Nahua Indians armed with machetes kidnapped 13 reporters in southwestern Mexico, but released them and instead grabbed the film crew from Grupo Modelo that was shooting a beer commercial on their land without permission. All were eventually released unharmed. [AP]

After the world collectively shrieked with horror at two-year-old smoking baby Ardi Rizal, the parents of this three-year-old Chinese tot thought to themselves, "Hey, we've got a smoking baby. Ours is a boozehound, too." Self-destructing babies: Your ticket to fame.

We're so thrilled to have Brooklyn Brewery as a sponsor of the 2010 Webutante Ball that we made this promo featuring the thirty cases of beer they donated, and the task of getting them from the brewery to the party.

Did you know that just by sitting there, not drinking, you are killing the American economy? We're currently in the midst of the biggest "lite" beer sale decline in recent memory. The culprit? You. (And "Drinkability").

After the IRS ordered Pabst's owners to sell, the brewer of blue-collar beverages languished on the market for years. Then something remarkable happened: hipsters discovered it. So now the guy who owns Vlasic pickles plunked down $250M to buy it.

A Massachusetts man allegedly offered someone his 3-month-old daughter for two 40-ounce beers. He was not arrested.

Young people will stop at nothing to get messed up. YouTube is flush with videos of misguided youths introducing alcohol to their nether regions, so we went to Union Square to get to the bottom of this mysterious trend.

Craft beer pioneer Anchor Brewing Co. has been sold to the owners of Skyy Vodka.

The beerbottle has always been used as a weapon of choice on television and in the movies, so the Mythbusters wanted to discover just how much damage the bottle can inflict. Pigheads, jello, tons of smashing and wasted beer inside!

Workers at the Carlsberg beer factory in Denmark were allowed to drink as much as they wanted. Management tried to limit them to three pints at lunch. They slurred out their displeasure in no unshertain... unshert... uncertain terms.

The male brain's "sexual pursuit area" is 2.5x larger than a female's. CNN Special Correspondent Dr. Louann Brizendine uses metaphors like "if testosterone were beer," and "men look at attractive women the way we look at pretty butterflies," to explain.

The ad below for some Australian beer explains exactly when you know you need a beer: when your balls tingle. Yea, maybe in Australia.

The most surprising revelation in Ad Age's story on Bud Light's failed "Drinkability" ad campaign is that "Drinkability" was apparently supposed to be an actual thing—the "ideal rational benefit," the consultants said. Haha. Really? Shut up. Really? "Drinkability?"

Spring is right around the corner, so instead of partying with your buds with a cooler of High Life and a sprinkler, turn your backyard into a Teutonic Party Zone and you'll be toasting to Gaston in no time.

Beer bones! Soda cancer! Money fear! Broken hearts! Happy marriage! Michelle O-fitness! It's time for your Gawker health watch, where we watch health—for YOU!

Wouldn't it be great if researchers proved once and for all that guzzling beer is good for you? You're in luck. They just did. [Reuters]

Using explosives to put out a forest fire is as counter-intuitive as it is awesome. Opening a beer with another beer is just plain neat. Learn these moves because you're never going to be brave enough to do this otherwise.

Guinness rang in the new year—and their 250th anniversary— by airing this live fireworks display at 17:59 local Ireland time. Why 17:59? History states that Arthur Guinness signed the brewery's 9,000-year-lease on New Years Eve in 1759.

This video is aimed towards that elusive niche market of party animals, those not into the novelty of a plastic hat who watch a lot of MacGuyver with a knowing grin on their mug.

Family holidays can be stressful. And hitting the hard liquor will just cause lips to be pursed and tuts to be tutted. But the solution is here in the form of 32 per cent alcohol beer.