The man in the above photo is a model. It’s staged. To get that photo, I put “coffee” and “sad” into Getty Images, and voila: Sad Coffee Guy.

 

You know the slogan: “Red Bull. It gives you wings!” A majority of people read it as a clever bit of branding, one indicating the energy drink’s high caffeine content, and leave it at that. But where there’s a slogan with wiggle room, a class-action lawsuit is rarely far behind, and so Red Bull will now be paying anybody in Canada who felt misled by that slogan and would like to make about $10 as compensation for their disappointment.

 

Spend any time looking at beer-focused Instagram accounts and eventually you’ll come across strange glassware; not pint glasses or tulips or glass steins, but vessels that look more like vases or fish bowls. They’re often filled by a so-called “boss pour,” a phenomenon that’s also sometimes called an iceman pour, in which the vessel is full entirely to the brim. It’s relatively new and—to purists—perplexing development.

 

There’s a long-standing practice some people swear improves their coffee: putting salt in it. They claim it will cut the bitterness of coffee and it also smooths out the ‘stale’ taste of tank-stored water.

 

Picture it: A man rushes up to one Jon Bon Jovi and whispers some news in his ear.

 

Vodka, we’re told, is flavorless. It’s wheat, rice, potatoes, corn, rye, sorghum, or any number of other plant rich in starch or sugar, which is distilled into alcohol.

 

Back in June, we checked in on some of the distilleries and bars experimenting with sound-aged or pressure-aged whiskey. To that, Endless West would like to say, “Pffft.” (We are not saying pfft, Cleveland Whiskey is good stuff.)

 

Last week, two customers of Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen restaurant in Las Vegas were transported to the hospital “for injuries involving a drink,” the Associated Press reports.

 
 
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