RAGBRAI Recap: The Legacy
[ continued from yesterday ] █████ loves my Manhattans. I make them in the proper, original fashion, with rye and not bourbon. I always keep a bottle of Templeton rye on hand (though Bulleit rye is a fine choice...
AlcoholA collection of 28 posts
Smoke
I make it my general practice not to drink and write. At least, I try not to drink when writing...
And a brine chaser, please
While █████ and I were in New York City about a month ago, we were introduced to a drink called the "pickle back"—a shot of Irish whiskey followed by a pickle-brine chaser. Yes, I...
Drinks by the dram by any other name...
According to Whisky Connosr: "Some ideas are so brilliantly simple you wonder why no-one has thought of them before." Now, I love me some gimmicky new ways to quaff my favorite hoity-toity single-malt scotches,...
The bad art drinking game
Yesterday █████ and I met her parents in Lake Forest to wander around the Deer Path Art League's 56th Annual Art Fair on the Square. This is one of those affairs where artists and artisans...
Happy days in Manhattan, or one at least
My scotch-loving friends in New York will want to hear about an email I just received from the Brandy Library. (Yes, I can't bring myself to unsubscribe from their mailing list.) The 16th Annual...