Top Ten Reasons that Halloween is a Superior Alcoholiday:
10. Parties have a ready-made theme and everyone dresses up.
9.  This joke : What did the ghost say about his Halloween get-together?
Bring your own boooooooze.
8.  You toy with the idea of handing out pocket shots instead of candy.
7.  Ladies’ Halloween costumes.
6.  There’s a myriad of scary movie [...]

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Punches are best suited for Halloween parties, and this one is tailor-made for the occasion. It looks good and is affordable if you’re throwing a party on the cheap.
GREAT PUMPKIN PUNCH
1 pumpkin
1/2 gallon apple cider
3 liters of ginger ale
1 bottle of rum
Hollow out the pumpkin. It’s okay if you leave a few chunks floating around. [...]

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The following is an entirely fictional account of sharing a beer with an important public figure. While the fiction is rooted in fact, it is not intended as an accurate depiction of any real event.
I received an invitation from one Count Dracula to have a pre-Halloween party at his place. At first I was obviously [...]

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This is one of the more hardcore drinking games I’ve come across, and it promises to have you frighteningly drunk in no time. But hey, what’s the holiday for?
You’ll need two shot glasses, a clear liquor (vodka, gin, light rum… the key is that it looks like water) and plenty of cold water.
This game is [...]

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‘Tis the season for pumpkin ales, one of my favorite types of specialty beer. I tried out the brew that claims to be “America’s Original,” the Pumpkin Ale from Buffalo Bill’s in California. What a letdown.
This was a pretty lousy beer. It had a sour yeasty smell underneath a promising blend of pumpkin spices. It [...]

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Whether you’ll be serving them for Halloween or on a hot afternoon, the Zombie is a tasty cocktail with a refreshing punch. Its name comes from the fact that rum and zombies both flourished in the Caribbean.
ZOMBIE
1/2 oz dark rum
1/2 oz light rum
1/2 oz triple sec
2 oz orange juice
2 oz pineapple juice
dash of grenadine
Combine all [...]

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According to an article in the Timaru Herald, a New Zealand woman who works as a liquor merchandiser discovered some damaged inventory in her garage, and next to the empty four liter wine bags was her very drunk labrador, Roxy.
She immediately took Roxy to the vet, who was pretty impressed:
Highfield Veterinary Centre vet Bryan Gregor [...]

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Australians might not have the same keen take on feminism as we do in the States, but then they wouldn’t have been able to make this commercial.
Carlton Mid is a low-alcohol beer from Foster’s. While the beer’s selling point is that you can sit around and drink it forever, Beer Advocate doesn’t think too highly [...]

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After another long sports weekend with plenty of revelry all around (and, I might add, a resurgent performance by my Tigers), I got to thinking about what exactly it is about beer that makes it the best choice for any fandom.
I won’t say I’ve never gone the wine and cheese route while watching a game, [...]

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UC Santa Cruz grad student Chad Renzelman was cooking up a strange brew, according to the San Jose Mercury. The organic chemistry student was making beer laced with morphine.
He used his scientific powers to extract opium from a handful of poppy pods and then converted the opium to morphine to use in his brewing. The [...]

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