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An Excuse To Drink – National Apéritif Day
Posted on May 16, 2013 | No CommentsIt’s the inaugural run of National Apéritif Day! While only “official” in the UK, French apéritif producer Maison Lillet, producers of Lillet Blanc , have set aside May 16th for the celebration... -
An Excuse To Drink – May 9, 1873: “Schwarzer Freitag”, The Panic of 1873
Posted on May 9, 2013 | No CommentsToday marks the 140th anniversary of the 1873 “Schwarzer Freitag” (black friday) crash of the Vienna Stock Exchange, which ushered in a series of other bank failures. This financial crisis became known... -
An Excuse To Drink – Happy Birthday Gregory Pincus, Co-inventor of the Birth Control Pill
Posted on April 9, 2013 | No CommentsToday, we’re celebrating what would have been the 110th birthday of biologist Gregory Goodwin Pincus, whose research led to the first birth control pills. His work in in vitro fertilization and a... -
An Excuse To Drink – February 21: The Romanov Dynasty And The Communist Manifesto
Posted on February 21, 2013 | No CommentsThis is one of those odd times where two moments in history collide in one of those strange “alpha and omega” moments. Here we have the founding of an imperial... -
An Excuse To Drink – January 1788: The “First Fleet” Arrives in Botany Bay
Posted on January 18, 2013 | No CommentsOn this day, 225 years ago, elements of the Great Britain’s “First Fleet” carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrive at Botany Bay. Commanded by Captain Arthur Phillip, the... -
The “A History of Drinking” Half-Assed, Last-Minute 2012 Holiday Shopping Guide
Posted on December 24, 2012 | No CommentsThat’s right, it’s the day/night before Christmas and I’m just getting off my duff to write up the inaugural issue of our holiday shopping guide. Well, that’s just in perfect... -
An Excuse To Drink – Happy Birthday Ada Lovelace!
Posted on December 10, 2012 | No CommentsToday we mark the 197th birthday of Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, writer, mathematician, icon of the nerd, steampunk and computing world. Ada, the only legitimate daughter of the infamous... -
Halloween 2012 Drink Guide
Posted on October 30, 2012 | No CommentsWhether you’re recovering from the effects of “Frankenstorm” Sandy or simply dreading the notion of turbo-charged children hopped up on sugar, our Halloween holiday drink guide is just what the... -
An Excuse To Drink – 60th Anniversary of “Charlotte’s Web”
Posted on October 15, 2012 | No CommentsSalutations! Today marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of Newbery-award-winning children’s classic, Charlotte’s Web. Over the years, this story of the friendship between Wilbur the pig and his... -
An Excuse To Drink – September 07, 1812: 200th Anniversary Of The Battle of Borodino
Posted on September 7, 2012 | No CommentsOn this date in 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the forces of Russian Tsar Alexander I near the village of Borodino. Admittedly, we tweaked the recipe of the cocktail below just...
