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Duff McKagan: On Drinking

A guide to a sober life in bars.

How to Drink When You Don't Drink

Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. His memoir, It's So Easy (Simon & Schuster) is out now.​I used to be the guy who was constantly trying to find the best place in town to drink the cocktail. Yeah, I was the guy barkeeps loved at first, but always ended up trying to find a wa ... More >>

Spody Recipe Wins VIP Tickets to Reverb Music Festival

This post was actually written by Voracious contributor Sonja Groset. But due to technical issues (read: Sonja can't operate a computer), it had to be posted by someone else. There are certain benefits to getting older: You can have cereal for dinner, cookies for breakfast, and, and . . . that's ab ... More >>

Win Extra-Special Reverb Music Festival Passes by Creating a Cocktail Consisting of Rum, Irish Whiskey & Flavored Malt Liquor

Have you ever wanted to create an exhilirating fall beverage that includes orange-flavored Sparks Malt Liquor, Tullamore Dew whiskey and Sailor Jerry rum? Shit, who hasn't?! But I digress. Every year, Seattle Weekly sponsors a music festival in a dozen downtown Ballard venues featuring 70-some ban ... More >>

Monster Energy Drink Claims That Mice Can't Resist Its Delicious Blue Flavor

​The lawyers at Monster Energy Drink want everyone to know that there is no way the company accidentally put a mouse inside one of its cans of "Blue"-flavored brain swill. Obviously Vitaliy Sulzhik, the Federal Way man who found a mouse in his can, had simply let the refreshing beverage out of ... More >>

Vitaliy Sulzhik, Federal Way Man, Sues Monster Energy Drinks for Putting a Dead Mouse in His Can

​Looking at his photograph at right, you'd never guess that Vitaliy Sulzhik was a fan of Monster Energy Drinks. But it's true! At least, it used to be true. That was until the Federal Way bro claims he found a goddamn dead mouse in the bottom of his can. Now he's a fan of suing Monster Energy ... More >>

Jagerbombs Away at the Hard Rock Cafe

VRROOOOOOOOOM!​ This Week's Suspect: Last week's Legal Speedballs featured Irish Coffee, a caffienated alcoholic beverage that most anti-Four Loko crusaders seemed to all but completely forget the existence of. This week will feature a much more notorious, but still 100% legal combination of ... More >>

The Four Loko Chronicles: Now It's a "Public Health Concern," According to the FDA

Now you see it...​On Monday, the makers of Four Loko (Phusion Projects, LLC) announced that they would be removing the caffeine from their products sold in New York State, ahead of a ban set to go into effect in the coming weeks. Yesterday, the FDA announced that it would likely be handing dow ... More >>

The Four Loko Chronicles: Banned In (parts of) The U.S.A.

​And that's the ballgame, kids. Word has just come down (via the Daily Weekly and, well, pretty much everywhere else, too) that Four Loko, the alcoholic energy drink that recently made headlines by sending nine Central Washington University students to the hospital, is now officially banned i ... More >>

The Four Loko Chronicles: News From the Other Coast

​Hot on the heels of last week's banning of Four Loko (and all other alcoholic energy drinks) in the entire state of Michigan, New York state is now trying to get in on the action. This, from our sister paper, the Village Voice: "Apparently there is a cheap alcoholic energy drink called "Four ... More >>

If Garrett Olson Can Get Paid to Endorse a Sport Drink, Anyone Can

​Mariner reliever Garrett Olson is a handsome dude. That we'll grant him. But his career 6.20 earned run average--twice as bad as the game's elite hurlers--understandably got him branded by one overzealous journalist as "the worst pitcher in baseball history." With a track record like that, yo ... More >>

Energy Ham! (And a Few Other Things) Finally Made Possible By New Energy Drink Product

Energy shooters can be added to ANYTHING​In order of historical importance, here are the top five discoveries in the beverage world. 1) That a field full of barley can be made into beer, requiring only patience and some yeast. 2) That, after you've drunk all your barley, you can also turn a ... More >>

Monday Announcements: Free Fries, Energy Drink Nannying, Ragin' Amber

Free Fry! This Friday, November 20th, and every 3rd Friday of the month from now on, Pike Street Fish Fry (925 E. Pike St.) will give away boats of fries and offer $2 pints of New Belgium beer (the co-host of the event). Lest this make you think of those old 1950s pictures of people stuffed into a p ... More >>

The WSLCB Wants to Be Your Babysitter, Step One

Liquor Control Board Policy #09-2009 (here's a PDF of the policy) drops today. It bans the mention of energy drinks together with alcohol on all marketing and point-of-sale materials. This policy goes live October 28, barring any big backlash. Suppliers were notified yesterday and told they could co ... More >>

Don't Call It a Smoothie. Please don't. No.

"We don't call them smoothies," the young man behind the counter at Healeo informed me when I asked if I could see the smoothie menu. "We call them superfood drinks." He softened the correction with the smile of a Mormon missionary bequeathing his bus seat to an 80-year-old. Now, I have a soft spot ... More >>

Bumbershoot: Three-Sentence Review of Tapes 'N Tapes

"We don't call them smoothies," the young man behind the counter at Healeo informed me when I asked if I could see the smoothie menu. "We call them superfood drinks." He softened the correction with the smile of a Mormon missionary bequeathing his bus seat to an 80-year-old. Now, I have a soft spot ... More >>

Bumbershoot: Three Sentence Review of Man Man

"We don't call them smoothies," the young man behind the counter at Healeo informed me when I asked if I could see the smoothie menu. "We call them superfood drinks." He softened the correction with the smile of a Mormon missionary bequeathing his bus seat to an 80-year-old. Now, I have a soft spot ... More >>

It’s All Downhill From Here

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Boner Juice

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Cha Dao Tea

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Bud Extra, Sparks

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