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…
Samuel Adams bottle-opening keyring
A trip to my local Superstar where I found the Winter Classics pack with Chocolate Bock also yielded another sweet surprise. Sam Adams is giving away bottle-openers, and as much as I like my church key, I like having a…
The Old Fashioned preview
What’s in an Old Fashioned? Are Old Fashioneds suffering from new-fangled-ness? Fervere wants answers.
Privacy Policy update
Our privacy policy has been tweaked to clarify that our analytics program collects data that allows us to see general trends as far a geography and where you found us. That data, in aggregate, may be shared with third-parties, but…
Martini & Rossi Ad from 1959
It’s advertising like this that would get me to buy sweet vermouth, which is limited as a mixer to Rob Roys and Manhattans. This scene, by the way, very closely resembles any randomly-picked night at DnU HQ, except that my…
$150,000 Whiskey. Credit card anyone?
First, let me thank Fervere for letting me out of the closet and the walls to be an official blog poster. When he suggested this, my initial response was “you’re gonna edit my posts right?” I have a tendency to…