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

Cheap Happy Hour in NYC

Credit to Time Out NY for this Cheap Happy hour list, we have a building list as well, we’ll produce shortly. Cheers! Acme Bar & Grill The secret of this po’ boy and jambalaya purveyor is that if you scoot past the tables and step up to the back bar on a Tuesday, tap beers …

Clothing Drive for Beer

Oh Bud Light… you’re highly financed ad department continues to keep us entertained, even if you’re beer does not… Love this:

Coming to the UK: Shatter proof pint glasses?

87,000 are reported to getting “glassed” by unruly UK bar patrons (reported, I’m sure this rises above 100,000 a year) which is … well, a lot! Rather than reduce the cause of these incidents, some UK glass makers have decided to embrace their scrappy culture and just redesign pint glasses to reduce breakage. Margaret Ryan …

How much is your bar making on you?

Having a hundred dollar night drinking in the city is just expected when you’re boozing anything more than beer or wine. With Rob Cockerham’s cocktail calculator, you can figure out how much profit your bar is making off the 7 Bombay Tonic’s you just pounded over the last 4 hours (at you’re typical Manhattan lounge, …

Finally BK catches on, adds Beer to Beverage List – Times Square NY

Hoping to expand their customer base by adding the drunk douchebag tourist element, the Burger King in Times Square New York is adding beer to the beverage list. Now for $7.99, a 21+ customer can purchase a whopper combo with Miller or Bud instead of soda ($2.00 more). From the Daily News: Arnold Lyons, 58, …

Aussie Day at the Sunburnt Cow this Tuesday the 26th

Australia day, is the anniversary of ships arriving in Sydney carrying a load of Convicts. So get crazy, criminal drunk at the Sunburnt Cow in Alphabet City. 3 Happy Hours for $20. If you can’t make it to WV, the same deal is had at Bondi Road in LES and The Sunburnt Calf in UWS. …

Happy New Years from GPC

We at GPC watch and recommend Zane Lamprey and his eclectic collection of inebriated friends drink their way through travel on their show Three Sheets. Here’s one of their latest for the new year – his International pub crawl. (Something we’d love to accomplish but as he notes, it’s quite difficult geographically without proper transportation. …

Karaoke PubCrawl in Chinatown – Sat, Dec 12th

We are counting down the days to the end of what TIME magazine calls the Decade of Hell – bookended by 9/11 at the start, financial meltdown at the end, and whole lotta Bush years in the middle. There’s still a lot of uncertainty and world unrest moving forward but let’s take some time to …

Premium low-alcohol cocktail anyone?

This is a Russian advertisement for a “Low-alcohol” yet “Premium” drink. The obvious context here is you can drink low-alcohol cocktails, drink and drive and still get hot sleepy women who’ll fondle your dragon… The ChinaTown by day is not much better because I can’t even figure a context: Maybe their ChinaTown is just that …