Posts Tagged ‘drinking’

5 Reasons to Drink This Weekend

We’re not the type of people who need a reason to drink. If we’re breathing that’s reason enough. But for those who need more, here you go:   Game of Thrones: The season finale is this Sunday night. The entire DIA team is obsessed with GoT. We’ll be celebrating the gore. National Donut Day: We’ve

5 Reasons to Drink This Weekend

Photo   We’re not the type of people who need a reason to drink. If we’re breathing that’s reason enough. But for those who need more, here you go: Preakness: The second step to the Triple Crown is this weekend. Drink in hand, we’re betting on Orb to take it all. Cannes Film Festival: The

Workplaces That Get Down With Employee Drinking

Photo   We’ve all had one (or more…) of those jobs where you’d sell your left arm to have a drink while you work. Unfortunately, you can’t all work at Drinking in America (suckers!), so aside from us, we’ve found some other workplaces that support their employees who like to throw back a few cold

Why Waiters Love Drinkers

Photo We’re going to tell you something wonderful: waiters and bartenders love you. Why? Because you drink alcohol, duh. A recent study (they looked at over 4 million guest checks from US restaurants, night clubs and bars) found that drinkers tip over twenty percent on average. After making that little discovery, they broke it down

Her Shot: Can Pregnant Women Really Drink?

Photo Finding out you’re pregnant is (usually) a pretty awesome thing. It seems to be an overall wonderful experience, but there’s always been one caveat: you can’t drink any alcohol. Ever. But what if you could have an occasional cocktail?  Unfortunately, researchers seem to be at a crossroads when it comes to making that decision.

Is Monday-Drinking Acceptable?

First of all, you’re reading about this on “Drinking In America” so clearly we’re a little biased. We’re cool with you drinking whenever you want (just make sure to stay safe.) Since we’re your resource for all things boozy, we figured we should tackle the Monday-drinking debate.  Reasons you shouldn’t drink on a Monday: •

The Abstract Art of Drinking

When we see a bottle of liquor, we see a delicious drink waiting to happen. However, there are some people out there that see more than a drink… they see art. The best part about these artist/photographers is that their work doesn’t look like it has anything to do with alcohol at first glance –

Drinking Inspired Halloween Costumes

Photo Halloween is one of our favorite holidays because we are able to dress up to show the world how much we love drinking. What could be better than that? Here are a few of our favorites for Halloween 2012. Group Beer Pong You’ve probably seen people that dress up like a beer pong table,

Boozy Apps

Photo That’s a fancy lookin’ phone you got there. You know what would make it even better? Some new (drinking) apps. Forget Angry Birds – you need to make sure your new iPhone 5 has the best alcohol-related apps out there. Oh yeah, and don’t worry… if you haven’t upgraded to the new iPhone yet

Her Shot: Mood Drinking

There must be a reason alcoholic beverages are called “spirits.” Do different drinks affect our spirits differently? DIA went digging. We found plenty of theories — most of them from armchair analysts who have “proof” that: “Champagne makes me happy.” “Wine makes me flirty.” “Beer makes me tired.” “Whiskey turns me into a jerk.” “It’s