Despite a brief interruption in beer supply, Belgium continues to exist.
- Boston drinks socially and purposefully. [Stuff]
- And, now, in Snuggies™: "Scenesters who complain that Boston’s behind the times have a legitimate point this time. According to snuggiepubcrawls.com, 62 cities held such crawls last year. Even Scranton, Penn., beat us to the (fuzzy) punch." (Bostonist has yet to hear any actual complaints about this.) [Globe]
- Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Cambridge Common is putting all proceeds from draft beer towards supporting "the families of three of our beloved co-workers, who have suffered losses as a result of the January 12th earthquake" in Haiti. [Bostonist]
- How To Drink Great Wine On A Budget: The Infographic. [Mint]
- Stoddard's, which invited a few lucky people in last night, has some handsome taps. [twitpic/drinkboston]
- Derek Brown shares the recipe for his Robert Frost cocktail, premiered at the White House holiday party to advance the sherry agenda. [Atlantic]
- Is agave nectar the high-fructose corn syrup of bartending? [Underhill-Lounge]
- The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau has a strict no-areola policy. [Bevlog]
- Belgium and its neighbors recently survived a two-week Hoegaarden drought. One of Heineken's facilities remains blockaded. [Brookston Beer Bulletin, Times, Wall Street Journal]
- Bostonist made the mistake of picking up the Metro the other day and, after reading this sentence—"Abou-Ganim’s aim in life wasn’t to be a mixologist, but then that term didn’t even exist then"—we rushed to our Oxford English Dictionary. Tony Abou-Ganim must be older than we thought, because the earliest known printing of the word mixologist was in 1856: "Who ever heard of a man's calling the barkeeper a mixologist of tipicular fixins?" It was delightfully pretentious, even then! [Metro]
- The NY Times has published a piece about buying beer in growlers, which is how you know it's been happening for years now. [NY Times]
- Vodka: the spirit of America? [Valet]
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