Beer For Dogs?

Yes, it’s beer! But, it’s for dogs.

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Non-alcoholic and non-carbonated, our Happy Tail Ale is the ultimate liquid refreshment for your best friend. Our beer is made in a real brewery and starts with artesian water and choice malted barley. Brewed in 500-gallon copper kettles, Happy Tail Ale also features all-natural beef drippings (no by-products or chemicals!). Plus, it’s fortified with Glucosamine and Vitamin E! Every ingredient in Happy Tail Ale is human grade, as Dog Star Brewing Company does not believe in giving our canine family members less than superior food and beverages.

Sure, there are lots of ways you show your dog you love him: Taking him for a walk, giving him a belly rub, tossing him a few treats…but how about a beer? Of course, you can’t give him the same beer you grab from the fridge when YOU want a treat! Alcohol, hops and carbonation are bad for dogs. But what about giving him a drink that not only tastes good, but is healthy as well?

Your dog will love our Happy Tail Ale, cold from the fridge and in a flavor he loves!

Distilled Spirits Council Supports “We Don’t Serve Teens” Campaign

The Distilled Spirits Council is joining with dozens of national, state and local organizations in supporting the Federal Trade Commission’s “We Don’t Serve Teens” 2009 Fall campaign to help get the word out that serving alcohol to teens is unsafe, illegal and irresponsible.

“Research shows that not only are parents and other adults the primary influence over a teen’s decision regarding drinking but they are also a primary source of alcohol for teens — whether they know it or not,” said DISCUS President Peter H. Cressy. “As the school year begins, this campaign provides an important reminder to parents and other adults that serving alcohol to teens is unsafe, illegal, and irresponsible.”

The “We Don’t Serve Teens” education campaign is based on research showing that most teens who drink obtain alcohol from social sources — including sneaking alcohol from their parents’ homes; having older friends buy it; or obtaining it at parties. The campaign website, \www.dontserveteens.com, provides information about teen drinking, how to reduce teens’ access to alcohol, practical tips for parents on talking to teens about alcohol and camera ready campaign materials.

The “We Don’t Serve Teens” nationwide campaign has been supported by a diverse group of public and private partners, including America’s leading distillers, federal, state, and local governments, advertising and media organizations, and consumer groups.

Since its inception, the “We Don’t Serve Teens” Back-to-School campaign has generated an unprecedented 1.1 billion advertising impressions with a market value of over $9 million, and has been recognized by the U.S. Senate and officials from 40 states.

“The ‘We Don’t Serve Teens’ campaign has been hailed as one of the most successful public service campaigns in history. These types of public-private partnerships are truly making a positive impact in the fight against underage drinking,” said Cressy noting that the latest Federal data from the 2008 National Survey on Drug Use and Health released yesterday shows a continued steady decline in underage drinking.

According to the survey, past month drinking among youth 12 to 17 years old dropped from 15.9% in 2007 to 14.6% in 2008; binge drinking was down from 9.7% in 2007 to 8.8% in 2008; and heavy drinking was down from 2.3% in 2007 to 2.0% in 2008. In addition, the most recent Monitoring The Future study found a continued decline in youth reporting that it is “fairly easy” or “very easy” to get alcohol.

Organizations supporting the campaign include the Distilled Spirits Council, U.S. Department of Treasury’s Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, American Beverage Licensees, Beer Institute, National Alcohol Beverage Control Association, National Association of Broadcasters, National Conference of State Liquor Administrators, National Consumer League, National Organizations for Youth Safety, Students Against Destructive Decisions, The Century Council, and Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America

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ABI Asks: Why Would MADD Oppose Obama’s Beer Summit?

MADD’s Opposition to Beers at the White House Exposes Group’s Anti-Alcohol Sentiment

Washington — Today, the American Beverage Institute (ABI) criticized Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) for publicly lamenting that President Obama chose to hold a “Beer Summit” in an effort to cool tensions between the gentlemen involved in the recent police incident in Cambridge.

“MADD is no longer an organization that opposes drunk driving, but an anti-alcohol group that has been hijacked by the modern day temperance movement,” said Sarah Longwell, ABI Managing Director. “That someone in a position of leadership at MADD would criticize President Obama for simply drinking beer, illustrates the neoprohibitionist mentality that now dominates the group.”

Last week, President Obama met with the men involved in the Cambridge police incident in an attempt to diffuse the situation. Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, and Cambridge police Sergeant James Crowley enjoyed cold beers while working out their differences. But in an interview this weekend, the President of the Delaware chapter of MADD, Nancy Raynor, expressed concern that the event could send the wrong message to young people who saw the president drinking on TV.

“MADD’s position on the ‘Beer Summit’ should remind Americans that the group once dedicated to preventing drunk driving has transitioned into leading the anti-alcohol movement,” said Longwell. “MADD has even been denounced by its founder Candy Lightner as ‘very neo-prohibitionist.’”

MADD is now focused on preventing any alcohol consumption prior to driving through its support for polices like sobriety checkpoints, which serve to scare drivers who may have enjoyed one drink prior to driving home. Recently, MADD went so far as to denounce New Jersey’s Flying Fish Brewery for naming its beers after turnpike exits, claiming that the brewery was promoting drunk driving.

MADD even wants to put alcohol-sensors in the cars of all Americans. The federal government is already funding the development of such technology and MADD has asked for $30 million more from Congress to go toward the project (learn more at www.InterlockFacts.com). The director of that project has admitted that the alcohol sensors would be set below the legal limit, representing the end to moderate, responsible consumption of alcohol prior to driving.

“MADD should return to its original mission of stopping drunk driving,” said Longwell. “The more time and resources the group spends pushing an anti-alcohol agenda, the more irrelevant it becomes.”

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I agree avoid the bar show at all cost. It’s not for professional bartenders. I’ve heard about this RDP Group. I don’t think they are honest people. Go to your local bar. You’ll be better off. Help the bartenders! Don’t give these people your money. The Bartenders Guild is being run by amateurs that want to be bartenders. Stay home!
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New Jersey Bartender

Barshows are getting worse and worse every year. All they do is take wannabe bartender’s money, have a lot of crap that you don’t need, and are usually run by people that know nothing about the bar businesss with phony wannabes giving seminars who know even less. How many times can you listen to Gary Regan or Dale Degroff? And now the USBG in NY is trying to get involved. They can’t even get people to go to their own meetings.

I think they should all stay home, or go to bars and help their fellow bartenders make money. That’s what it’s all about. Not these egotistical bar shows for has-beeen writers and mixologists/bar-chefs who have only been tending bars for about three weeks. Get over it. Move on.

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His good deed – returning $3,000 found in LIRR car

Given the economic hard times, commuter-rail bartender Timothy Myles couldn’t believe someone meant to abandon $3,000 cash in a Long Island Rail Road passenger car.

So Myles scooped up the $100 and $20 bills he found scattered on the floor shortly after a train pulled into Penn Station at 12:24 p.m. Monday and turned it in to the railroad’s lost-and-found office there.

Read the rest of this amazing story HERE.

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