We now know something about the recipe for early Scandinavian booze: When a desire for an alcoholic beverage strikes, sometimes the best strategy is to use what you have to make your own. That appears to have been the approach taken by the ancient Scandinavians,...
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Even if we agree that Irish whiskey is not the equivalent of that made in Scotland or Kentucky, it's still usually worth drinking and you are probably consuming more than.
Can this be part of the Obamacare fix?
These drawings of all your varieties of 18th century drunk British women pretty much describes the average Friday night of your typical LGM reader writer. I relate most to the woman in glasses drunkenly smashing her face on a tree. Obviously you need to click...
I just finished re-reading Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio for the first time in many years. While I've been in Mexico, I've reacquainted myself with the literature of the Gilded Age,.
Although I was under the impression that Pennsylvania had the stupidest liquor laws in the country, it turns out that Indiana is pretty competitive as well (although at least you.
It doesn't really surprise me that the big whiskey corporations are doing such a good job of pivoting to the demand for higher quality hooch.* They have the preexisting capital investment, a vested interest in controlling a changing market, and brand identity. Microdistillers have a...
In case you don't already know, today is National Martini Day. I assume you are celebrating appropriately. That not only means that you are drinking a martini, but that the.
Today, I turned 39. In my ripe old age, I'd like to share some advice from the WPA. From 1941: The more you know.
My brother bought me Jason Wilson's Boozehound for Christmas. In the introduction is a 1959 quote from A.J. Liebling that should be good for a few comments here: The standard of perfection for vodka (no color, no taste, no smell) was expounded to me long...
On this date in 1933, the 21st Amendment was ratified, repealing Prohibition, otherwise known as the stupidest law in American history. The state that put the 21st Amendment over the.
You may have seen this study that came out a week or so ago showing that American adults consume almost as many "empty calories" through alcohol as through soda. In.