Happy Monday, folks! Welcome to the debut of our first regular online feature here at Drink Me Magazine. At Booze In The News, you’ll find the latest, funniest and most obscure newsworthy, alcohol-related bits all in one place. Check back weekly to kick off your Mondays right, and don’t forget to send in any good tips to tips@drinkmemag.com! We are here to inform – Enjoy!

One of Australia’s greatest motorsports events saw an increased police presence and new limits on daily alcohol consumption, BBC News reports. The crackdown, meant to curb alcohol-related violence amongst the crowd at Bathurst 1000, limited spectators to either 24 cans of beer per day or 4 litres of wine maximum. We’re pretty hardcore, but if we tried to drink 24 cans of beer in one day, we’d probably die.

Over at The Pegu Blog, we stumbled upon this random fact: Kahlua sold in Ohio contains 21.5% alcohol. In every other state, Kahlua contains only 20%. Using math, one state (2% of the fifty) is 1.5% luckier. Why the exclusive change? Ohio only has two categories for alcoholic beverages. State-run liquor stores only sell beverages that contain over 20% alcohol (classified as spirits), while grocery stores sell beverages with less than 20% alcohol (classified as beer/wine). In order for Kahlua to sit on the same shelves as their competitors, their alcohol content had to rise. I just don’t see why they didn’t up it to 20.000000000001%.

AP reported that Lance Armstrong, seven-time Tour de France champion, has signed a three-year deal to become the spokesman for Michelob Ultra, an Anheuser-Busch branded beer. No word yet on whether or not the advertisements will feature him drinking a beer or riding a bike. Or both. At the same time. With no hands. On the bike or the beer.

This just in! Fancy scientists use high-resolution mass spectrometry as an excuse to huff champagne in a study. Their conclusion? When the tiny bubbles pop under the drinker’s nose, the molecules parade themselves right into your sense of smell at a higher concentration than the delicious drink itself. They then went on and on comparing sparkling wines to sea bulk, atmosphere and marine aerosols, an obvious indication that they’d had a little too much bubbly. Tsk!