Two steps forward, one step backward.

Drinking cause the gout! Next it’ll be the plague or scurvy. What is this, a Dickens novel? We pasteurize our beer these days you know..

Heavy Social Drinkers Show Brain Damage. (Hat tip SlantyG) Please note that it’s supposed to take 30 years of heavy social drinking for the effects to be noticeable. We think based on our memory performance these days, it may be closer to 2.

Health Tip: the Benefits of Beer. Thanks for the insight, why the hell didn’t you tell us a few weeks ago before the beer workers went on strike.

Man killed over beer. If the government doesn’t legislate those workers back, this is what we could be facing.

Here’s cheers to the Beer of the Year. An American beer chosen as the best beer in the world? We believe Oscar Wilde once said “I piss out stronger stuff than that. Or maybe that was us after a night hitting the Good Doctor up for free ‘advice.’

How to (Sniff) Be a Wine Snob. Our guess is that is doesn’t involved wine of the boxed variety, so chances are we’ll have to remain ‘Wine Heathens’. But that’s ok with us, everything tastes better when you’re in the gutter.

Alcohol prevention in a pill. No thanks, we’ll take our alcohol prevention in the form of chronic liver disease. We kid we kid, if you actually read the article you’ll see there’s scientists truly bending their great talents towards helping the liver abusers round the world, by creating a pill to reduce the long term effects of drinking. Now if only they’d knock off that cancer prevention research shit, and concentrate on this sort of ground breaking work, we could be drunk for the next 70 years.