FOOD BUZZ – A refillable jug for carrying fresh beer home from the local brewery is a way to buy cheap beer without the wasteful packaging.There’s something so old-fashioned and quaint about the idea of carrying home some artisanal beer in a big jug. It’s like something Hansel and Gretel would do if they were wastoids.

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The Best Links:

1. Drink Beer Cheaper With a Growler
2. Beer Growlers 101
3. The Craft Beer Lifestyle
4. Get Our New Growler Kit

CELEBRITY BUZZ – Jessica Simpson is now spokesperson and investor in Stampede Light Plus, a new Texas beer.Wearing a cowgirl hat, an unbuttoned shirt, and sitting on piles of hay, Jessica proclaims she likes “a cold beer once in a while” in her new ad. Just like I drink “once or twice a week”…right, Jess?

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The Best Links:

1. Beer Whore
2. Jessica Simpson Wants You To Drink
3. Hot or Not
4. Spokesperson AND Investor
5. Once In A While, My Ass!
6. Out To Prove She’s A Country Girl

CULTURE BUZZ – A group of 100 college presidents have banded together in an effort to lower the drinking age.The movement, called the Amethyst Initiative, began over a year ago in hopes of starting debate over the old highway funding laws which bumped it from 18 to 21 in the first place. Naturally, MADD isn’t happy. In fact, they’re quite mad.

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The Best Links:

1. College Chiefs Urge New Debate On Drinking Age
2. MADD’s Urgent Response
3. The Amethyst Initiative
4. It’s Not Working
5. Legal Drinking Age on Wikipedia
6. High School Teacher Viewpoint
7. Turning 21 In Three Months
8. 30 Reasons Girls Should Call It A Night

FOOD BUZZ – The most delicious and amazing thing ever made.Take an milkshake. Add beer. Enter heaven. They serve these at a burger place near my apartment, and now I’ve developed a problem.

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1. Klondike Beer Shake Recipe
2. Mint Chocolate Chip Beer Shake Recipe
3. Beershake With Guiness AND Espresso
4. Beer Shake Combo: McEwan’s Scotch Ale and Vanilla
5. Yummy Lookin’!

FOOD BUZZ – Cheap beers throughout the U.S.With the InBev purchase of Anheuser-Busch, Pabst, maker of hipster-fave PBR, is now the biggest U.S. brewer. They own a whole slew of cheap brews — do you know your Keystone from your Busch?

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1. The United States of Cheap Beer
2. Hunting For Cheap Beer In NYC
3. Cheap Beer Faceoff
4. Cheap Collee Students Prefer Busch?
5. Busch Also Wins This Ancient Comparison

FOOD BUZZ – Japanese beermaker, Sapporo will be marketing their first “space beer” in November using barley from the International Space Station.They’re only making 100 bottles, which means all of us regular people unwilling to shell out more than $3 for a beer will have to stick to astronaut ice cream to get a taste of space.

The Best Links:

1. Japan’s Sapporo to Brew Beer from Space Station Barley
2. Sapporo Wants to Take Advantage of the Knowledge Gained through the Process
3. Researchers Foray into Agriculture in Space
4. It’s Basically a Gimmick to Sell a Bottle of Beer for an Exorbitant Amount
5. But How Will the Yeast Behave in Zero Gravity?
6. AFP: Japan plans to brew ‘space beer’

FOOD BUZZ – A seller on Etsy has crafted vegan soaps made from Pabst and Guinness.This is probably the last thing you want to bathe yourself with the morning after a vomitous night of binge drinking. But for any of you who have ever looked at a keg and wished you were soaking in it, bathing with beer soap might be the next best thing.

The Best Links:

1. Buy the Beer Soap on Etsy
2. Beer Actually Has a Broad Range of Uses, Including Antibacterial Cleansing Properties
3. The Soap Is Vegan
4. Bathing with Beer without the Hangover
5. Experimentations in Soapmaking: Sierra Nevada vs Busch Lite vs Blue Moon
6. Guinness Soap on Etsy (Sold Out for Now)
7. An Alternative to Bathing in a Keg

FOOD BUZZ – Pre-mixed Budweiser and Clamato cocktails are now available in stores nationwide.It’s kind of like carbonated tomato soup, and sure to become a staple in any drunkorexic’s diet.

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1. RIYL Carbonated Tomato Soup
2. Sounds Gross, But Is Actually Quite Popular in Some Communities
3. Does This Come With a Barf Bag?
4. As a Craft Beer Connoisseur, I Find This Mixture to Sound Disgusting
5. Chelada Press Release
6. Reminds Me of College…When We Would Make Weird Beer Concoctions