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An Excuse To Drink – Maple Monday: Part 3
Posted on May 20, 2013 | No CommentsOnce again, it’s time for another Maple Monday! This time we’re taking a cue from the pineapple juice in the original recipe “The Maple Collins” and doing a variation on... -
Maple Monday, Part 2 – The “Manitoba Manhattan”
Posted on May 13, 2013 | No CommentsWelcome to our second installment of “Maple Mondays”! Once again, like last week’s Maple Collins, we are featuring a Crown Royal Maple-Finished Whisky cocktail. This time, we are going in... -
International “The Great Gatsby” Drink Guide
Posted on May 12, 2013 | No CommentsThe talk of the town this weekend is the opening of the new Baz Luhrman adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel, and even the cocktail world has “gone Gatsby”!... -
An Excuse To Drink – Maple Monday
Posted on May 6, 2013 | 1 CommentWelcome to the inaugural post of our new Maple Mondays series. Crown Royal sent us a sample of their new Maple-finished variety and we’re going to take it out for a spin... -
An Excuse To Drink – Kentucky Derby 2013 Drink Guide
Posted on May 4, 2013 | No CommentsAnd there off! To a cocktail filled celebration of the 139th running of the first jewel in American horse-racing’s triple crown, The Kentucky Derby. Run every consecutive year since 1875... -
An Excuse To Drink – Hairball Awareness Day
Posted on April 26, 2013 | No CommentsCheck your gag reflexes everyone, because today’s Hair Ball Awareness Day. This rather odd observance came about in 2006 when the Museum of Health and Medicine wanted to draw attention... -
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 3-9: “Dump Your Significant Jerk Week”
Posted on February 5, 2013 | No CommentsValentines Day, in all it’s over-hyped commercialized glory, is almost upon us! If you’re like me, and you’re in the midst of a fantabulous still-new relationship, you’re tripping along like Doctor Who’s... -
Super Bowl XLVII Mega Drink Guide
Posted on February 1, 2013 | No CommentsThe classic American food and drinking holiday is almost upon us, and for once in twelve years, I actually give a shit. The Baltimore Ravens (no, I won’t start chanting... -
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...
