Every two years we whitness the biggest and most watched event in history… The Olympics!  With all this great competition, comes great celebration. Especially for the winners these great sports. To honor all of these great olympic athletes and their victories, we are going to showcase photos here of olympic athletes drinking, partying and living it up after winning or losing in the olympics. Regaurdless the outcome, medal or not, they all deserve to part and have some drinks. Cheers to all you olympic athletes who can relax and enjoy some beers after these great games. If you have any photos of Olympic athletes drunk or partying, let us know so we can put them up on our “OLYMPIC CELEBRATION PHOTO WALL”

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2010 Olympics, Vancouver, Canada

2010 Olympics, Vancouver, Canada

2010 Olympics, Vanvouver, Canada

2010 Olympics, Vancouver, Canada

2010 Olympics, Vancouver, Canada

2010 Olympics, Cancouver, Canada

Alright, we got to hand it to these Ladies, they know how to celebrate!  Right there on the ice, after wining the gold medal for all to see!

After wining the Gold Medal, the Canadian women’s hockey team celebrated right there on the ice, no more than a half and hour later with Canadian beers, Canadian champagne, and cigars for all to watch and see.  This is probably the best celebration that we have ever seen at the Olympics, and who thought it would have come from the Canadians!?  I got to hand it to them though, these women look like they know how to have a good time!

From hosted.ap.org:

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The women of the Canadian hockey team politely accepted their gold medals and waved to an adoring crowd. And then the real celebration began.

More than half an hour after they beat the United States 2-0 on Thursday, the players came back from the locker room and staged a party on ice – swigging from bottles of champagne, guzzling beer and smoking cigars.

In a sport that Canada invented, there was never an option besides gold, and with it finally in hand, the home team let loose.

Meghan Agosta and Marie-Philip Poulin posed wearing goofy grins. Rebecca Johnston actually tried to drive the ice-resurfacing machine. Haley Irwin poured champagne into the mouth of Tessa Bonhomme, gold medals swinging from both their necks.

The celebration raised eyebrows at the IOC, which said it would look into the matter. Informed of the antics by The Associated Press, Gilbert Felli, the IOC’s executive director of the Olympic Games, said it was “not what we want to see.”

“I don’t think it’s a good promotion of sport values,” he said. “If they celebrate in the changing room, that’s one thing, but not in public. We will investigate what happened.”

Poulin, who scored both goals, doesn’t turn 19 – legal drinking age in British Columbia – until next month. The drinking age in Alberta, where the Canadian team trains, is 18. Photos showed Poulin on the ice with a beer in her hand.

“We understand that they were asked to go back onto the playing field after the stadium had emptied to take a photo,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams said. “We understand that some people may have felt that their behavior was over-exuberant.”

Steve Keough, a spokesman for the Canadian Olympic Committee, said the COC had not provided the alcohol nor initiated the party.

“In terms of the actual celebration, it’s not exactly something uncommon in Canada,” he said.

While the committee does not condone irresponsibility, Keough said, “I think Canadians understand it’s quite an emotional moment for our team. It was not our intention to go against any IOC protocols.”

Not even uncommon at these Olympics. After Jon Montgomery won a gold medal for Canada in skeleton, he walked through the streets of Whistler guzzling from a pitcher of beer that he gripped with two hands.

American Scotty Lago, who won a bronze in halfpipe, voluntarily left the games after a photo surfaced of a woman kneeling below his waist to kiss the medal.

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Here are a few beers that are guaranteed to get you drunk! These beers are strong and most of the are very hoppy tasting, so if you can get past that, or if you enjoy that type of beer, then you will enjoy these. And the good news is that it will only take a couple of bottles and you will be trashed!  These beers range in the alcohol content, but all are above 15%. That is strong when you take into consideration that a typical beer that you might be drinking ranges from an average of 4-6% in alcohol content.

From FoxNews.com:

Most beers consumed in the U.S. hover between four and 10 percent alcohol by volume (ABV). These are the brews downed by the round or six pack at happy hours and tailgate parties across the country every day. But there is a select and rarefied list of beers that break such shackles of conformity and aim their potency high into territory normally reserved for whiskey, vodka and rum, raising the question: at 80 proof, is it really beer anymore? And furthermore, is anyone capable of caring once they’ve drunk a bottle?

Part of a recent explosion of extreme beers, high-gravity brews are suds of a different sort. The name comes from the liquid’s density in comparison to water – the higher the gravity, the more alcohol that can form. And because they range anywhere from approximately 14 percent to 40 percent ABV, there is a huge range of flavors and textures in this category. Many are syrupy, with huge amounts of nutty and toasty malt stemming from the quantities of that dried extract necessary to kick the alcohol content into the “dear God I can’t feel my hands” range. The high proof ratings tend to make them ‘hotter’ than typical beers, exchanging refreshing and crisp for unique flavors that put each of them in a category of its own.

But there is one unifying factor – every single one of them packs a punch that’s a heck of a lot harder than Bud can deliver. Here are a few to keep an eye out for, you may want to duck:

Dogfish Head Brewery Olde School:
A barley wine style ale, which has only a mild hops bitterness with fruit dominating the flavors, this 15 percent ABV ale is an excellent introduction to the breed. A pale glowing orange in color, it’s rich and heavy with just a touch of bitterness and huge berry flavors. So much so that it’s better drank from a snifter than a bottle. It’s the root beer of beers, with sugar and fruits wafting out of the glass, and a strange medicinal aftertaste that makes it an acquired taste for many.

Avery Mephistopheles Stout:
As black-hearted as its namesake, this 15.1 percent ABV stout pours a deep coal-black and offers a creamy mocha head which disappears quickly due to weak carbonation. The tastiest beer in this lineup, a chewy mouthful reeks of toffee, molasses, and a tinge of vanilla ringed with burnt coffee and the sweet heat of the alcohol. Like most stouts, it’s a meal in a glass.

Mikkeler Black:
The brewery recommends aging this huge stout for a few years to take the edge off, and it’s not a bad idea. Weighing in at 17.5 percent ABV, there’s virtually no carbonation to lighten the creamy texture brought on by the champagne yeast used in the brewing process. Charred malt, chocolate and coffee dominate every sip, but there’s nuance here too – the toffee and cherry flavors surprisingly not burned away by the high alcohol content. It’s perfect for sipping a pint slowly over the course of a very long night, but don’t blame anyone but yourself for what gets posted on Facebook if any more than that is consumed.
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BrewDog Tactical Nuclear Penguin:
Bizarrely named, this Imperial Stout from Scotland was, for a short time in 2009, the strongest beer ever brewed, and was only recently dethroned by Schorschbrau, a German brewery that has unleashed a 40 percent ABV beer on the world. But at 32 percent ABV, Tactical Nuclear Penguin is one heck of an accomplishment. The brewery claims it’s a beer for the dedicated, and they’re so very right. A deep chocolate brown in the whiskey tumbler that should be its home, the light carbonation doesn’t hide the smoke, tobacco, nutty malt and cola flavors that rule this beer. The heat of the alcohol masks a bit of toffee and chocolate as well. But make no mistake, the thick, almost viscous liquid is brutal in its approach. This nuke takes no prisoners and should be enjoyed sparingly. It’s still technically beer, but in the same way that Heidi Montag is still technically a human.

Its here again, another American National Drinking Day. February 18 is recognized by the American Food and Drink website as National Drink Wine Day!

So if you are not sure how to celebrate national drink wine day… maybe this ones not for you. Maybe just wait until tomorrow to celebrate the National Popcorn day.

For the rest of us, uncork your favorite bottle of wine and pour yourself a big glass and cheers to these great American National Holidays! When you find your glass empty, fill and repeat.

Enjoy and have a great National Drink Wine Day! Spread the news!

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Don’t Drink Up…. Brush Up!

Why we don’t have this around anymore… I don’t know. All these toothpaste companies today have gotten way off track!! What could be better than Whiskey or Bourbon Flavored Toothpaste!?

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Valentine’s day is a great day to have a few cocktails. This year show that special some how much you love them by making them a few of these sexy Valentine’s Day Cocktails. Or if you are like most people who hate Valentine’s Day, just slam a few of these down and toast to your loneliness!  Either way, these drinks are pretty damn good, so drink up… and stop bitching about how you hate Valentine’s day, and enjoy another reason to have a great cocktail!!

Valentine’s Champagne Cocktail #1
Champagne
.5 ounce Framboise, or Black Berry Brandi, or Creme De Cassis
Fresh Raspberries, or Black Berries

Fill a Champagne Flute with Champagne, pour in a little Framboise, or Creme de cassis, and put a couple raspberries or black berries in the flute.

Valentine’s Champagne Cocktail #2
1 sugar cube
2-3 dashes Angostura bitters
Champagne
1 oz brandy
orange slice for garnish
maraschino cherry for garnish

Pour champagne into a champagne flute, then add other ingredients, and garnish with a orange slice and or cherry.

Chocolate Martini Drink Recipe
2 oz vodka
1 .5 oz creme de cacao, white
Hershey Hug or Kiss for garnish
powdered cocoa for rim if glass

Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake it up. Strain into a martini glass rimmed with powdered cocoa. This is a great drink for after dinner to enjoy for or with desert.

Love Potion Drink Recipe
1 oz strawberry, vanilla or clear vodka
.5 oz white crème de cacao
.5 cup fresh or frozen strawberries
Scoop of vanilla ice cream
.5 cup ice
Strawberry for garnish

Put all ingredients into a blender, and blend. Add more ice if consistency needs to be a little thicker. Serve into a chilled martini glass.

Rosy Rum Red Cosmos
1.5 oz Bacardi Limon
.5 oz triple sec
1 Tbsp lime juice
.5 Tbsp cranberry juice
fresh mint leaves for garnish

Pour all ingredients into shaker with ice. Strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with mint.

Strawberry Kiss Drink Recipe
.25 oz Brandy
.5 oz Cranberry juice
2 oz Orange juice
.75 oz Light Rum
.75 oz Strawberry schnapps

Mix all ingredients into a glass with crushed ice and garnish with mint leaves and a strawberry. Or blend with ice and pour into a chilled martini glass and garnish with a strawberry.

French Kiss
.75 oz Chambord
.75 oz peach schnapps
.75 oz vodka
splash orange juice
splash pineapple juice
splash cranberry juice

Mix all ingrediants together gently and Serve in a chilled martini glass.

Valentini – Martini Drink Recipe
Currant-flavored vodka ( any of these – Absolut Kurant Vodka, Kremly Black Currant, Cristall Black Currant, Georgieskaya Black Currant Vodka, Danzka Currant Vodka)
Champagne
Raspberry schnapps
Lime juice.

Pour all ingredients into a shaker filled with chipped ice, combine 2.25 cups of currant-flavored vodka, and add 1.25 cups of champagne. Makes 12 servings

Broken Heart Drink Recipe
1 splash of Grenadine
2 oz. Orange juice
1 oz. Vodka
1 oz. Chambord

Pour ingredients over ice, shake in a shaker and strain into a champagne flute and serve.

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Alright, we have caught a few of the new episodes of American Idol this season, and I got to say all the judges, except for the guest judges seem to show up each day to the auditions looking completely hung over! I know these guys go out and party at all the different cities they are at, but by the looks of them each morning, they look like they were out drinking all night without any sleep. Simon usually seems to be the worst though. He just looks completely groggy in the morning, red faced from too much booze the night before, drinking a bottle of water trying to rehydrate, and wearing his sunglasses to help block the light for that hang over headache he is trying to take care of!

We miss seeing Paula on there, at least she would be drunk on the show and give us something entertaining to watch. Now all we get is hung over, moody-ass Simon, and all he wants is another cocktail and a nap. Don’t get me wrong, its great listening to his mean comments to some of the contestants due to his nasty hang over mood, but I still think Paula was much more entertaining, slurring words, and laughing uncontrollably up there.

Simon’s new show starting on Fox next year called The X-Factor shows promising signs of drunk celebrities to come! Paula and Simon are to be reunited as judges on The X-Factor! Until then, I guess we are just going to have to be content with watching hung over, grumpy Simon and the other judges.

And if any of you see any of these judges out partying in your city, please post a comment below. We would love to hear what they are doing the night before the auditions! And even better, if you have any good pictures that you snapped of them while you were out upload those to our Drunk Pictures Section!

With the new El Nino here pouring down on us, we are pretty much stuck inside for a while. What better way to spend your time, than hangin’ out indoors with some friends playin’ some drinking games with some of these great rainy day cocktails!

So we have compiled a list of great drink recipes that are great for all those rainy and cold days ahead. Enjoy and please feel free to post a comment if you have some other rainy or cold day drink recipes that you enjoys on these days!

Rainy Day Marley Drink Recipe
1.5 oz. Vodka
1.5 oz. Triple Sec
1.5 oz. Malibu Coconut Rum
Orange Juice

Mix all ingredients into a highball glass. Make Orange Juice is Cold before making. You can serve on ice, or without.

Purple Rain Drink Recipe
1.5 oz Gin
Cranberry juice
Splash of Blue Curacao liqueur
Splash of sweet and sour mix
Splash of soda water

Fill a highball glass with ice and pour gin over it, then fill with cranberry juice. Add blue curacao, sour mix and soda. Stir gently, and add more curacao if needed until a deep purple color, and serve.

Flaming Rain Drink Recipe
1 Shot Bacardi 151
8 oz. Red Bull

Pour the Red Bull into a short wide glass. Light the top of the shot of 151 and drop into the glass of Red Bull and Chug! This is sure to warm you up on a rainy day!

Steaming Bull
2 oz. Tequila
2 oz. Beef bouillon
4 oz. Tomato juice
splash lime juice
Dash of Worcestershire sauce

Heat ingredients except tequila in a saucepan. Do not boil. Pour into mug and add tequila.

Hot Sultry Zoe
1 oz. Tequila
1/2 oz. Galliano
5 oz. Hot chocolate
2 oz. Cream

Pour tequila, Galliano, and hot chocolate into an Irish Coffee glass or mug. Stir gently. Add cream by pouring it over the back of a spoon so that it floats on top.

Hot Wine Lemonade
1 1/2 oz. Red wine
1 oz. Lemon juice
1 tbs. Fine sugar
4 oz. Boiling water

In an Irish Coffee glass or mug, dissolve sugar in a splash of water. Add the wine and lemon juice. Stir. Fill with water. Stir well. Garnish with a lemon twist.

Hot Toddy
2 oz. Bourbon
4 oz. Boiling water
1 tbs. Fine sugar
splash lemon juice
dash ground cloves
dash cinnamon

In a coffee mug, dissolve the sugar and spices in 1 oz. of the boiling water. Stir. Add the lemon juice, bourbon, and the rest of the water. Stir well.

Chimney Fire
1 1/2 oz. Amaretto
4 oz. hot cider
Cinnamon

Pour ingredients into an Irish Coffee glass or mug. Stir. Sprinkle with cinnamon.

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To say that I’m an avid reader would be a gross overstatement. However, when I find a book that I like, I’ll read it cover to cover as quickly as I can. Colin Lark’s What the F@ck Happened Last Night was unfortunately not one of those books. As excited as I was to read this book, I had a hard time motivating myself to start the next “story” after finishing the previous. I’m not at all saying that the stories were bad or not funny, I’m sure they were all great, if you were there in person and shitfaced. But I wasn’t there in person, and I wasn’t shitfaced when reading the book… when I tried drinking and reading the book, I quickly lost focus and found myself reading a SkyMall Magazine.

I will admit that there were a couple times that I found myself chuckling at antics that were being described in the book, specifically the Shit Grenade story. I think I found this story funny because I could relate to it… I went to a college that was on the beach so I was able to put myself into the story and that made the story so much better. If all of the stories where written a bit differently to give the reader a better sense of the scene, and make the reader feel like they where actually there, I think the book would be a much easier read, and probably a lot funnier too. That was the beauty of I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell by Tucker Max. He did a great job with all the little details and the stories made you feel like you were there with him.

All in all, the book was okay. I’d give it 2.5 out of 5 on our beer bottle rating system. Maybe even bump it up to 3 out of 5 since I got a free copy. Despite the low rating, I think the book actually has A LOT of potential if rewritten with more detail. I’m curious to hear what other readers think. If you haven’t read the book, or bought the book yet, Colin was nice enough to share a few of the stories on his website, you can read them here. If you’re a current college student, I’d say, go ahead and pick up a copy of What the Fuck Happened Last Night.

You have got to be out of your mind to show up to your job drunk. Unless your name is Zane Lamprey and you get paid to travel the world and drink. But if you are a bus driver for children, and your job is to get them too and from school safely, you should probably wait til after you drop them all off for the day until you start hitting the bottle.

From wcbstv.com:

ALMOND, N.Y. (CBS) ― It was a school bus trip nightmare for students in upstate New York.

A driver is heading to jail after she was drunk behind the wheel with more than three dozen kids aboard.

And as a surveillance video shows, the children were screaming for her to stop.

The video shows the dangerous school bus ride last May in the Alfred-Almond school district in Allegany County. Martha Thompson, 55, had a blood alcohol content of .15. At the time, she thought the children were over-reacting.

Students can be heard screaming, “Put on the brake!”

Driver: “Will you guys stop?”

Student: “Well you’re not okay, and I know it.”

The bus hit high speeds, ran over a mailbox and started rolling backwards downhill.

Student: “Turn the bus off!”

Driver: “No.”

Student: “You’re backing into the freaking ditch; you’re making the little kids cry. Stop!”

Finally, the children opened the emergency door in the back of the bus to get out, despite Thompson pleading against it.

Driver: “You can’t get off the bus!”

Now, Thompson will spend the next 12 weekends in jail on her guilty plea to 37 counts of child endangerment and driving while intoxicated.

“I think this was a just and appropriate outcome in this case,” Allegany County Assistant District Attorney Michael Finn said. “A potential tragedy was averted by the grace of God, and thankfully none of the passengers, nor Mrs. Thompson, was injured as a result of this sequence of events.”

Thompson’s attorney blamed her behavior on a little alcohol having a bad reaction with Thompson’s medication.

“She made a very bad judgment,” Thomas Trbovich said. “She’s embarrassed. She’s very sorry to the children. She never, ever would intentionally put any of those children, especially her own, in any type of risk.

“And now she’s getting the help that she needs.”

In addition to 12 weekends in jail, Thompson will be on six months of home electronic monitoring, five years probation and mandatory alcohol counseling.