Happy St. Patrick's Day
Everything you need and don't need for your bar conversations this weekend
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Food and Drink
A collection of 574 issues
More Bud Lite Fun, but Not Nearly Enough
Bud Light Missed Out on the Super Bowl Party
I don't deny that the boycott has hurt, but that swill is still the second most popular brand out there. We have way too many trannies and pinko-trannies in this country.
Kid Rock even pulled back on the boycott
A Few Great Charles Bukowski Quotes
His headstone features a graphic of a boxer and the Zen-inspired epitaph “Don’t try.”
Rare Figs + a Strain of Yeast from 850 B.C. = Ancient Egypt Beer
The idea came to Dylan McDonnell early in the pandemic, when a sourdough-baking craze took over a nation under lockdown. Mr. McDonnell, an amateur brewer who lives outside Salt Lake City, saw Seamus Blackley, a video game designer, boasting on social media about baking bread with 4,500-year-old Egyptian yeast.
Blow Back Beer to the Vanishing Sommelier
This Video is Pretty Wild
Brewer blown backwards by beer blast (video)An employee of Back Channel Brewing Company in Spring Park, Minnesota, was standing in front of a large vat when it blew him backwards.Boing BoingDavid Pescovitz
The Sommelier is Vanishing
Wine is still poured at many tables.
French Beer Rises
Kathleen Willcox at The Spectator
Austria Loves Its Schnapps. Plus: Wine Trends 2024
Brews You Can Use
BYCU: Drinking Literature: The Good, the Bad, and the Tripe
This is a Lovely Drinking Piece from the Spectator
An ode to localism, in its way
It used to have a snug: a partitioned room where ladies could drink in privacy. Those days are gone, now; it’s been closed off. The ornately carved bar and buttoned leather bench seats
BYCU
Priming your pump in this damp January
Give Me Nothingness or Give Me Nothing at All
Last Friday evening, I was supposed to meet friends at the Hillcrest Lounge shortly after 5:00.
I got there at 5:10 and ordered a drink. The others were delayed, so I sat there for over twenty minutes, looking out the window. Other than Ted Nugent on the jukebox,