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New Yorker Keith Gruber jailed after showing up with open can

(NEWSER) - Late, drunk, and carrying an open can of Busch beer is no way to show up to a DWI hearing. Upstate New Yorker Keith Gruber—who has prior DWI convictions—was more than an hour late for the 10:30am hearing and had four more unopened cans of beer in his bag, authorities said. The judge asked Gruber if he enjoyed his "liquid lunch," then revoked his bail and sent him to jail, the Middletown Times Herald-Record reports. (Click for another tale of a not-so-smart tippler .) More»

How's your hangover, Milwaukee?

(NEWSER) - It's the day after the big night. Which cities are likely waking up with the gnarliest hangovers? By combining stats on average monthly alcohol consumption, binge drinking levels, and number of deaths from alcoholic liver disease, the Daily Beast came up with a list of the 40 drunkest cities ... and notes that they're disproportionally in parts of the US that see coooold winters:

1. Milwaukee: Takes the top slot thanks, in part, to the fact that 21.8% of adults here are binge drinkers

'Giant cocktail party' to gather at Eiffel Tower

(NEWSER) - Paris cops are girding for thousands of drunken revelers expected at the foot of the Eiffel tower this weekend, even though they warned it's illegal. The Paris gathering, organized via Facebook, will be the latest in a series of 58 mass drunkathons or "apéros géants" that are giving police nightmares across France. One drunken reveler plunged to his death from a bridge in Nantes last week at a tipsy gathering of 10,000. More»

He was drunk too, but that goes without saying

(NEWSER) - Kiefer Sutherland is known for drunken antics like head-butting a guy and racking up a $700 bar tab by 1pm . Add yesterday’s story to his list: The 24 star was drunk, of course, and by 4am had managed to lose his shirt and get unceremoniously tossed out the back door of a London strip club. Making this mental image even better, one of the four bodyguards escorting him out had Sutherland in a headlock, the New York Post notes. More»

Females were our first brewers, before Christ

(NEWSER) - Though both the brewing and consumption of beer might seem to have “manly” stamped all over them, it’s in fact women who drove suds’ popularity. Since thousands of years before Christ, a British historian tells the Daily Mail , brewing was done in the home, and females were in charge. Cleaner than water, Jane Peyton notes, beer “was part of the daily diet and therefore part of a woman’s domestic chores to produce.” More»