App-ily ever after - The City Weekly - April
2011
Wondering where to head for after-work drinks on Friday? With
the Happiest Hour app, your phone's GPS will find and display all
nearby pubs and bars, a comprehensive list of happy hours and, in
some cases, even photos of the venue's specials board.
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Oh, happy hours - The Sunday Age - March
2011
A gool old-fashioned happy hour (or hours, in many cases) isn't
hard to find in Melbourne, but where are the great places that
serve great food too? To help with your next after-work gathering,
we've found some palces that tick the food and drink boxes -
because keenping yourself nice still applies.
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Best iPhone apps for uni students - CNet - February
2011
Now this one will come in handy for sure. Using your phone's
GPS, it will search for nearby pubs and bars and allow you to
search for happy hours for either beer, wine, cocktails or food so
that you can have the cheapest night out available.
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A Bar Lovers Guide - Tourism Victoria - December
2010
Drinking in Melbourne need not cost the earth with the city's
bar culture offering a fantastic range of happy hour options. Often
these offers remain a secret to visitors as they are usually
unadvertised, known only to locals who frequent the bar - but not
anymore.
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Forbidden Fruit, fortuitios find? - HeraldSun - October
2008
MONEY doesn't grow on trees, but in these tight times, someone
is trying to ease the squeeze.
The Happiest Hour is a website obsessed with finding Melbourne's
cheapest drinks.
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VB loses public strength too - HeraldSun - July
2007
Chris Canty, who runs the cheap beer website, thehappiesthour,
got angry feedback too.
He says the grim news caused his Talking Boonie to swear and
storm out of the lounge.
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Dr Booze - MX - August 2006
And if your idea of heaven is to know which watering hole is
holding a happy hour at any given time, then let your fingers do
the hard work
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Siteseeing - Sunday HeraldSun - May 2006
MOST Aussies enjoy travel and love a beer-here is a kind of beer
heaven for those who want to know where the happy hours are
happening in Australia's capital cities.
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TheHappiestHour - Talk Magazine - May 2006
talk magazine talks to Chris Canty, creator and quality control
officer of www.thehappiesthour.com, a site that has achieved cult
status by listing the cheapest drink prices around Australia.
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Happy Hour's Back - HeraldSun - August 2004
FOR Melbourne mates Chris Canty and Tom Redmond, happiness comes
in many forms. Mostly, however, it comes in pots, schooners, pints
and jugs.
For them, beauty is not so much in the eye of the beholder as the
beerholder - and the bar can't be set low enough for their
liking.
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