Results tagged “booze”

• 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]

                                          

We sipped Painkillers (active ingredient: Pusser's Rum) and double-fisted Ken-Tikis, and admired fezzes.

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."

   

On May 17, 2004, marriage licenses were granted to same-sex couples in Massachusetts for the first time. Though a few johnny-come-latelys have followed suit, civilization has yet to collapse (global financial crises notwithstanding). Bostonist would like to propose a toast. Or several.

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.

You loved the parade; now it's time for green beer. Where are the best spots to spend your Tuesday night—or morning, if you won't be at the office? A few ideas, below and after the jump.

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In 1918, William Jennings Bryan predicted that "ten years from now, hundreds of thousands of men who voted against us and struggled to keep the saloon, will go down on their knees and thank God they were overwhelmed at the ballot-box and this temptation far removed from them."

Friday, November 21, 7-11 pm, $45

This is the weekend of "The Game," which guarantees that the bars of Cambridge will be clogged with "Teh Douche." Bostonist is researching the thematically-correct home-drinking alternatives:

       

This Bostonist owns many a compact, black and white volume of cocktail recipes, with small type and bare diagrams. Mixologist, booze consultant, and Museum of the American Cocktail founder Dale DeGroff's new book is, by contrast, a large, typographically lush (and generally lush) book of cocktail recipes with near-pornographic photography of perfect drinks, shivering in their garnishes. The Essential Cocktail is lovely, and, if we learned anything from its launch party at Drink on Monday night, you should take its commands seriously, including its injunction to flame those orange peels.

LUPEC Boston, the local chapter of that august sisterhood Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails, celebrates the second edition of their Little Black Book of Cocktails tonight at Grand. (Further details here—there will be punch!) The book features Matt Demers's photography, which makes Boston's most attractive bartenders and cocktail enthusiasts look like Louise Brooks, pearls and all. The book's proceeds will benefit the New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans’ Women’s Unit.

So, you didn't listen to your momma, and you didn't drink water or eat nibbles as you poured booze down your gullet. Or, more appropriately, Bostonist didn't drink water or eat nibbles--an eagle-eyed commenter caught us boozing early. So here are three lists of hangover remedies that you might be able to use right about now: