If you’re a Harry Potter fan (and come on, how can you not be?) then you’ve wanted to try Butterbeer. The magical, frothy drink that warms your insides sounds incredibly delicious. And with a slew of Potter fans wanting to try the drink as well, there are plenty of different recipes to try.

So throw your own HP party (whether its for the upcoming book release or the new movie) and whip up a batch of Butterbeer for you and your muggle friends.

And if you don’t feel like going to the trouble, drop a shot of butterscotch schnapps into a pint of your favorite beer. It’s surprisingly delicious!

Cold Butterbeer

From Britta Blvd

1 cup butterscotch schnapps

7 cups cream soda (almost one 2 liter bottle)

-Carefully mix just before serving, adding the schnapps to the soda then stirring gently to mix well, or the fizz will dissipate too soon.

Hot Butterbeer

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Okay, this might be the coolest thing I’ve seen in a good while (besides that tampon – stun gun): From June 9 – 17, Crumpler Bags NYC, purveyor of cool cases for your coins, cameras, cassettes, whatever, will give you a FREE bag if you bring them some beer (you’re invited to drink it with them). It’s a straight business transaction: you spin their bag wheel, which picks your free bag. You got out and buy them beer. Return with the beer, they give you the bag, you drink the beer, and keep the bag forever. Talk about symbiosis. I”m stoked. I’ve been waiting and waiting for bartering to come back in style. I knew its day would come.

Unless you’re a terribly unfortunate soul, I suspect at some point in the next three months you’ll find yourself enjoying the great outdoors, perhaps lounging on the beach in your new bikini, hitting a few balls at the driving range, or having a romantic picnic with your summer boy-toy.

Unlike far sweeter countries like Germany we can’t drink outdoors here, which is a crying shame if you ask me. While I wish I could spend my summer drinking beers on the subway in Berlin (only the best way to pre-game ever), I’m stuck in the USA, for better or worse, until I can raise some much needed capital to get me out of here and canoodling with manly Deutsch men and their oh so alluring accents.

So in the meantime, I thought I’d share a few good ways to still get buzzed while working on your tan. No brown bags either—looking like a hobo has never been in style, unless you count the grungy 90s I suppose… Read More »

I’m kind of a beer snob. I refuse to drink Coors Light, Miller Lite, and especially Bud Light. It tastes like water that something awful has been dropped in. I know, I know—how did I ever manage to get through college, right? I mean, I drink it during Beer Pong. But I don’t like it.

I do like to experiment with new beers, though. I really, really adore blueberry beer on a warm day (it’s totally refreshing, you should try it), pumpkin beer in the fall, Brooklyn Lager anytime.

While theres not a whole lot of things that go better together than pizza and beer, can you imagine drinking a pizza flavored beer? Sounds gross. But someone’s drinking it.

A husband and wife from Illinois decided to try a homemade brew after growing too many tomatoes in their garden. They mixed together the tomatoes, basil, oregano and some garlic into a puree, and added it as is into their own blended wheat—and voila! Mama Mia Pizza Beer. Read More »

Sorry, beer, I’m in love with my iPod.

Fashion Find: Tiered Empire Dress.

$25,000 Tuition Sweepstakes (because Flip.com loves you).

Poll: Do you think Don Imus got what he deserved?

Study shows that college students are actually politically-savvy.

A new Sex and the City-esque series. Praise the lord.

Top 10 College Movies.

Silly lawsuits can’t stop the illegal downloading.

In a recent issue of Life & Style, I saw a feature on beer actually being good for your hair (and after all those times I freaked out at the bar?!).

Jamie-Lynn Sigler’s hairstylist, Francky L’Official, says that after he washes her hair he rinses it with Budweiser select and that “the malt has a ton of protein, which gives cuticles a lift, while the vitamin B and natural sugars make hair super shiny.”

I also came to find out that the proteins from the malt and hops coat the hair, build it up and help repair damage!

Now this just seems too good to be true so I decided to test out the random bottles I had in my fridge with these simple recipes (found easily when I googled “beer in hair.”)

Simple Beer Rinse

Once a month use a can of flat beer after shampooing. Choose a beer that does not have a strong odor, shampoo and rinse hair as usual. Pour the flat, warm beer on your hair, work it through and rinse with lukewarm water.

Cider Vinegar & Beer Rinse

1 oz water

2 teaspoons Cider Vinegar

1 ounce of flat Beer

5 drops Rosemary essential oil (optional)

Mix all ingredients together then shampoo and rinse hair as usual. Pour the rinse on your hair and work it through. Rinse with lukewarm water.

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Before I ventured out of the filthy frat basement, the sun burning my retinas, my new flats soaked with Keystone light, perhaps the slight taste of boot in my mouth, maybe lacking a little dignity and my memory for the last six hours, I just sort of assumed that Friday night would forever consist of me blacked out with pong paddle in hand. That is, until I found myself in NYC for an internship.

The free booze had dried up, there wasn’t a basement in sight, and everyone looked older than me. After deciding not to be huge sketchfest by breaking into Columbia in search of other Ivy League drinkers, I figured that the closest thing to a frat was a dive bar during happy-hour. That’s when I learned a few things about drinking outside the basement.

1. Perhaps it’s appropriate to be wasted in an actual bar, but beware of the consequences. I had this insight about when I found myself in the coat closet of some random bar with a lawyer named Hugo- oh he was about thirty, sucking on my nipples. Only after I sobered up, did I realize that perhaps I shouldn’t share this story with anyone else. Oops. Read More »