I thought I’d fix up a couple of Prince of Wales cocktails tonight, a fizzy drink for a fizzy evening. I followed Wondrich’s recipe to the letter, using bonded Rittenhouse for the rye. My pineapple was a couple squares of thawed frozen pineapple from Whole Foods. Maybe it’s the pineapple, but…

I don’t get it. This [...]

photo by Jennifer Hess

This was a bitch to find this year, and I finally grabbed a six of it only yesterday.

Back in 2008. Hope everyone has a great Christmas and a happy new year!

If you think Repeal Day, 74 years ago, was the end of the story, think again. Check out this great, exhaustive site by David J. Hanson, a professor of sociology at the State University of New York in Potsdam:

Alcohol: Problems and Solutions

The gist of the site is to explore, even-handedly, the effects of alcohol use [...]

Happy Repeal Day! I’m going to have a couple or three posts today, but I’ll start briefly.

The Times, this morning, continues to trip merrily through the spirits world with a piece on absinthe. The piece, by Pete Wells, opens with a bit of surprise, at least to me–the first American-produced absinthe of the revival. St. [...]

Morgenthaler’s already posted his roundup and Monday isn’t even done yet in his time zone! Hell, it’s not even done in my time zone, and I’m three hours ahead of him!

So since I apparently missed out on this MxMo, I’m just going to skip it and post on Repeal Day instead.