October 19 is a celebration of the working class. This nation wasn’t built on anything fancy. It was built on the promise of cold beer after long, grueling days...

 There’s a holy trinity in this cruel, beautiful world: bread, cheese, and beer. Everything else is garnish. October 9 is International Beer and Pizza Day. It’s time to celebrate that savage harmony...

 October 4 is Buy a Stranger a Drink Day, a celebration of camaraderie, goodwill, and humanity’s eternal love affair with booze, boldness, and the bizarrely beautiful art of meeting strangers in dimly lit bars. 

Oktoberfest isn’t a festival, it’s a fever dream that Bavaria keeps having and refuses to wake up from. Munich throws open its gates every fall, and millions of pilgrims stagger in,  chasing beer steins, roast chicken, and  pretzels. 

 Let’s set the record straight: the Mai Tai isn’t some sugary swamp poured from a Slurpee machine at a beachside resort with a sad maraschino cherry and a paper umbrella jammed into it like a crime scene...

 Historians will tell you the first official distillation happened in the 1600s. But don’t believe for a second that people weren’t getting delightfully wrecked on fermented cane juice long before the ink dried on any logbook. 

A dive bar is more than just a place to kick back and relax. It’s where we mark out life’s plans, celebrate its successes, and make memories to treasure. We make friends who become family and remember those who have left us behind.

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

 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.