Month: May 2008

New York pub crawls: Because your regular drinking dens are like following the spin-dry cycle

What kind of party can you rip for $2000

Bottle service has been the demise of the club scene since it’s apparent inception in 1995 (David Sarner and Michael Ault make bottle service mandatory for VIP-room access at Spy Bar; by 2001 the trend has spread from NYC to Miami and Vegas *from History of Bottle service*). As Sarner states, the focus is not …

Wine Barrel Beer

While surrounded by fields of grapes and makers of some of the worlds finest vino, Russian River Brewing Company went the other way and created the first brewery in Sonoma to use wine barrels to produce beer. RRBC age the brews in wine-seasoned oak barrels with wild yeast and bacteria for a year or two, …

1st World Series of Beer Pong

Our generation grew up with video games. At the arcade, pizza joint, at your friends house that has the better controller… Through college games became the distraction from school work, the prep before going out, the alternative to a bogus party, the wind down from the night out or like some of us a focus …

Don’t drink the coal juice

Courtesy of Chinese black market: I’ll take a “Joens Danhsels” (from Tendessee) with coke, and my Red Square & Johnnie Worker Black Labial neat. Thanks….

Esquire’s version of Best Bars in America

Esquire is not a consistent read for GPCer’s primarily because of it’s over abundance of advertising which overtakes too many pages which would normally be set aside for gratuitous sexual exploitation (see this months cover tease with Jessica Simpson). This month they have their annual and ridiculous “Best Bars in America” list published. Yet again …

Bacon and Beer fest!

MAY 12 – 15 – Bacon and Summer Beer Week at Jimmy’s No. 43 in E Village on 7th. and 2nd Ave. They will be featuring food with bacon and summer beers on through May 15th. Get down there or visit www.jimmysno43.com / call 212 982 3006 for more info Jimmy’s is a good beer …

Whiskey business: Myths of Jack Daniel

The legend of Jack Daniel reaches all the way back to the moment he was born. Unfortunately, nobody knows exactly when that was. Jack Daniel believed the more memorable his image, the more memorable his whiskey. Some records show that Jasper Newton “Jack” Daniel came into the world on September 5, 1846. His tombstone, however, …

Blue Ribbon Burial?

Now here’s a man that takes his love of the brew to new levels…. 6 feet to be exact – and at least he’ll get plenty of use out of this thing as a party cooler for many years to come… SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. – Bill Bramanti will love Pabst Blue Ribbon eternally, and …

Amsterdam Ave Heritage Festival with Heineken

New York City, a Dutch colony in the 1600s known as New Amsterdam, will serve as the base for a mock “Dutch Takeover” on May 15 to support a new campaign by Heineken and Amstel Ligh. This effort to “reclaim” the Amsterdam Avenue section of Manhattan will include a nod to the bicycle culture of …