Happy Monday, folks! Welcome back to Booze In The News, where you’ll find the latest, funniest and most obscure newsworthy, alcohol-related bits all in one place. Hope everyone out there had a happy and safe Halloween and remembered to Fall Back!

In what is clearly the “next big thing” in alcoholic beverage marketing, a green light-up shell has been “designed” for Dom Pérignon.

Two monsters are ready to fight: canned energy versus bottled beer.  Monster energy drink maker, Hansen Beverage Co., does not want Rock Art Brewery to label their Vermont-brewed beer “The Vermonster.” Hansen wants to cry protect their trademark and prevent any confusion between their energized acid and the 22-ounce bottled beer.

Maybe Rock Art should try suffixes. “Red…der Bull.”

Russia might raise taxes on beer by 300%. In 2008, 25% of alcohol sales came from beer while 66% came from vodka. Not sure whether or not this has anything to do with the country’s reports that alcohol plays a part in about 500,000 deaths each year, but Benjamin Franklin’s popular quote probably sums this situation up best: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

Kava Kava doesn’t give you a hangover like booze, but still has the potential to make you more sociable and outgoing. As long as the drink is made from the root and not the entire Kava plant, then the liver and kidney aren’t harmed. Thank you, plant, for no side effects. Kava Kava has been common in the Polynesian culture for centuries, so I guess we are sooo 2000 and late on this one.

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