Busch Entertainment Corp., which has offered free samples of its products at SeaWorld and Busch Gardens for years, will end the tradition this winter.
The hospitality houses will close for renovations in late January and will reopen with “cafe-style menu[s]” later this winter sans sample. It’s a sad day for, well, everyone.
The company didn’t provide an [...]

Over the weekend, two kids from Long Island walked away as winners of the World Series of Beer Pong IV. Ron Hamilton and Michael Popielarski defeated roughly 400 hundred other teams to take home the $50,000 prize.
Hamilton prepared in style, drinking a bottle of Jack Daniels before beginning. “The key today was me getting real [...]

We all have favorite bars with distinctive features. The long, marble counter top. The shipping decor on the walls. The friendly drunk on the corner stool.
With DRAFT’s new “The Where Are You Drinking?” game, your unending knowledge of bars worldwide can win you a prize. Simply go here and guess the bar we’re featuring based [...]

It’s New Year’s Eve, which means only one thing: Time to run to the liquor store and buy the biggest, cheapest box of champagne you can and celebrate like mad with your friends.
Sounds like any other year, except given the dire economic situation facing the world, it’s even more necessary this year. According to the [...]

The geniuses behind Legends Of Beer put together an excellent list of 15 fictitious beers you’ll never drink because, you know, they don’t exist. Highlights include Duff Beer (The Simpsons), Panther Pilsner Beer (The Three Stooges), and Butterbeer (Harry Potter).
We promise you’ll learn fascinating facts about your favorite fictional brews. For example, did you know [...]

If you happen to be near Indiana, you should head to Scotty’s Brewhouse (winners of DRAFTMag.com’s impromptu “Most Annoying Web Site” award. Stop yelling at us, announcer guy.) All five locations will open at 11 a.m. for a full day of college football, beer, wings, and dill chips. Sounds just about right after a night [...]

For the third(!) time this year, a tractor-trailer truck carrying Coors Light flipped over, spilling the beer and forcing the temporary closure of an I-70 on-ramp.
The best part?
“Several kegs of beer rolled down onto adjacent Youngfield Street, said Lisa Stigall, spokeswoman for the Wheat Ridge Police Department.
‘There are a lot of cans of beer, since [...]

Pretend for a second that you live in St. Louis and recently got laid off. What would you do in the middle of the day? Why, how about going to a bar, especially if it helped you get a new gig?
Steven Fitzpatrick Smith (a perfect name for a pub owner, no?), proprietor of Royale, is [...]

We wrote our senior thesis about rap, which we thought was pretty cool, but Monique Haakensen — a pathology and laboratory medicine PhD candidate at University of Saskatchewann — topped us by studying beer. Specifically, the 26-year-old devoted countless hours to examining the science of spoiled beer and “has helped discover three new methods of [...]

Is there any gig better than being Prince of England? Honestly, as far as we can tell, it’s a whole lot of goofing around, traveling the world, and learning proper etiquette. Prince Harry illustrates this theory perfectly.
Just days before he stops drinking for a year to join the British helicopter corps, the third-in-line to the [...]