back when Facebook had the “poke” feature? You could click the button on someone’s profile, and the next time they...
View ArticleGet your own beer, boar!
Folks, we all know that animals are a threat to our safety, but it turns out that more importantly, they’re a threat to our booze. In Australia, a wild boar got into some brews at a campground. By...
View ArticleThe McBournie Minute: 4 ways beer is good for you
Wine kind of sucks. It’s the only type of alcohol that comes in a big bottle and goes bad if you don’t drink it all. It also makes you look like you have lipstick on. No one has ever talked about a...
View ArticleIf you’re an alcoholic, Essen will pay you in beer
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade–unless you’re in Germany, then make shandy. That’s exactly what the city of Essen is doing in an attempt to make its alcoholic homeless more useful. Essen is...
View ArticleTime to get wrecked: Brewery recreates beer from 1842 shipwreck
Four years ago we told you about some beer and champagne from the 1840s that was found in a shipwreck at the bottom of the Baltic Sea near Finland. Then we told you when some of the champagne went up...
View ArticleWhy you heard burps in the voting booth yesterday
The mid-term election campaign that ended yesterday was one of the most expensive in American history, and no one even cared about it. Just imagine how much worse it will be in two years! But the...
View ArticleThe McBournie Minute: How not to suck at beer, running
I run. There, I said it. I don’t marathons or anything, and I try not to brag about my accomplishments. Let’s face it, we’ve all seen one of those “26.2” stickers on a car and given serious thought to...
View ArticleStudy: You come from a family of drinkers going back 10 million years
Raise a glass to your ancestor from 10 million years ago. It’s because of them that you and drink in the first place. We’ve known that people have gotten drunk for thousands of years, scientists even...
View ArticleThe McBournie Minute: Food nostalgia must die
America is the eating champion of the world, and we have been for 72-years straight. No one can eat like us. They don’t even come close. We compete against each other to eat the most hot dogs, pies and...
View ArticleBeer can be used as tasty, refreshing weapon
Do you have a problem with rowdy youths in your neighborhood? Is it a huge risk for you just to talk to the store to buy a couple things at night? Then you should try beer. A 50-year-old Boston-area...
View ArticlePraise the Lord and pass the napkins
Many a man has sat in church wishing he was at the bar watching football and drinking beer. For the lucky patrons of a Buffalo Wild Winds in Birmingham, Alabama, now they can do both. A local church...
View ArticleCanadian Navy no longer has beer machines on its ships
It’s probably fun to serve in the Canadian Navy. You just hang out with a bunch of your buddies on a cruise and occasionally shoot at polar bears, we assume. But it’s going to be a little less cool...
View ArticleDrinking really does solve your problems
As you head back to work this week, you may find yourself hitting a wall on a project with no solution in sight. Science says you should get a good buzz going. Research has shown that if your BAC is...
View ArticleThe McBournie Minute: Everyone chill out, craft beer will be fine
I follow craft beer news, so when I see something make headlines in non-beer-geek news outlets, it’s always surprising to me. I’ve been surprised quite a bit lately. As with any industry, there’s the...
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