by DJ Spiess | Dec 5, 2009 | Pub tales
When you hear about prohibition (in the USA during 1920-1933 alcohol was illegal) , people tend to glamorize how the sneaky partiers were always one step ahead of Johnny Law. You hear about the glamorous secret parties, the underground tunnels between establishments,...
by DJ Spiess | Jul 22, 2009 | Pub tales
Here’s a beer nut you might not expect. A badger, the animal, in Germany got drunk on over-ripe cherries and passed out in the road. A motorist called the police to report a dead badger in the road. When the police arrived, they found the badger was not dead...
by DJ Spiess | Dec 2, 2008 | Pub tales
When a group of moms and daughters went out for a “girl’s night out”, the moms were refused entrance. The Leeds Courtyard Bar told the moms their daughters could come in, but any moms over 35 years old had to make other plans for the evening, even the MILFs. The...
by DJ Spiess | Nov 10, 2008 | Pub tales
I try to stamp out every beer myth I come across, so when Virgil G. another beer blogger pointed out I may be perpetuating a beer myth in my Thanksgiving, Pilgrims, and Beer Myths article I was surprised (and somewhat embarrassed). It would be pretty bad if I wrote...
by DJ Spiess | Apr 28, 2008 | Pub tales
A story in Reuters ran last week about Mike Hammond who was looking for a drinking buddy for his 88-year-old father Jack. The duties included taking his father out for a pint once a day. The best part about the job was that it paid. Imagine that, a job which pays...
by DJ Spiess | Dec 15, 2007 | Pub tales
Christmas came early for many drinkers in Walusubi trading centre in Mukono, Uganda. A truck carrying 800 crates of Eagle Lager overturned while trying to avoid a collision with a bus. Ensuring that the beer would not go to waste, many looters rapidly descended on...
