If stuff starts looking odd around here, it’ll probably be because I’m in the middle of redesigning this site. I want to switch to a three-column layout so that the blogroll and categories are easier to access; I plan to redesign the logo (I just now noticed how much it cribs from the Imbibe logo); [...]

Happy birthday, Imbibe magazine! It’s been a great first year, and here’s a toast to many more. Issue 7 hit my mailbox yesterday, and I must confess that since it arrived the same day as this issue of Esquire, I didn’t open Imbibe first.

(Even my wife saw Halle and said, “Wwwwow!”)

But I closeted my hormones, [...]

For this month’s Mixology Monday, I decided to try something new–the Plum Royale.

I came to this with a melange of inspiration:

Anita’s post on the Rosemary Five got me thinking about pairing fruit and spice in a champagne drink.
A day after I read her post, I had a [...]

Among the many booze blogs in my feed reader is Lauren Clark’s Drink Boston. I’m a real softie for Boston, for reasons too numerous and personal to detail here, so I love reading Lauren’s blog and traveling vicariously through the cocktailian haunts of that fine city.

I especially enjoyed her most recent post, which starts with [...]

So that’s why I’m called Glenfiddich

A MAN named after his father’s favourite whisky has travelled 4,000 miles to see the distillery that makes it.

The American, Nicholas Glenfiddich Lahren, thought to be the only person christened Glenfiddich, made a pilgrimage to the Speyside distillery where the single malt is made.

Hmmmm… How does Sazerac Dietsch sound?