Alcoholic beer-flavored ice cream launched

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A New York firm believes it is the first in the world to create and sell alcoholic beer-flavored ice cream.

The ice cream, called Frozen Pints, comes in seven different flavors and the strongest tub has an alcohol level of 3.2 per cent. 

Each special portion of ice cream comes in a pint and costs $8.00. Peach Lambic is the weakest at one per cent, while Pumpkin Ale is the strongest.

 

READ MORE: Daily Mail - UK

COMMUNITY NETWORKING SEMINAR: UNITED WE STAND

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The United-We-Stand Campaign empowers local neighborhoods to help prevent underage drinking by engaging in educational, service learning, and media advocacy activities.

This seminar will provide information and materials on how community organizations can partner with community members, local store owners, and teens to stop minors from illegally obtaining alcohol from grocery stores; reduce the over-promotion of alcohol advertising; and spotlight caring and responsible merchants working to keep neighborhoods safe and healthy places to work and live.

Strategies/Tools include: Conducting Alcohol Compliance Checks, Starting a Sticker Shock Project, Recognizing Responsible Business Owners (Unstung Heroes), and Exploring Alcohol Advertising (Neighborhood Ad-count).

Who Should Attend: Individuals, Non-Profit Agencies, Youth Serving Organizations, Civic and Neighborhood Groups interested in identifying youth, adult, and volunteer activities and service projects focused on community safety and well-being.

Registration Deadline: Sign up by Tuesday, October 15th. Walk-ins will not be permitted. Click here to RSVP

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Hello Kitty Beer Gets Plenty Of Buzz

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Hello Kitty, having been branded onto just about every other imaginable consumer product on this planet, and it is now being used to market beer in Asia.

Consumers in China and Taiwan can now pick from six fruit-flavored brews, including peach, lemon-lime, passion fruit, and banana, sporting the cartoon cat on the can. According to beer maker, Taiwan Tsing Company, the beverage is about half the alcohol content of a Budweiser, they're not very potent. As Kotaku's publication quoted, "They're so ridiculously smooth and tasty that one can barely tell they're drinking beer. It's almost like drinking fruit juice, even if the cans do say 'beer." But to consumers, it is misleading as another alcopop masked as a fruit drink.

 

FEATURE ARTICLE: Huffington Post

1 in 5 High School Seniors Binge Drinks: Study

 

 

According to a new study published in the September 16^th issue of JAMA Pediatrics, it’s common for American high school seniors to binge on alcohol, and some have as many as 15 or more drinks at a time.
 

Binge drinking is defined as five or more drinks for men and four or more drinks for women, while having 10 or more drinks in a row is defined as extreme binge drinking.

 

FEATURE ARTICLE: CBS News