“Ask a Former Drunk” is a five-part advice series running on Tuesdays. Read last week’s installment here.

Ask a Former Drunk: When Do You Know You Have a Problem?

Last year, I wrote a memoir about my long, tortured love affair with alcohol and my decision to quit at 35. The book was called Blackout. Since then, I’ve received mountains of correspondence from people who have their own complicated issues with alcohol, and each Tuesday, for the next four weeks, I’ll be answering…

Weep for the 1960s Ad Man: A Quality Scotch Shortage Is Nigh

Madeleine Davies

3/08/16 2:15pm

A recent boom in the popularity of single malt Scotch whiskey is leading to a worldwide shortage, distilleries report. Now what will troubled businessmen sip while contemplating their troubles and staring longingly out skyscraper windows?

Proof That Feminism Is Working: Women Now Consume Almost as Much Alcohol as Men

Stassa Edwards

11/24/15 11:00pm

Finally, an important gender gap is closing. No, that that pesky pay gap, you know the one that will close in a short 118 years, but rather the alcohol gap. According to new numbers released by the National Institutes of Health, women are drinking more, while their male counterparts are drinking less. The trend is…

How to Make the Dark Incantation, a Cinnamon-Bourbon Brew for Your Best Witches

David Antonio Perezcassar

10/16/15 12:51pm

Welcome to Boozinette. This is the Dark Incantation.

Saturday Night Social: a Will Ferrell-Themed Bar Now Exists

Marie Lodi

10/10/15 7:00pm

Get your cowbell ready, because some hardcore Will Ferrell fans decided to open up a themed bar in his honor. Stay Classy, New York, a new drinking spot on the Lower East Side, will feature artisan cocktails inspired by Ferrell’s most famous characters, reports Gothamist.

The State Where Women Could Drink at 18 and Men Had to Wait

Madeleine Davies

10/06/15 2:00pm

If you were an 18-year-old woman living in Illinois between the end of prohibition and 1961, you were legally free to enter a bar and order the drink of your choosing. If you were an 18-year-old man, you would not be afforded the same right.

Florida Approves 55,000-Square-Foot Guns 'N' Booze Death Trap

Joanna Rothkopf

8/20/15 2:45pm

What doesn’t Daytona Beach, Florida (America’s cultural capital) have to offer? If you said a gun range where you can shoot and get fucked up, you would now be wrong.

Note to Partiers: You're Not Allowed to Fuck on the Streets of Montauk

Madeleine Davies

8/05/15 3:40pm

During the summer, New York City’s most wealthy and debauched will often escape the heat of the city by heading for East Hampton, bringing with them suitcases full of madras shorts, straw fedoras, and—most importantly—their shittiest behavior. Well, bad news for these dumb Gatsby wannabes: East Hampton Town Supervisor…

Dope AF 110-Year-Old Woman Says Champagne of Beers Is Key To Longevity

Joanna Rothkopf

8/03/15 9:25am

New Jersey resident Agnes Fenton celebrated her 110th birthday on Saturday (“just another day,” she said) and owes her extraordinary longevity to two things: Miller High Life and Johnnie Walker. DAMN, GIRL.

Wisconsin Is America's Drunkest State (We're #1! We're #1!)

Madeleine Davies

7/02/15 3:30pm

Is Wisconsin America’s drunkest state? Is Madeleine Davies, one of Jezebel’s multiple Wisconsin-born writers, drunk right now? The answer to both questions is a resounding yes!

How to Get Shitfaced This Summer (But Not Too Shitfaced)

Tracy Moore

6/17/15 2:50pm

It’s summer. You’re going to some festivals. You’ll be outside, at bars with patios, drinking. If you’re most people, no one ever told you how to drink well or right. Hey, no one told us. More often, people told us not to drink—ever—because it’s bad. But preaching booze abstinence works about as well as sex…