Drink For A Cure – [March 13th] Help Raise Money For Cancer By Going To The Bar

Pilar Maldonado, a bartender at the Canal Bar (270 3rd Ave, Brooklyn) is holding a night of fun and games to raise money for the National Lung Cancer Partnership and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.  The event is Saturday, March 13th, costs $25 and has an open bar from 8pm – 11pm on select well and [...]

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, Send a JibJab eCard

St. Patrick’s day is March 17th. What will you be doing to celebrate? Have you made any plans yet? If your heading out to a local bar, which one are you thinking of going to? Whatever you decide, have a great time. I will no doubt be causing trouble in several bars [...]

Dine In Brooklyn for only $25 March 15th – 25th

175 of Brooklyn’s best restaurants will be participating in this years Dine In Brooklyn event.  With 3 course lunch’s served for only $20.10 and 3 course dinners for only $25 this is your chance to try a few new restaurants in or around your neighborhood.  The price does not include tax, tip or tipple, which [...]

[New Bar] Lowlands bar to open up in Gowanus, Brooklyn

Yet another beer notch on the growing Gowanus belt.  I just passed by the old Karate dojo on 3rd Ave and 14th Street in Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood when I saw a break in the window coverings, the new bar is coming along very nicely.  New owners are hoping that the bar will be open by mid April [...]

Celebrate St. David’s Day At Longbow Pub & Pantry (Bay Ridge, Brooklyn)

If you are Welsh and you are reading this on March 1st, then you would also know that today is St. David’s Day, the Patron Saint of Wales.  It was decided about 1421 years ago that people would celebrate ‘Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant’ (translated means Saintly Dude from the welsh valleys) on March 1st every year [...]

Move over Sam Adams ‘Utopias’. Hello Brew Dog’s ‘Sink The Bismarck’

The worlds strongest beer is no longer Samuel Adams Utopias.  The 25.6% ABV beer made by one of Americas’s most well known brewery companies just lost it’s American crown to a couple of 20 something year olds from the U.K. (Fraserburgh, Scotland to be more precise)
James Watt and Martin Dickie started brewing their beer in April [...]

Beer Pancakes Just In Time For Fat Tuesday

If you are reading this post on Tuesday, February 16th 2010 from somewhere in the U.S. then “Happy Fat Tuesday”. If you are from the U.K. then “Happy Pancake Day” or Shrove Tuesday as it is also known.  ”Happy Fastnacht Day” to all you German’s out there, “Happy Malasada” if you are Hawaiian, “Happy [...]

The Black Horse Pub – Park Slope, Brooklyn

Salooned.com highly recommends this bar.  The Black Horse Pub brings just enough of the Brit cool into Brooklyn to make this bar work.  One of the first things you notice is the large open front windows opening up onto 5th avenue and 16th street, there isn’t too many bars in Park Slope that encourage a [...]

Beer Is Good For Your Bones

I knew it!  And to celebrate, let’s toast a beer to beer.  According to researchers from the Department of Food Science & Technology at the University of California, have found beer is a rich source of silicon and may help prevent osteoporosis, as dietary silicon is a key ingredient for increasing bone mineral density.
These were [...]

USA vs Canada – Colbert Launches ‘Don’t Be An Icehole’ Campaign

If you haven’t heard already, Stephen Colbert is starting the ‘Don’t Be An Icehole’ campaign against the Canadians, which in turn, has promoted Canadian based R&B Brewery Co to do something about it.
It all started because supposedly, the Canadians aren’t offering the Americans enough access to the Olympic rink to practice. Even after Colbert [...]