Our Valentines day event is all wrapped up in a bow now and its time to start giving out some serious pub prizes and bring this party into full swing. First we have a new permanent change to the game... Raffle prizes from this day forward are doubled! So the prize increases by $100 brew bucks for each player (with a raffle ticket) in the pub. As before the overall prize has a cap that can be overridden with large numbers of tickets. So while the raffle is usually capped at $500, if all the players in the pub together have more than 100 tickets then the raffle prize could climb up to the maximum $1000 brew bucks. The raffle occurs five times per day so its a great opportunity to win extra cash.

Another new permanent feature for the game is that the pub raffle now features multiple prizes! Instead of only one big award, the raffle includes smaller giveaways which might include brewing ingredients and smaller cash prizes. The likelyhood and size of smaller raffle prizes goes up as the number of eligible players in the pub increases. And like the main reward these smaller prizes are given at random times throughout the happy hour period and can occur either before or after the main prize is given away. Unlike the main prize, the small raffle prizes do not use up or clear any raffle tickets... you can win as many raffle prizes as you like until the end of the happy hour. The big prize will still be awarded once each Happy Hour and is now referred to as the raffle grand prize.

I also want to give a special thanks to Scartron for providing suggestions AND graphics for some new cartoons. Twelve new cartoons are now part of the collections that you can get when you pick up a remote control in the pub.

Although the Valentines' event is over the award for meeting your Valentine in the pub is not going away. No, in fact now when you come to the game tab you will get a new BFF instead of a Valentine. But even better you will also be provided a featured collection item from each of the major collection groups, ie cartoons, sports teams, celebs, and cars. You instantly win $500 brew bucks when you uncover one of your collectibles. These are updated each time you load the game page and are unique to you.

In addition to the usual pub pretzels you will also find occasional candy kisses for the event. These candies act just like a pretzel in helping you drink faster except for one very important difference. Whoever collects the most of them at the end of the event will win a $5000 brew money prize. As in past events Clyde (our beertender) will magically change some of the pub coins into brew money after you pick them up... up to $100 brew bucks!

To celebrate the new DOUBLE purple heart (DPH) the player who accumulates the most DPHs for the duration of the anniversary event will win a $5000 brew money prize.

Last but not least Clyde will distribute periodic prizes to all active (not afk) players in the pub. This means that you get rewarded for just hanging out in the pub. Clyde gets a kick out of giving stuff away and this event is no exception. In fact more than twice the usual number of prizes will be handed out just for being here. Of course we would both be obliged if you drank a lot of beer to help us reach that 1 million mark!

The previously announced stuff is still active too! Every Monday morning I will review and publish the highest beer drinkers for the previous week. The top ten beer drinkers will each get $1000 brew bucks. At the end of the anniversary event the top ten beer drinkers will each receive $5000 brew bucks. The #1 beer drinker for the event will also receive a free TBG t-shirt or 3 free label credits (your choice). The player who drinks the 1 million'th beer and the player who brewed that beer will also receive their choice of a free TBG t-shirt or 3 free label credits. Also remember the free keggers and half price beer during keggers with the chance to get a cash payment if you preannounce it. Party on!

Soon... very soon... Brew beer... Drink beer... Play! What else do you need to know?

-Robc