Thursday was International Beer Day! Did you raise a glass of beer to former president Jimmy Carter? You should have: Carter's actions as president helped start the brewing renaissance that helps keep your local stocked with delicious craft beers.

If you're too drunk to drive, it's a good idea to call a friend for a ride. It's not a good idea to call 911. Three times. For a ride to the liquor store.

This 57-year-old Florida man was arrested for dialing 911 three times in order to get a ride to the liquor store. The barely understandable boozehound gives new definition to slurred speech, but at least he didn't drive drunk! Video inside.

A new Gallup study on Americans and booze has some interesting facts. Did you know that young American men love beer? And that Americans like alcohol? Or that people on both coasts prefer wine? Stereotypes come true with science!

City officials in San Diego, tired of drunk frat boys littering their pristine coast, in 2007 banned drinking on the beach. But there's a loophole: "If you're floating, you're good," according to police. So thousands get wasted on rafts, brah.

British brewery BrewDog is producing a $750 beer called "The End of History Ale." At 55 per cent volume, it's stronger than whiskey or vodka. Also, all the bottles are placed inside dead animals.

Do you have a penchant for high-alcohol-content (55%, y'all) beer and taxidermy, and also have $760 to blow? If so, then this new beer product packaged inside dead rodents by Scottish company BrewDog is for you. Video and more, inside.

Brooklyn yuppies are cooking up more than just artisanal pizza and nuclear reactors these days. Looking to cultivate their Great Depression chic schtick, "hipster kids" and "foodie enthusiasts" are making illegal moonshine. Ride the Williamsburg White Lightning!

Knowing how to make a solid drink is a great party trick, especially if it's one that has been enjoyed equally by Carrie Bradshaw and Ernest Hemmingway.

This mess of an anti-drinking ad laughably posits that British—British!—kids will puke all over themselves after "three large vodkas" or "two double shots." Hell. Two double shots of heroin, maybe. Maybe. [Copyranter at AnimalNY]

["The process is cumbersome and assumes the worst in Pennsylvania's wine consumers — that we are a bunch of conniving underage drunks," says Wine School of Philadelphia president Keith Wallace about new breathalyzer-equipped wine kiosks in supermarkets. AP]

Statistics assembled by England's Office of National Statistics show that Britons live on average 10 years longer than in the 1970s. They're also much fatter, and alcohol-related deaths have doubled since the 1990s. Happier and (somehow) healthier! [Telegraph]

The Alaskan town of Wasilla is home to some pretty amazing people, like Sarah Palin and Levi Johnston. And now the town's Alaska Distillery is rolling out a new Smoked Salmon Flavored Vodka. The first batches were described as "greasy."

New York's State Liquor Authority just approved a 192-proof (96% alcohol) Polish vodka. Spirytus is "incredibly sharp. It takes your breath away," according to a random boozehound the Daily News interviewed. "It's like getting punched in the solar plexus."

Dallas' Police Department released a video of 27-year-old Officer Kelly Beemer getting dragged out of a bar, and another one of Beemer screaming, whipping out her gun, and firing it into the floor of her cop boyfriend's patrol car.

Today Regis and Kelly shared a few letters and photos received from viewers. Kelly joked about drinking alcohol during breaks (all jokes have some truth, am I right?), then turned a man's pride for his huge asparagus into sexual references.

Good news: A team of scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital are one step closer to being able to regrow livers, after they created working liver grafts and transplanted them into rats. Drink up—you can fix it later! [BBC]

Every time Lindsay Lohan drinks, it costs $10,000. English muffins can trigger false positives on alcohol monitors. Probation is the most complicated thing in the world. These are the things I've learned from the daily travails of the Lohans.

Lindsay Lohan tweeted that reports of her alcohol-monitoring bracelet going off were "fucking disgusting." But they are "fucking true." A new bench warrant has been issued for Lilo's arrest, and her infraction cost her a cool $100,000 in bail.

Several sources report Lindsay Lohan's booze-sniffing SCRAM bracelet alerted authorities last night of either alcohol, tampering, or a missed curfew. Now her lawyers are reportedly at an emergency meeting with her judge at the Beverly Hills Courthouse. Updated.