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American Craft Distilling Training Course

Have you ever thought of becoming a distiller? It seems like one of those unattainable dream careers reserved for only a select few and it's one that many people envy: "You get to make booze all day? That sounds like heaven." For some time it was reserved for those with a lot of capitol and great marketing behind them, left for the "big brands" of the liquor industry, and for the risk-taking, law breaking moonshiner. Recently, though, there has been a resurgence in American craft distilleries

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Poll: Would you like to see bars offer more specialty non-alcoholic drinks?

I have been taking the roll of designated driver a lot lately and that experience, along with a recent article on The American Mixologist (Tapping into the Alcohol-Free Crowd), has made me realize the limited options available to the non-drinker in many bars. Sure, you can have soda, coffee, water, or your choice of juice, but what else is there in the way of non-alcoholic drinks? To find anything mixed with the creativity that alcohol drinks are and that is not a Shirley Temple or a Lime and

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A Bloody Mary Good Morning!

Welcome to the first day of 2010! Chances are that if you are on my website this morning (or what seems like morning to you right now) you are looking for some relief from that nasty hangover. While there are many remedies that range from drinking orange juice, sports drinks or some protein drink that will make your stomach curdle to (I love this one) the old Irish way of burying the ailing person to their neck in river sand, there is one tried and true hangover "cure" that is simple: drink a

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That's a Binge Belly, Not a Beer Belly

That's not a beer belly -- it's a binge belly. Drinking a lot of beer, booze, or wine once a month makes your belly bigger than drinking a little every day, a large European study finds ...

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Older People Are Binge Drinkers, Too

Older people as well as aging baby boomers may be turning to booze and binge drinking, a new study says ...

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answer to the hangover is top shelf booze.

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Alcohol Quiz

Booze, hooch, devil's brew. Whatever name you call it, alcohol is really just a combination of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen molecules. But this simple compound can have a complicated effect on our bodies. How do we process alcohol, and what lasting marks can it leave? ...

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Booze Tube: TV Alcohol Ups Real Drinking

Watching alcohol use portrayed in movies and in alcohol ads makes young men drink more beer and wine, Dutch researchers find ...

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Daydrinking the sponsor's booze ... and loving it

One of the best parts about having a liquor distributor as the main sponsor of OnMilwaukee.com Bar Month is that I feel obliged to try its tasty products. It didn't take much arm twisting to get a few of my co-workers to join me.

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Miramar's Stace expands to South Side's Modjeska

Bill Stace will expand his entertainment empire to the South Side. Stace will host shows at the Modjeska Theatre on Mitchell Street after he gets a liquor license from the Common Council. The Licenses Committee gave its approval last week.

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