I remembered today an urban legend — or at least I thought it might be one — that my friend Val told me while we drank tiny, frigid beers at Murph’s in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
She said that she had heard that if one could eat chocolate and drink beer at the same time, it meant [...]

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Now that’s what I’m talking about. From an email list I subscribe to:
You might have seen the signs at several bars and restaurants in Vienna, and the rest of wine producing Austria. In case you are wondering what Sturm actually is, read and learn! We all know that wine is made of grape juice. To [...]

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As mentioned previously on this site, my friend Val is in town for a week or two as part of her ’round-the-world trip. She came here directly from Prague, but was in Budapest before that, and SE Asia before that.
Tonight, we decided to dine at “7 Stern Bräu,”:http://www.7stern.at/ a brewery and restaurant right near [...]

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Ooh! Ooh! Are you a “good witch or a bad witch?”:http://www.strega.it
Strega is a special liquer from Italy. Named “witch,” it plays off of the idea that the town from which the product comes, Benevento, Italy (good wind) used to be named Malevanto, which means “bad wind,” in reference to the towns reputation [...]

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When the papers in “Savannah”:http://www.savannahnow.com/stories/032304/EXC_pabst.shtml report it, you know it’s over. But I say “PBR: long may it live”:http://www.halfass.com/log/archives/001751.php

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I just found out that Pabst Brewing makes almost all of the “bad” beers in this country. Schaefer, Schlitz, Old Mil, Olympia, Pearl, Falstaff, Carling Black Label. I never new Pabst was behind the scheme. Good for them.

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In honor of this weblog’s very own Tikihead leaving the realm of space-age bachelordom, a bunch of us miscreants of the male persuasion are raiding the Florida panhandle as of tomorrow. Our goal: to plunder as much fresh snapper, marlin, tuna or whatever else we can get our grubby hands on to choke a [...]

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Now he has more of his pension to spend on less important items like food, clothing, lodging and medical care:

AFTER 60 YEARS OF PAYING, HE DRINKS FOR FREE
A British retiree has been given free beer for life at his local pub
after spending 60 years as a paying customer. The Red Hart at Three
Holes in Norfolk [...]

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A few things I came away with from our Friday night throwback to Male Pattern Baldness Night;
1. “Nostalgic” drinking experiences, i.e. cheap beer, inevitably leads to bad hangovers and wasted Saturdays.
2. A certain paranoiac we know always makes for hilarious conversation. Those stories seem to hold up for some reason. holy shitakazole.
which leads me [...]

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this feature: The awesome “Gimlet”
The history-seems to date from the Mid-60’s or before
File Under-Tart
What you need:Cocktail Shaker-this is most important and can be had for cheap at Target.Ice-the bag “cocktail” variety is best.Gin-Leyden’s, Tanqueray 10, or Seagrams will do the trickRose’s Lime JuiceA couple limesclub soda
Fill shaker half full of ice, add 1.5 oz [...]

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