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I’ll be drinking my way back to Beer Camp With a burn-ing love insiiiiiiide So Beer Camp is a thing. Specifically a nation-wide invite to all craft brewers to join a seven-city tour of brewfests put on by Sierra Nevada. Guess where the New England stop is? No, really, guess. […]

Drinking My Way Back to Beer Camp

 in Portland  tagged Allagash / Asheville Brewers Alliance / Ballast Point / beer / Beer Camp / Beer Camp Tour / Bell's Brewery / Cigar City / Firestone Walker / New Glarus / Ninkasi Brewing Company / Oskar Blues / review / Russian River / Sierra Nevada / Victory Brewing by
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Rum-ble? So I got a bunch of new, somewhat local, rums recently from a variety of sources. Some gifts, some smuggling requests, some I just plain bought. So I’m going to line them up and try them side by side. Sounds like a fun afternoon for me. All of these […]

Rum-Off!

 in Drink / Portland  tagged aged rum / Bully Boy / Bully Boy Boston Rum / GrandTen Distilling / Medford Rum / pot still / review / rum / Sea Hagg Distillery / Sea Hagg silver rum / single barrel / Thomas Tew by
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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: Merrymeeting Stump Puller

 in Drink / New Hampshire  tagged Canadian Club Reserve / Canadian whisky / Dr. McGillicuddy's / lady friend / Mentholmint / Merrymeeting Lake / Merrymeeting Stump Puller / Montana Stump Puller / Mr Boston / rule 37 / whiskey by
Warning: rant ahead. After moving to Portland about a year ago from Braintree, MA, I breathed a sigh of freedom after living under some of Masachusetts’s draconian liquor laws. There are drink specials here! Happy hour! Granted, the selection at my local “packies” isn’t quite what I could get in […]

Wake Up, Maine

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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: Painkiller

 in Drink / Portland  tagged cocktail / Craft of the Cocktail / Dale DeGroff / navy rum / Painkiller / Pusser's / rule 37 / rum / Sailor Jerry / The Essential Cocktail by
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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: Nolita

 in Drink / Portland  tagged campari / cocktail / coffee liqueur / gin / Kahlua / Kindred Cocktails / negroni / Nolita / rule 37 / San Diego Food Finds / sweet vermouth / Wire Works Gin by
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YES. The first of the Bully Boy aged spirits. FINALLY. Now I get to take you to whiskey school. You might learn something. Plus, how awesome does “whiskey school” sound? Bully! So. Bully Boy’s American Straight Whiskey. It’s a small-batch craft whiskey coming out of Boston by (very tall) distillers […]

Review: Bully Boy American Straight Whiskey

 in Boston / Drink  tagged American Straight Whiskey / Bully Boy / Bully Boy Distillery / manhattan / review / the blue room / whiskey by