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Category Archives: LIQUOR
Rum, 2011: Yo Ho Ho And a Bottle of Matusalem Gran Reserve
Grog no more: Rum—like most spirits—has gone twenty-first century chichi. Once the lowbrow libation of slaves and sailors, rebels and ‘Ricans, louches and lushes, rum’s current cache can be certified in downtown Panache-ville with the opening of yet another tiki … Continue reading
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No. 209: Kosher Gin For New Years Eve, 5772
How can you pass over a gin made for Passover? Or the Jewish New Year, Rosh HaShana (September 29-30, 2011)? True or False: When Rick Blaine said, “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, … Continue reading
2011 San Francisco World Spirits Competition: The Best Booze in the Biosphere?
First, you mint a coin in honor of ‘Dirty Jobs’—that enchanting cable TV show that finds host Mike Rowe up to his neck in manure, leeches, cucarachas or bull semen in the Discovery Channel equivalent of a ‘Stay in School, … Continue reading
Tequila: Romancing the Stoned
Judging from recent media barrages, hired guns from the spirit world are revving up another campaign to raise tequila’s stature to that of malt scotch and XO cognac. Buena suerte, compadres. Isn’t cognac about dapper bec fins puffing Cohibas over … Continue reading
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Bourbon: Born in the U.S.A.
Lincoln’s father made it for a living. Ulysses Grant gulped it in the oval office. Does George Thorogood, that red-blooded all-American ax-man, drink alone? Naw, he sits with his buddies Jack Daniels and Jim Beam. Slug one for ol’ Glory: … Continue reading
Calvados: The Apple of My High
Wherever mankind blazed his imperialist trail, booze soon followed. Using whatever was fermentable, findable or farmable, liquor has been distilled by thirsty barbarians since the 2nd millennium B.C., taking any guise that propriety demanded: medicine, holy elixir, even fuel. But … Continue reading
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Flavored Vodka: Commie Cocktails Come of Age
Flavored vodkas are the beverage industry’s trendiest tsunami, right? The hottest thing to hit the bar scene in years? The creation of market-savvy distillers looking for a specific niche—a tipple that ‘defines’ what it means to be young, hip and … Continue reading
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Why Bomb Iraq When You Can Get Bombed on Arak?
There’s aragh, the sound you make when you skin your knee, and there’s ouzo, which is what drips from your infected skinned knee when you fail to treat it. Both are also the names of some distant cousins of arak—a … Continue reading
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Absinthe Makes The Heart Grow Fonder
When it comes to free-associating the term ‘barely legal’, there are two kinds of people in the world: those who imagine Miley Cyrus’s eighteen birthday party and those who think about absinthe. Long the realm of bohemian pre-rock rock stars—men … Continue reading
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