French research has shown the louder the music, the faster you drink. Looking to nurse your beverage? Seek out a quiet lounge, or just do what we do: drink alone. Excuse us while we cry into our pint glass.

Our own personal favorite brewery in this or any other parallel universe just released their specialty beer release calendar for 2009. Let’s peer into the crystal ball together, shall we?

Sick of all those tiring rehab programs that encourage “sobriety?” I mean, seriously, isn’t moderation the key to a healthy lifestyle? A few hospitals allegedly offered a unique incentive for enrollment in their detox programs ...

Just when you thought the efficiency experts over at InBev have done enough cutting back, SeaWorld and Busch Gardens have eliminated free beer sampling. Won’t someone think of the children parents? 

The fourth annual World Series of Beer Pong grows in size and spectacle each year. This year was out of control. How do we know? The AP sent a team of reporters. Who sponsored the tourney? PBR. Who’s ready for a riot between frat guys and hipsters?

No doubt, by now you’ve seen the new Bud Light ad campaign stressing “drinkability” as the reason folks prefer Bud Light as the No. 1 light beer in the world. We decided to put that theory to the test in our own blind taste test investigation.

What, pouring a beer with your hands just not enough of a challenge for you? How an automated beer pour using an iPhone, some robotics programming and a K’Nex set. SHOCKING VIDEO after the jump.

It’s Style Saturday over here at The Love of Beer, because we’re offering you the chance to taste a brew that costs $20 a bottle. Feast your liver on this decadent barrel-aged treat. Chugging highly discouraged.

Does Beer before Liquor really make you sicker? We break down contrasting points of view and offer our own sound tried-and-true advice for helping your evening end in the bedroom, not the bathroom. Trust us, we’re nightlife experts.

From Denver, beer capital of the world, comes the story of a man who refuses to throw out the remnants of a night gone drunk. Why recycle when you can save your canned and bottled goodness as an interior decorating breakthrough?

We’re going to start the new year off right ... with a cheap beer that not many have had, but all of you have probably seen. Enjoy the neverending source of unmemorable liver-jockeying that is Stroh’s. Please enjoy responsibly.

A delicious Belgian-styled ale from the Brooklyn Brewery with double the alcohol and double the taste. You’d never know it, though, by it’s slender body.

From the department of “Everyone loves this beer when they first start drinking craft brews but after repeated tastings becomes bland and stale” department comes Otter Creek Copper Ale. We think our synopsis was pretty dead on.

Sackets Harbor Brewing Company makes one of the smoothest, frostiest, most quintessentially excellent beers we’ve tried in a good long time. If you enjoy citrus hops, smooth malt, balanced flavor and pizza (who doesn’t love pizza?) you’ll love it. 

Some time ago, we told you a great story about this brew, regarding a girl who may or may not have been impregnated while under the influence. Today, we tell another tale ... this time with infinite more amounts of debauchery.