Category Archives: LIQUOR

The World’s 10 Most Expensive Cocktails

Posted on December 26, 2016 by intoxreport

Jiminy Glick’s playful interview with Mel Brooks culminates in the zany lardbucket asking Brooks, ‘So, Mel—what’s your big beef with the Nazis anyway?” Were Glick to interview yours truly, the loveable hog-beast might lead with a similarly wacky and irreverent … Continue reading →

Posted in LIQUOR | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Yo Ho Ho, Diplomático

Posted on September 27, 2016 by intoxreport

Ever have one of those nifty, treasure-trove moments where you find a cache of cash in some random article of clothing? And isn’t the moment all the more delicious when the discovery happens inside one of your own pockets, not … Continue reading →

Posted in Rum | Tagged | Leave a comment

PB&J’s Ultimate FUBAR: Aske Not, Want Not

Posted on March 17, 2016 by intoxreport

For reasons to be revealed later (or not), Mme KGP has filed the social media equivalent of a restraining order, which probably means she is forbidden from reading my demure disquisitions on the subject of spirits. Whether or not this exile … Continue reading →

Posted in Bourbon, LIQUOR | Tagged , | Leave a comment

The Gindenburg: ‘Oh, The Ginanity’

Posted on July 17, 2015 by intoxreport

It’s six in the morning and shortly, Hendrick’s Gin wants to get me up inside a giant flying pickle.  Technically, it’s a flying cucumber, but technically again,  a pickle is merely a cucumber that feels like I do at 6 … Continue reading →

Posted in Gin, LIQUOR | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Springtime Cocktails à Go-Go!

Posted on April 23, 2015 by intoxreport

When someone from an upscale firm in uptown Manhattan queries you regarding ‘re-creating’ some springtime drink recipes, you know they are not only going to be scenester ‘it’ drinks, but boisterously, excruciatingly, insuppressibly so. So, if you agree (as I … Continue reading →

Posted in LIQUOR | Tagged | 1 Comment

Grand Traverse Distillery: Taking Their Best Shot

Posted on August 26, 2014 by intoxreport

It’s an interesting question in any case: Does appellation play the same role—or any role—in defining a liquor’s quality as it does a wine’s? Or is it purely marketing schtick? I ask because a wine’s regulated place-of-origin is intimately woven … Continue reading →

Posted in LIQUOR, Michigan, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Guy Wicker Is The Heisenberg Of Hootch

Posted on December 10, 2013 by intoxreport

Lissen up, Albuquerque undercover: I found Heisenberg, and he’s not dead.  He’s not Walter White and he’s not even in New Mexico.  He’s in Southfield, Michigan and he’s switched his drug dementias mid-season, from meth to absinthe. And also Chartreuse, … Continue reading →

Posted in Absinthe, GENERAL, LIQUOR | Tagged | Leave a comment

Re: Re:Find: A Re:Markable Find

Posted on November 7, 2013 by intoxreport

(This piece, as well as the last two columns posted, are excerpts from ‘A Rite Of Paso: Paso Robles Wine Country’ to be released December 1, 2013 by Intoxicology Press, LLC.) If Alex Trebek posed the answer, ‘The smartest guy in … Continue reading →

Posted in LIQUOR, Paso Robles, Vodka | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

Papa’s Pilar: Preach, Pater; Preach, Preach…

Posted on August 19, 2013 by intoxreport

‘Yo ho ho and a solera of rum…’ said no pirate ever. Pirates have been given a historical pass in popular culture, at least the old school ones.  They appear as cartoon buffoons like Captain Hook, loveable matinee idols like … Continue reading →

Posted in LIQUOR, Rum | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Absinthe of ‘Alice’

Posted on May 21, 2013 by intoxreport

Bernard Black (proprietor of Black Books) referred to it as ‘the drink that makes you want to kill yourself.’ Oscar Wilde claimed, ‘After the first glass of absinthe you see things as you wish they were…’, by which he may … Continue reading →

Posted in Absinthe | Tagged , , | 4 Comments