A collection of drinking stories.

Our opportunity to embrace the common thread that ties the world together, through booze.

If you really need a reason to drink, here's the most complete and comprehensive calendar of drinking days available.

 It's one of the oldest drinking holidays. But you don't have to travel to Munich to celebrate. Get yourself some Oktoberfest beers, some pretzels and schnitzel, and bring Bavaria to your home. 

  Bourdain drank his way around the world... he crawled into the closest bar and boozed himself into a stupor. 

Mojo Nixon was a raving lunatic; a manic, no bullshit, larger-than-life agent of chaos. During my lifetime, many of my heroes have passed, but this one really fucking hurts. 

Can you walk into a bar and trade your AA Chip in for a cocktail? We give you the unfiltered facts.

 World Cocktail Day  dates back to 1806, when The Balance and Columbian Repository coined the term "cocktail" as a stimulating liquor with a wide range of sweets, waters, and bitters. 

I love dive bars. There’s nothing better than sitting alone in a dark, cavernous, smelly old saloon on an afternoon, eating stale popcorn and drinking cheap beer...

 17 bars, six games of pool, and an unknowable number of Miller Lites later, I finally tracked it down. But I could never have prepared myself for what I found along the way. 

 Let’s talk about mezcal.  Not your standard-issue bottle of weak-kneed, lime-chasing agave juice. Nope, we’re talking about mezcal—the fiery nectar of the gods and devils alike. 

Wine snobs soar into fits of apoplexy when the topic boxed wine. comes up.  But you should never judge a wine by its packaging.