- The Eighteenth Amendment—Prohibition—closed saloons, planted vineyards, and built a floating city of rum-runners off Cape Cod. [Edible Geography]
- Tonight at the Franklin Southie, you're invited to show your support for the Nineteenth Amendment (and your implicit disdain for the Eighteenth) by consuming delicious & affordable cocktails featuring Bols Genever and St-Germain elderflower liqueur. Never mind that women's suffrage and prohibition went hand-in-hand: Ladies United For The Preservation of Endangered Cocktails is doing their best to make up for that. (Gentlemen welcome. Jello shots available.) [Facebook]
- At Craigie On Main, you'll imbibe whole years (1771 and 1794 are tasty ones) and be converted to bone marrow eating. [Nightcapped]
- "You can make a drink with anything?" (Is New York catching up with Boston this time?) [NY Times]
- "Chartreuse, housemade vermouth, and the Red Sox." (Fuck yeah Boston!) [Food & Wine: Tasting Room]
- Samuel Johnson has some advice for bartenders. [Drinkboston]
- Zero-martini lunches can be improved by a few dashes of Peychaud's. [The Kitchn]
- Mary Edes of Coppa and Emily Stanley of pretty-much-every-bar-we've-ever-liked will wage Cocktail Wars at the Woodward this Sunday, competing Iron Chef-style to concoct drinks on the spot. Josh Childs of Silvertone and Trina's Starlite Lounge will be among the judges. [Beantown Bloggery]
- Do you drink on planes? Do you want to help your fellow drinkers-on-planes? Take a photo of the in-flight booze menu. [Alcademics]
- Beer microbes in space! [BBC]
- Hungover owls! [Hungover Owls]
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