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  • Ask drinkplanner beer and wine allergies

    Ask DrinkPlanner is a reoccurring feature here where readers submit their questions, and the crack team at DrinkPlanner does our best to answer. Got a question about booze? Ask us! “Dear DrinkPlanner, I am 55 years old, and about three years ago I developed an allergy to beer and wine

  • Live oval vodka chat is tonight

    The day is finally here, you guys. Starting around 7pm Eastern we’ll be chatting and videocamming LIVE from Beleza while having some drinks mixed for us using Oval vodka.  You can join us by heading to the chat here and the video should be broadcasting from here.  I’m not entir

  • Ask drinkplanner resurrected

    ‘Round these parts we used to have a weekly feature that ran every Friday called Ask DrinkPlanner, where you good people would write me questions about drinking, drinker’s etiquette, and the boozing lifestyle and I’d answer with great wisdom and jocularity.  After a while i

  • Oval vodka tdn live with drinkplanner

    This is a big one, gang.  NEXT Thursday, May 28th at 7pm, I’ll be chatting and webcamming LIVE from Beleza in midtown Atlanta to make drinks with Oval vodka.  My big beardy head will be there, along with Samantha Harrigan from Cocktail Culture, as well as some local press folks and e

  • Bottle shots frostshots frozen liquor shots

    And now for something completely different… I know, it’s been too long since I’ve done one of these.  MY BAD.  This time we take a look at FrostShots! The Lowdown: So let me state right up front that I have no high-minded cocktailian delusions going into this review.  Th

  • Help dirty south wine get a really goode job

    So here’s the deal: Hardy Wallace of Dirty South Wine is throwing his hat in the ring to hopefully win a kickass 6-month gig with Murphy-Goode Winery.  And he is throwing it hard.  He’s launched a web 2.0 onslaught campaign to get the job (with websites and Twitters and the whol

  • Dont stop your screaming

    Happy Monday, amirite!?!  Yeah, that’s about what I figured.  Anyway, just a little video happiness for your Worst Day of the Week.  Anyone who’s ever spent any time in a bar knows exactly what happens when “that song” is played either karaoke-style, by an 80’

  • A new look

    Well here it is, our brand new layout!  If you’re reading this on an RSS feed, click on through to see all the bright and shiny newness.  I know it may take a little bit of getting used to, and that we all fear change, but I think it’s a good look for us.  We’ve moved mos

  • Thursday drink night beefeater 24

    Tonight’s Thursday Drink Night is a big one.  Beefeater 24 is the spirit to be reckoned with this time, and a whole slew of the cocktail community’s best and brightest will be on hand to mix it up.  Besides the regular group of TDN miscreants and naer-do-wells, none other than

  • How to get to drinkplanner part 2

    We’ve done this once before, but it’s worth doing it again. Some of the ways people find our site are hilarious and/or frightening.  Either way, it’s always fun looking through the logs and selecting a few gems to share with you.   wild turkey pitchers - Again, I am shock