Some holidays you spend with family, while others are just an excuse to get off work. But one of the best kind of holidays is Ethnic Drinking Holidays. People like an excuse to drink, and with America’s diverse population, we can celebrate our diversity while getting sloshed. (Mostly the latter.) Of all the ethnically-themed excuses …
Every year, my friends and I go to the Oktoberfest in Addison, Texas. Addison is a suburb north of Dallas that contains a gazillion bars and restaurants. The Addison Oktoberfest is big, taking up almost 9 acres and attracting almost 70,000 people each year. Even though it’s just a few miles away from Dallas, we …
Beer drinking sure has changed since I was a kid. No, I didn’t drink beer back then (though I did drink coffee). But beer marketing is very pervasive, and even at a young age, I paid close attention to what the grown ups drank. They drank mostly pilsners, cheap, industrial brews that were very unlike …
Like most college students, I spent a lot of time at the bar. There were a bunch of bars all along Grand River Avenue, some better than others. There were frat bars and douchy bars and dance clubs, but my favorite was a pub called the Peanut Barrel. I liked the Peanut Barrel for several …
Back when I was freshman at Michigan State University, the Princeton Review ranked my school as the number three party school in the country. It was all the talk around campus, as people debated the dubious distinction. I thought it was unfair, since most of the other highly-ranked party schools weren’t known for the academics. …
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