Powdered Beer Exists: The undoubtedly well-meaning folks at To Øl announced this week that they have created a powdered craft beer. The science behind it is remarkable, but let’s face facts: this is frightening, dystopian stuff. It’s like someone announcing they’ve produced freeze-dried love. We’re keeping an eye out for a review, but until then we’re keeping an eye on our pitchforks.
The Basementless Guide to Aging: Want to cellar your beers, but live somewhere that doesn’t have a basement to help out? This is New York City, we feel your pain. Stock up on helpful ideas here, then get down to bothering the bajeezus out of whomever you live with when you start leaving insulated cases of beer around. They’ll thank you one day.
Congrats to The Dead Rabbit!: NYC mainstay The Dead Rabbit was named the top bar in the world by Drinks International Magazine, crowning a list including several other NYC notables among celebrated watering holes around the world. Raise many, many glasses to them, and take a good look at the rest of the list too– it’s a veritable who’s-who of places to visit.
Bottle vs. Bear: A Saskatoon man successfully fought off a bear with only a broken wine bottle and the strength of someone whose sleep has been disturbed by a car-sized predator. The man sustained minor injuries from the bear before scaring it off to the underbrush. The bear remains at large, but the public is advised to keep an eye out for suspiciously hairy people entering liquor stores.
Home Far From Home: Travel boldly: Atlas Obscura pulled together a list of the most obscure bars in the world, making remote travel suddenly seem like a snap. We believe you can explore just about anywhere as long as you know where you’ll be sleeping and drinking. All the other survival processes tend to kind of fall in place after that. We think.
Secret’s Out on Dog Bars: Dogs and other animals (unless they’re service animals) are technically not allowed to enter bars in New York City, but some are willing to be a tad lenient. If you’re a pet owner, you’ll read this article like holy texts; if you’re not, well, get on that, would you? Your plants might be good listeners, but they’re probably not much for cuddling.