What sort of mixed beverage could serve as a metaphor for the current state of the union?
"Oregon pinot noir and Four Loko, about one part of the former and four of the latter."
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Today is National Punch Day. Bostonist isn't sure why or by whose decree, but we're told that it'll be properly observed at Green Street in Central Square, Cambridge. The Punch Party starts at 9 pm this evening, with $4 glasses of punch containing Bols Genever.
Tonight at the Franklin Southie, you're invited to show your support for the Nineteenth Amendment (and your implicit disdain for the Eighteenth) with delicious & affordable cocktails featuring Bols Genever and St-Germain elderflower liqueur. Never mind that prohibition and women's suffrage went hand-in-hand: Ladies United For The Preservation of Endangered Cocktails is doing their best to make up for that. [Facebook]
Five of Boston's ascendent bartenders shook, stirred, muddled, ignited, danced, and sang their cocktails.
Holla from New Orleans in the midst of Tales of the Cocktail spirits festival! Just to mix things up (no pun intended, I swear), here's some food pr0n to offset all that liquidishness. Let's fling the baby into the swimming pool and let the kurobuta BLT at Cochon Butcher do the honors.
A ferocious first day of seminars, tastings and a cow bell or two. It's a three-hundred-ring circus in New Orleans for Tales of the Cocktail. fueled by a near-comprehensive diet of adrenaline, camaraderie and whichever delightful rum punch is within earshot. Plus, the Boston crew? Unstoppable.
In a torrid haze of summer heat, po' boys up to here and true exhilaration of a spirits industry reunion, Tales of the Cocktail is officially in full swing.
I must grapple with the formidable truth. In less than 48 hours, I will be bleary-eyed and strapped into a plane, heading straight into the luscious maw of New Orleans' gincredible cocktail orgy--otherwise known as Tales of the Cocktail. An international frenzy of bartenders, mixologists, historians, authors, chefs, brand ambassadors and those who find vintage punchbowls absolutely irresistible will descend upon the French Quarter for the 8th year in a row, with vests and ice bags and painstakingly perfected homemade bitters. As ToTC spins it, "Each year offers a spirited series of dinners, demos, tastings, competitions, seminars, book signings, tours and parties all perfectly paired with some of the best cocktails ever made."
Somerville's Downtown Wine & Spirits wants to encourage their customers' exhibitionist tendencies, and sell brown paper bags containing a variety of liquors in tiny bottles.
About a year after the Brattle went boozy, the Coolidge Corner Theatre will follow suit. The Brookline theatre will start serving beer (possibly Harpoon) and wine this summer. We're pleased about having the option to imbibe in yet another local theatre (thanks to the Somerville Theatre for consistently providing beer, if consistently closing the beer stand way early and never providing more than one beer per person), but we are sad that nobody will be bringing beer right to our seats like they do at the Alamo. And in other film-ish news, the Independent Film Festival Boston opened today at the Somerville Theatre. [Globe]
Beer is good for you. Soft drinks will kill you. We've been saying this all along, but now it's been translated into British: "Topflight boffins have discovered that the swilling of pop is a fantastically unhealthy thing to do." So, "quaff a tankard of ale instead."
- A report by Attorney General Martha Coakley's office states that about 10 Bay State hospitals get significantly higher payments from Massachusetts insurance companies for similar work. Hospitals that treat lots of poor patients are as paid up to 25% less than average by commercial insurers. Rising health care costs in Massachusetts are the result of rising prices not the amount of procedures. [Boston Globe]
- Bostonist knows it's January. But, it is really friggin' cold outside. [Boston Globe]
- The Obama administration is considering moving the 9/11 terrorist trials outside of New York City due to growing opposition. [AP via Yahoo!News]
Carl Sutton and his formidable moustache are in town to help you taste the freshest vermouth you can get without chamomile-infusing it yourself.
But was it a booze sandwich? Cops broke up a New Year's Eve party in Sandwich before midnight rolled around, rounding up several young folks who were illegally imbibing the booze, not to mention making too much noise. It's a bummer not to make it to the new year, but that's what an underage sandwich can do to a party. Via the Herald.
Rachel Maddow on political cocktails, and Josey Packard on the Rachel Maddow Show.
“And remember, martinis do not contain vodka.”
Holiday libations and gifts for your favorite drunkards.
There is bar so secret that we found out about it through its Facebook page.
- Rachel Maddow and Bostonist have a thing in common: “I go to Drink and I drink.” [Herald]
- The FDA is cracking down on caffeinated booze. Bostonist does not mourn the demise of Sparks, but we hope the feds keep their hands off our Cuba libres and coffee flips. [Brookston Beer Bulletin]
- Some bar called Lord Hobo opened. [Bostonist]
When life gives you beer cartons, make beer carton libraries.
Bostonist had heard all sorts of things blamed for the shortage of this cocktail staple: bottling mishaps, distribution issues, politics, and, shaking a fist in the direction of Brooklyn, the recent fad of formulating beverages that contain whole ounces of bitters per serving.
The Archdiocese of Boston urges Catholics to hold off on the consecrated wine, lest they catch transubstantiated swine flu.
We were already wary of the suffix -tini, and now it's been combined with Twitter.
Have you ever mistaken a sommelier for a pro wrestler?
Legal Sea Foods, the Boston-based chain restaurant, never gets much love in the snobby circles of Boston's food cognoscenti, so this might come as terrible news to them. Patrick Sullivan, the mastermind behind the B-Side Lounge and one of the prime movers behind Boston's classic cocktail revival, has been hired to oversee Legal's cocktail menu. He's starting at the new Legal Harborside, but we hope that his cocktail menu will filter down to Legal's Test Kitchen, our favorite guilty pleasure during the inevitable flight delays at Logan Airport. [Grub Street]
We already mentioned the impending alcohol tax increase that will make drinking even more difficult. Now occasional Bostonist contributor Dale Cruse of Drinks Are On Me raises another booze-related issue: big box liquor stores. As though Bin Ends didn't already offer enough sinful selection, Wine Nation proposes converting a former Linens N Things ('member them?) in Braintree into what amounts to a Liquors N Things. Now, we're all for saving a little money on our liquor—especially if it's being taxed on top of regular prices—but do we have to do it at a traffic-jam-causin' Maryland-based business? Some folks are opposed enough to set up a website against the addition. What say you, liquor lovers seeking savings?
Last night, the mixologists at Drink (348 Congress St., in Fort Point) composed an ode to the late Michael Jackson in the form of a punch. Lemon Hart 151, Batavia arrack, Coke (they didn't have Pepsi on hand, John Gertsen told us), lime, and sugar* were combined and set on fire to make the Jackson 5. The name of the beverage played on the etymology of the word "punch," allegedly the half-English bastard of the Hindi word for "five."
Only 348 bottles of The Last Drop's 1960 Blended Scotch Whisky were imported to the United States, and Bostonist recently had the pleasure of tasting a few stray drops. The "1960" refers to the youngest of the whiskies in an extremely (and deliberately) rare bottling that James Espey described as "pre-bling, non-bling."
A hundred of North America's finest bartenders spent a weekend on top of a mountain with all the 'gnac-based liqueur they could drink, and Misty has lived to tell the tale.