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slumbrewflagraiser — The Monday Hangover: Other drink adventures of note from the weekend. As usual, we begin with Friday night drinky-drinks, which due to a week of horrible, rainy commutes required the immediate ingestion of some liquid medicine, namely a shot of whiskey and a beer. When the Lady Friend arrived, it […]

The Monday Hangover: Nov 19-20

22 Nov, 2011 in Boston / Drink tagged beer / Blatent Brewery / Bully Boy / Bully Boy Distillery / cocktail / Curtis Liquors / lady friend / manhattan / Monday Hangover / Slumbrew / Somerville Brewing Company / stout / Union Brewhouse by squirrelfarts

rule37eastindia — Modern Drunkard Magazine’s articleThe 86 Rules of Boozing, by Frank Kelly Rich states: Rule 37. Try one new drink each week. The Rule 37 series of posts chronicle my attempts to accomplish this feat every week. For the recipes of R37s past, click the Htf do I make these drinks? […]

Rule 37: The East India Cocktail

21 Nov, 2011 in Boston / Drink tagged bitters / brandy / cocktail / Dale DeGroff / East India Cocktail / fee brothers / lady friend / rule 37 by squirrelfarts

sfo03_alembicbar — This here is Part Four of the Grand Caliventure of November 2011. For Part 1, make the clicking to here. Not your turn yet, Sissy. But soon. Following our delicious lunch and tasty beers at Magnolia, the Lady Friend and I started heading down Haight Street towards our next destination, […]

Soused in SanFran – Part 4: SFO D2 Alembic

18 Nov, 2011 in California / Drink tagged Alembic / blood and sand / campari / Carpano Antica / cocktail / cocktail bar / gin / Ke$hia Ho / lady friend / negroni / rye / San Francisco / The Alembic Bar / whiskey by squirrelfarts

sfo02_magnoliamirror — This here is Part Three of the Grand Caliventure of November 2011. For Part 1, make the clicking to here. I’ll try to break these up a bit more for readability and sanity. Mostly my sanity. Also, we’ve just gotten to Friday morning, so Sissy, you’re going to have to […]

Soused in SanFran – Part 3: SFO D2 Magnolia

16 Nov, 2011 in California / Drink tagged ale / beer / Belgian / bitter / brewpub / gruit / IPA / kölsch / lady friend / Magnolia Pub and Brewery / pumpkin / San Francisco by squirrelfarts

beernbacon — The Monday Hangover: Other drink adventures of note from the weekend. Following last weekend’s trip to Cal-ee-for-nee-ah, it was nice to get back into the weekly routine of cocktail night on Friday. There were Rule 37 fufillments, a whiskey sour made with an overripe lemon (yargh… not recommended) and a […]

The Monday Hangover: Nov 12-13

15 Nov, 2011 in Boston / Drink tagged bacon! / beer / cocktail / Engineer / farmhouse ale / Imperial IPA / IPA / irish lad / lady friend / Monday Hangover / porter / red IPA / wifey by squirrelfarts

brewerandpatriot — Well, the Massachusetts Senate and House came to an agreement, and will vote on the “Casino Bill” tomorrow before going on recess until Jan. If they approve it, the next step will be sending it along to Gov. Deval Patrick for approval. However: “The happy hour provision approved in the […]

Happy Hour is Dead

15 Nov, 2011 in Boston / Drink tagged ABCC / happy hour / MA casino bill by squirrelfarts

rule37presidente_truniform — Modern Drunkard Magazine’s articleThe 86 Rules of Boozing, by Frank Kelly Rich states: Rule 37. Try one new drink each week. The Rule 37 series of posts chronicle my attempts to accomplish this feat every week. For the recipes of R37s past, click the Htf do I make these drinks? […]

Rule 37: The (El?) Presidente

14 Nov, 2011 in Boston / Drink tagged Bully Boy / cocktail / Cuba / rule 37 / rum / Theodore Roosevelt by squirrelfarts

sf01_harryslagunitasIPA — This here is Part Two of the Grand Caliventure of November 2011. For Part 1, make the clicking to here. Hold on to your butts, this is going to be a long one. The dawn did done diddly dawned Thursday morning as JJ and her husband scurried about the apartment […]

Soused in SanFran – Part 2: SFO D1

10 Nov, 2011 in California / Drink tagged 21st Amendment Brewery / beer / brewery / brewpub / cocktail / Fresca / IPA / JJ / Ke$hia Ho / lady friend / lager / Lefty O'Doul's / negroni / pale ale / San Francisco / Top of the Mark by squirrelfarts

pregame_deplanedeplane — This here is Part One of the Grand Caliventure of November 2011. The Lady Friend and I had been discussing a trip out to California, for a number of reasons. She has a friend living in San Francisco, and Sissy moved out to some God-forsaken wilderness camp in Sonora, which […]

Soused in SanFran – Part 1: The Pregame

8 Nov, 2011 in California / Drink tagged beer / Boston Beer Works / IPA / JJ / lady friend / San Francisco / Sissy by squirrelfarts

curtis_int02 — The Monday Hangover: Other drink adventures of note from the weekend. Cocktail night started off slow and easy with a soothing Negroni and a home-cooked meal, rather than the usual takeout. Saturday was the real drink adventure, as the Lady Friend and I ventured out into the stormy wet afternoon […]

The Monday Hangover: Oct 29-30

2 Nov, 2011 in Boston / Drink tagged beer / Curtis Liquors / irish lad / lady friend / Monday Hangover by squirrelfarts

turtlefez — A couple months ago, I was in a meeting at work to view some upcoming TV pilots. One of the network sales women said something (I’m still not sure what it was) and caused our media manager to immediately turn to her and demand “Are you a TURTLE??” “Uh… no…?” […]

Are YOU a Turtle?

26 Oct, 2011 in Drink / History tagged Ancient and Honorable Order of Turtles / Ancient Order of Turtles / Are you a turtle / Captain Hugh McGowan / Denis McGowan / drinking club / Hugh McGowan / Hugh P. McGowan / irish lad / lady friend / RUA Turtle / turtle / turtle club / wifey / YBYSAIA by squirrelfarts

mon_muffintop — The Monday Hangover: Other drink adventures of note from the weekend. Naturally, the weekend started with a trip to Curtis Liquors for some beer browsing. I had recently heard of Backlash Beer Company, and happened to see their two brews, Convergence and Groundswell on the shelves. Of course, they wound […]

The Monday Hangover: Oct 22-23

24 Oct, 2011 in Boston / Drink tagged Backlash Beer Company / beer / Belgian tripel IPA / black lager / Clown Shoes / Harpoon / IPA / lager / Monday Hangover / rauchbier / Samuel Adams / Trinity Brewhouse by squirrelfarts