Win Big Playing Beer Pong

Nick Syrigos (left) and Dan Ranger react after winning the $50,000 WSOBP VI.

Congratulations Team Standing Ovation on winning WSOBP VI!
WSOBP VI Results: Day 1 Stats - Day 2 Stats - Final Brackets

The World Series of Beer Pong is the largest, longest-running organized beer pong (aka Beirut) tournament in the world, created by beer pong players, for beer pong players. Last years event drew over 800 participants from 45 U.S. States and 5 Canadian Provinces, offering the largest payout in beer pong history of $50,000. Games are played on 8-foot BPONG Tables, and WSOBP Rules govern all gameplay. Players may buy-in to the event at any time prior to Dec. 10, 2010, or they may choose to win their way to the event by competing in an official Satellite Tournament. For other questions, please review the FAQ, and remember to pong happy.

Note: Before emailing us with questions, READ THE F.A.Q.!

When: January 1-5, 2011 (Saturday - Wednesday)

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Where:

The Flamingo Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, NV

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What:

• 4 nights on The Strip.
• 100's of teams from the U.S. and Canada
• 12 guaranteed games
• $50,000 Grand Prize

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Prizes: $50,000 Grand Prize

Additional Payouts for a total prize pool of at least $65,000

Scientific process of making beer

A great look inside what goes on at a brewery, especially a smaller one. Only the largest of beer makers, (Coors, Samuel Adams etc..) malt their own Barley, most have it done for them. Really cool "How beer is made video" that really looks at the science of brewing.

Who says you can't make Art from beer?

A couple of drinks later and look at this little creation they came up with!! Who says you can't drink some good brew and be creative at the same time. I would consider this a great social event with a splash of creativity and lots of beer.

What Influences a Drink Order

What influences a drink order?

Cosmopolitans, a type of martini, became popular in the 1990s, due to the incredible popularity of the HBO series, Sex and the City. Women from all over America were enthralled with the exciting, fast paced, sexy lives of

every woman, author, Carrie Bradshaw; WASP Charlotte York; successful lawyer, Miranda Hobbes; and enticing owner of a public relations firm, Samantha Jones. The show focussed on the quartets amazing lives. Their never mundane days and their wild nights packed with club openings and dinner at the restaurant of the month.

While middle American soccer moms may have felt whisked away every Sunday night, they were definitely not living the sexy urban lifestyle portrayed by these fabulous career gals. New Manolo Blahniks and the "it" bag may have been out of reach for most viewers, though a twelve dollar cocktail was most likely in the budget. Hence, the wild popularity of this pretty, pink, sweet, vodka based martini called, the Cosmopolitan.

Cosmopolitan - 1 1/2 oz vodka - 1 oz cranberry juice - 1/4 oz Cointreau - splash of fresh lime juice Garnish: Lime wedge Mix all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a lime

The Cosmopolitan is a fruity beverage made even more feminine by the pink hue. The ingredients are vodka, cranberry juice, Cointreau, and lime juice. Variations include triple sec in exchange for Cointreau and increasing the amount of lime juice from a splash to a quarter ounce. A lime wedge is generally placed on the rim as a garnish.

"Cosmopolitan".web. 02/15/2011

"The Perfect Cosmopolitan". web. 02/15/2011

Four Loco

Four Loco Ban and the Questions it Raises

Will Four Loco be banned in Pennsylvania?

Pennsylvania, as well as other states, are researching banning Four Loco.

Four Loco is already illegal in several states including Oregon and New York, where it was banned in November 2010.

Utah never never allowed the sale of this college student favorite.

The health of those who partake in this drink is the reason for the bans. The FDA commented

that Four Loco and other alcoholic energy drinks are "public health concern".

Should states restrict the sales of a beverage that combines two legal components: energy

drink and alcohol? Four Loco's increasing difficulty to find in addition to it's "bad-boy" image

increases this adults' only beverage's appeal. Is the government cementing Four Loco's

location at the top of the "hot list" by declaring it illegal, therefore pushing more college

students to search

for a way to indulge in this canned liquid?

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Loco for Loko: Controversial Drink "Unsafe" According to FDA. Tur, Katy. 17.Nov. 2010. , 15. Feb. 2011

"Four Energy Drink" . Feb. 2011, 15. Feb. 2011

MADD - Mothers Against Drunk Driving

This organization has been around since 1980.  Within our blog we talked a lot about what alcohol is, how is it produced, and what types of advertising in available. However we haven’t touch upon the resources that are available to campaign against drunk driving.  MADD has grown into one of the nation’s most widely respected non-profit organizations, with experts available to media for questions about Drunk Driving, Underage Drinking and Victim Services 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

By phone:  1-800-GET-MADD
By Internet: http://www.madd.org/drunk-driving/

SOME ALARMING STATISTICS

Ø  This year, 10,839 people will die in drunk-driving crashes - one every 50 minutes.

Ø  High school students who use alcohol or other substances are five times more likely to drop out of school or believe good grades are not important.

Ø  An average drunk driver has driven drunk 87 times before first arrest.

Ø  One in three people will be involved in an alcohol-related crash in their lifetime.

Ø  One in three 8th graders drinks alcohol.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration are involved in campaigns designed to deter “drunk driving”.  The most recent one is Kiss Me, I’m Sober for the upcoming St. Patrick's day.

To see more information on this campaign visit this site.

http://www.stopimpaireddriving.org/planners/StPatricks2011/index.cfm

Beer in Space ?

With the announcement that Boeing plans to take tourists into space in five years, it was really only a matter of time before somebody started thinking about refreshments. Because where would space tourism be without space beer? Luckily, Astronauts4Hire, a non-profit space research corporation, has the situation in hand. They are about to test an Australian beer that's brewed and bottled especially for consumption in microgravity.

One of the problems experienced by astronauts is numbing of the taste buds, causing even the finest Earth beer to taste bland. Astronauts have been known to douse their food in hot sauce when on missions to make it tastier. According to Ben Corbin, PR director for Astronauts4Hire, this particular brew is a stout with all the naturally darker chocolaty flavors amplified for the astronauts’ less-than-refined palates.

The carbonation in beer also poses a problem for drinkers in space. Bubbles that normally rise up and escape from a beverage on Earth simply stagnate in microgravity. Without the buoyancy force that Earth’s gravity provides, carbon dioxide stays in the liquid and prevents astronauts from burping. To combat this, the carbonation of this beer will be lower than most. Since this is a stout, though, which naturally has less carbonation than lighter beers, not too much has to be sacrificed.

Testing for the space beer will begin this November 2010 in the simulated weightless environment on board Zero Gravity Corporation’s Boeing airplane.  Specially designed packaging will prevent it from spraying all over the place and ruining space station equipment, but at present Corbin says he is "not at liberty to talk about" that.

"Sending Beer Into Space Original images by epicbeer and nashpreds99 on Flickr"