Oh, la, la, Laphroaig! As a lover of all things Laphroaig, I’m genuinely thrilled to finally be getting around to pouring and exploring their 12 Year Old GTR Exclusive. Their 10 Year Old is an Islay icon, and I can’t wait to find out…
#Laphroaig #Islay #Scotch #Whisky
Cheers!
“One of Asia’s best bars just opened a cocktail omakase bar on the Lower East Side
Leave it up to the chef, er, mixologist.”
www.timeout.com/newyork/news...
I think my favorite part of this suit is where the guy who was suing because Afroman said he fucked his wife said on the witness stand that he did not know for sure that Afroman did not fuck his wife.
400+ rums (a pirate’s paradise).
With Thanos Prunarus at Baba au Rum in Athens, Greece.
“Cognac exports to North America slide 34%
Global exports of Cognac plunged in volume and value by double digits last year after tariffs hindered the category’s two biggest markets.”
www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2026/03/cogn...
“A look back at the days when tequila was the drug smuggled across the Mexico-US border”
mexiconewsdaily.com/news/during-...
“Leftover Booze? This Bar Has a Creative Solution For That.
Oddball’s clever rotating punch is made by literally rolling the dice.”
punchdrink.com/articles/odd...
Two reddish cocktails in vintage rocks glasses labeled SAZERAC ROOSEVELT HOTEL NEW ORLEANS
Happy International Sazerac Day!
Was the Bartholdi Cocktail the original Stinger? "Green Mint" was likely Creme de Menthe, since fresh mint wasn't really referred to as "green".
From the New York Evening Telegram, January 15, 1891. See alt-text, which in the case of 135-year-old newsprint is helpful for all.
Bacchawhoppa had a baby! Baby Bacchawhoppa is cute.
I came to realize that ginger pie was not some old-fashioned recipe fallen out of favor. It was more than that. By offering a slice, Maude extends not only hospitality, but a slyly camouflaged offer of herself and Harold's first hints of escape from his doleful life. With the point of that pie, she wedges open Harold's somber soul and floods it with bracing warmth and sweetness, the distillate of her own fading life's fire and spice. Harold's change is so profound that he picks up a banjo, abandons his mourning suits, turns cartwheels, and declares his intention to marry a woman old enough to be his grandmother. This pie doesn't affect those sorts of change; it's not likely—not likely, mind you—to prompt proposals. Sitting here with a late-night wedge pilfered from the kitchen, though, I can't help but smile. In the end, I don't know what Maude's recipe was, but l've cemented friendships over slices of this rich, ginger-and-rum custard pie. Surely that is the sort of thing she meant to dish up.
Damn. Just catching up to the news that Bud Cort has died. In Hal Ashby’s 1971 film Harold and Maude, Ruth Gordon offered Cort ginger pie. For nearly 30 years, I’ve baked ginger pies inspired by that moment between them.
Recipe link in the replies. But first:
Like certain political offices, there should be a minimum age for editors.
The difference between the Winter Olympics and Summer Olympics is that if I competed at the Summer Olympics I would humiliate myself while if I competed at the Winter Olympics I would die.
“French companies cut down on drinking at work
Abstinence is gaining traction in France, including among employers. The electric utility company EDF banned alcohol consumption on all sites, prompting internal protest.”
www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...
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“French companies cut down on drinking at work
Abstinence is gaining traction in France, including among employers. The electric utility company EDF banned alcohol consumption on all sites, prompting internal protest.”
www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...
Rode the elevator yesterday with a DoorDasher delivering a paper bag of Taco Bell and. Listen. I am devoted to Taco Bell. But it is 20° and the streets are snow walled and you have this man fully risking death so you can reheat a thirty-four-dollar six-dollar crunchwrap in your microwave
Tonight’s #hockeydram is the classic Buffalo Trace bourbon…master blender Drew Mayville will be my guest on the next episode of WhiskyCast!
“Wild West booze: 150-year-old bottle unearthed in historic Utah mining town
The discovery is sparking efforts to potentially revive a historic beer recipe.”
www.scrippsnews.com/life/food-an...
“‘Booze butt’ drinking side effect that might make you turn sober
Many people end up trapped in the toilet after drinking, but not because of nausea”
www.ladbible.com/news
Ontario government urged U.S. distillers to contact their politicians about the need to remove tariffs www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
“‘Frantic’ first days as Atlantic Canada sells off U.S. booze; wine, bourbon dominate”
globalnews.ca/news/1160663...
New Orleans restaurant recs please. As always more fucked up, the better.
The decline of their Canadian market was probably the coup de grace.
“Major Kentucky bourbon maker Jim Beam shuttering distillery for 2026”
www.kentucky.com/news/busines...
This has to be as awful as it sounds —> “Dirty soda started as a Mormon alternative to booze. Now it's everywhere.
How this sugary, creamy concoction went from ‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ to the mainstream.”
www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/fo...
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Most normie Caesar salads are just lettuce Alfredo anyway
