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Interrupting your regularly scheduled Booze News to bring you this:

It is with many thanks and blushing cheeks that I announce to you all that Stir and Strain has been nominated again this year as a finalist for the Saveur Best Blog awards. Thank you to everyone who nominated me! Voting begins today and goes all the way until April 30th. Don’t worry, I won’t ask you every single day to vote for me. However, I would super appreciate it if you did cast a vote for Stir and Strain!

Regular Booze News will start up again next week. This kinda trumps the rest of the stories I had planned.

Last week for the holiday weekend Monday was the round up post for Aw, Nuts! I hope you all enjoyed it! Now we’re back on schedule with this week’s booze news.

• Negroni Week starts today. I kicked it off a little early last week.
• How are people not surprised that the unmarked bottle of slushie booze bought through Instagram could potentially kill them?
• Sometimes I find it funny that we need to remind people how to behave in bars. Like this.
• New for the 21st century! Snake oil dealers are now working with ice.
• 8 weird cocktail ingredients (a few of which you’ve seen here before).
• Texas, land of beer, is now the land of salty vodka drinkers.
• World’s most expensive drinks always tend to have a diamond stuck in there somewhere. Here’s a tour of them!
• Here’s 10 things that local venerated L.A. barman Eric Alperin hates (I hate these things too).
• Bottled cocktail: not just a fad.
• Need some day drinking ideas? Try these out.
• And whatever you do, don’t let Mario Batali make you a drink.