Happy Thanksgiving
We’re thankful for our readership, which has grown 100% in the last month alone. You folks are why we’re writing. Thank you. I’d like to thank Melba for her awesome posts and finding stuff all over the web for us…
Cranberry Margarita
The simplicity of something like the Margarita or Daiquiri allows mixologists great leeway in experimenting. And as Melba pointed out a couple of days ago, the bounty of ingredients available around this time of year lend themselves to novel cocktails.…
Anchor Brewing Christmas Ale
All the way across the country, in San Francisco, one of the first microbreweries, Anchor Brewing Co., bottles the most legendary craft beers. Anyone who has spent any time drinking with me knows of Old Foghorn, a seasonally brewed barleywine…
LiV Vodka
Just at the very beginning of Long Island’s North Fork is a town called Baiting Hollow. Like many towns on the North Fork, Baiting Hollow is charming, rustic, and full of wineries, including the not-so-surprisingly-named Baiting Hollow Farm Winery. I’ve…
Taste Test: Octoberfest beers
Our first official taste test! Fervere and two guests try six different Octoberfest-style beers. What makes
Beer oiled the wheels of civilization
Mrs. Ferment emailed me an article on MSNBC about researchers pretty much determining that the rise of agriculture and the resulting culture-shift to an agrarian society wasn’t so much about growing grains for food as it was growing grains for…