The fast-changing and trendy business of beer in Australia has taken another evolutionary step, with some of the country’s biggest beer nerds now offering the acclaimed Cicerone training advantage. The crafted beer revolution has been shaking up the establishments in markets and venues around the world, some for considerably longer than the decade or so […]
As the transformation of Britain’s pub scene continues to see around 30 close each week, the boss of the biggest pub chain has suggested the drinking age should be lowered to 16 years. J D Wetherspoon operates nearly 1,000 pubs in the UK, with reputations as ‘budget boozers’ that turn over around £1.5billion a year
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A rebellious chemistry nerd is pioneering products to save the world from the effects of booze, with a pill to sober you up, and a synthetic alcohol with no ill-effects. David Nutt, from Imperial College London, is a neuropsychopharmacology professor fired from employment as a chemistry guru to the British Government in 2009 for saying
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Global drinks giant Diageo has launched a range of new-style premix drinks based on consumer insight around trends in drinking occasions. The new products were unveiled yesterday at the company’s Australian head office in McMahons Point. Managing director of Diageo Australia David Smith joined marketing director Adam Ballesty and head of innovation Drewe Letchford in
Consumer research has reached inside Australia’s legion of craft beer drinkers, with important results for licensees. The Sydney-based Beer Cartel is a distributor of over 1,100 craft beers from around the world, providing tasting rooms and beer clubs, and distribution of curated six and twelve-packs to budding connoisseurs. Surveying over 6,500 beer drinkers, the company
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A recent covert operation by a team from Deakin University succeeded in finding signs of intoxication by patrons that were drinking. The group conducted 828 “unique cross-sectional observations” at 62 bars, nightclubs and large pubs throughout five Australian cities. Its purpose was to “assess correlates of intoxication” in venues, meaning things related to intoxication –
A man who could not pay his bill at a Czech pub and left all his clothes as collateral as he went for money was stopped by local police, then allowed to complete his quest. On Monday (25 July) residents and CCTV of the town of Prerov in the Czech Republic were endowed with the
A study by La Trobe University has found the vast majority of alcohol is not consumed in licensed premises, and calls for measures beyond the blame and restrictions heaped on pubs and bars. Surveying more than 2,000 Australians, the University sought to learn where alcohol is consumed, and where ‘risky’ drinkers do their drinking. It
In Mother Russia, if someone pull wooden chair in fight, we respond by fetching chainsaw. A video has emerged of a brawl taking place outside a Russian pub demonstrating the Russian peoples’ stubborn pragmatism, particularly in the face of adversity. As two groups of men armed with assorted furniture face off outside the drinking establishment,
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Wild footage shows another night in an unnamed pub in Britain, with many of the patrons taking part in a routine post-footy brawl. While Manchester United has been named the first soccer team valued at over $1bn, a video tagged ‘Pub Brawl Manchester’ has revealed the type of rampant violence that all too often accompanies
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