Police say a dentist in Pennsylvania tried to work on patients while drunk, and after his staff called 911 he told responding officers he'd had an entire bottle of vodka. The Butler Eagle reports Gregory Bellotti is charged with public drunkenness and reckless endangerment. Police say ...
Researchers in Singapore have brewed up a beer containing probiotic bacteria that can improve gut health and boost the immune system. Food researcher Alcine Chan, 23, experimented for almost a year with a recipe of malt, alcohol, hops and a strain of probiotic bacteria until ...
Brewery executive Kosuke Kuji brought his best sake to a New York booze showcase 16 years ago hoping to promote high-end sake to a new generation of sophisticated foreign drinkers. They were a little disappointed. It wasn't that sake from his Nanbu-Bijin brewery failed to ...
Actor Shia LaBeouf apologized Wednesday for his expletive-filled rants hurled at the officers who arrested him in Georgia last week on charges of disorderly conduct and public intoxication, and said he is seeking help for addiction. In a statement posted on his Twitter page, the ...
U.S. film star Shia LaBeouf was arrested in Georgia early Saturday after becoming "aggressive" towards a police officer and behaving in a "disorderly" fashion, authorities said. According to the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department, LaBeouf was arrested in the early hours after he approached a bystander ...
Craft beer makers and major brewers are racing to develop new uniquely flavored malt beverages to take advantage of pending changes in the nation's tax law governing alcohol production. The use of fruits, spices and other ingredients such as dried bonito will be allowed in ...
Even moderate drinking is linked to brain damage and a slight decline in mental skills, according to a study released Wednesday that calls into question many national alcohol guidelines. Men and women who consume 14 to 21 drinks a week over decades are two to ...
Have a drinking problem? Don't worry, you can keep drinking while working to get over it. That's the message put out by the Kurihama Medical and Addiction Center in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, which opened the nation's first "controlled drinking" outpatient clinic last month. And it works ...
An Indian state minister has given hundreds of wooden bats to newly-wed brides, urging them to use the paddle as a weapon if their husbands turn alcoholic or abusive. Gopal Bhargava gave the bats — which are used to get dirt out of clothes in ...
Drinking at your neighborhood bar would appear to be inconsistent with a Buddhist's quest for clarity of mind and enlightenment. Intoxicants, after all, have the effect of clouding the senses, not to mention one's judgment. But for Buddhist monk Yoshinobu Fujioka, who operates a bar ...
Small transparent spheres filled with natural or flavored water could help provide a solution to London's plastic waste problem, according to the startup company based in the British capital that manufactures them. With many cities around the world struggling to dispose of vast numbers of ...
Russians, who are among the biggest drinkers in the world, are developing a new taste for alcohol-free beer, which could help save a brewing industry that has stalled under government initiatives to discourage drinking. Sales of zero-alcohol beer jumped 12 percent last year even as ...
