It’s Cinco de Mayo! Starting with Cheap Trick and Surrender, Hornitos is making a annual event of mashing up famous rock groups with a mariachi band. This year, Twisted Sister jumped in. Dee and the Band created this new, one-of-a-kind version of their 1984 hit “We’re Not Gonna Take It”.  Look like last year’s video was taken off of YouTube?  Hornitos folks we want to see that!
Enjoy!

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What do you get when you combine the oldest, longest-operating, American winery founded by an Irishman and the newest Irish distillery? Concannon Irish Whiskey made in Ireland by acclaimed Cooley Distillery for Concannon Vineyard. …Read More

Today marks the 78th Anniversary of the implementation of the 21st Amendment, also known as Repeal Day (for repealing the disastrous 18th Amendment, which went into effect on January 17, 1920). Make sure you enjoy a tipple today to celebrate!

Prohibition was a dark period in America. It pitted recent immigrants against Americans who had been in the country for generations and rural areas against urban. Hypocritical politicians voted dry and drank very wet. I … Read more

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The Sipping Seder – A site of Passover Cocktails
Does the Perfect Bourbon Exist? – The Washington Post postulates
All 68 NCAA Tournament Teams Ranked by Their Best Drunk College Food – Endless Simmer
Fastest Bartender in the World – Zagat
For alcohol brands, social media a stiff cocktail – CNet
Six Pack Frame Cinch – The Awesomer
Columbia Koozie Hoodie – Uncrate
NY Times DIY Cooking Handbook. Sounds kinda like our new books DIY … Read more

This week’s boozy links:

Illinois Craft Brewers Fight To Protect Right To Distribute (HuffPo)
The Charlie Sheen (The Daily Meal)
Tippler’s Taxonomy: A Guide to Cocktail Categories (Serious Eats)
How to Make a Martini (Art of the Drink)
A Meat Cocktail with a Vegetarian Option (Alcademics)
Cupcake Flavored Vodka?
Join the Tea Party (TheSpir.it)
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It may be stormin’ outside, but this weeks links are little gems of sunshine.

The United States of Good Beer (Good)
America’s Drunkest Cities (Men’s Health)
Starbuck’s New Trenta holds a whole bottle of wine (Eater)
Tipping at the bar vs. tipping at the table (Chow)
Margarita Cupcakes with Tequila Shooter Toppers (The Awl)
The rise and fall of the British pub (The Telegraph)
Beer Cans, a History in Design (Gastronomista)
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This week’s links for the New Year!

2011 will see the debut of Ron de Jeremy. Yes, Ron Jeremy has his own rum. 
GigaOm reports that we’ll be able to pay our tabs by iPhone soon.
Create a lovely flower vase out your old cocktail shaker.
2010 in cocktails according to Serious Eats’ Paul Clarke.
Jeffrey Morgenthaler talks barrel-aged cocktails.
Learn how whiskeys are rated.
The worst drinking trends of 2010.
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This week’s roundup of libatious links:

He’Brew shows how to build a beer menorah.
UK storm strands 7 lucky people in a pub.
Nine vodkas for non-vodka lovers.
Mark Leno tries to bring some sense to the ABC.
Eight cocktails of Hanukkah.
Rachel Maddow talks garnish etiquette.
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Way back in 1933 the USA was gripped with an economic depression and to make matters worse, a prohibition on alcohol. The Eighteenth Amendment, “Prohibition,” set the act of getting a decent cocktail back years. Unless of course you were rich, then one could still get the good stuff (with a doctor’s note). The great bartenders all fled to Europe or Latin America as they were now outlaws at home. Drinkers were forced to go … Read more