#FridayFive: Gin June 9th, 2017 @ 6:46 am PDT
In which I list my favorite gin
Goodbye, Trader Vic’s February 10th, 2017 @ 5:22 pm PDT
The end of an era
Death in the Gulf Stream January 27th, 2017 @ 7:00 am PDT
Hemingway describes it as a cocktail to be enjoyed from 11:00am on.
Hemingway on Alcohol January 20th, 2017 @ 9:33 am PDT
On Hangovers January 1st, 2017 @ 6:32 am PDT
A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death. Robert Charles Benchley
Death in the Afternoon July 10th, 2016 @ 7:53 am PDT
How to Make a Death in the Afternoon, Hemingway’s Favorite Aperitif
On Reincarnation … January 29th, 2016 @ 7:07 am PDT
If I had to live life over, I’d live over a saloon. W.C. Fields
On Beer July 24th, 2014 @ 6:11 am PDT
“Cold beer is bottled God.” Dylan Thomas
#FridayFive: Gin Drinks April 4th, 2014 @ 4:04 am PDT
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Prohibition! January 17th, 2014 @ 5:36 am PDT
It’s the 94th birthday of Prohibition! The Eighteenth Amendment, the Volstead Act, took effect on this date in 1920, a year after it was ratified. Congress passed the Act even though President Woodrow Wilson had vetoed it. It made the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor illegal. It took almost 14 years before the 21st […]
