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Hardboiled Hooch

Try to picture Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe without free and frequent access to the hard stuff, and your mind’s eye is likely to...

The People’s Republic of Baiju

The world’s best-selling booze is a Chinese spirit called baijiu. Not because people around the world are clamoring to buy it—most non-Chinese who’ve tried it...

Lets Go Get Drunk: Eastern Europe

Foreign travel and booze were made for each other. Why? Because alcohol is perhaps the single most effective means of bringing together people of different...

Tis the Season to Get Falling Down Drunk

Gift Tips Whenever you open a non-liquor gift, loudly proclaim, “Oh, great, how the fuck am I supposed to drink this?” They'll know what to get...

The Decadent Decade

When I mentioned to a stranger that this magazine was about to celebrate its tenth year in publication, he reacted with violent dismay.   “Ten years?”...
Drink Your Way to Health!

Drink Your Way to Health!

Work Out Secrets Revealed So far in this column I’ve taught you some excellent methods, utilizing alcohol, to better yourself physically. Yet I sense that...

True Alcohol Action!

Helmsman of the notorious publishing company Feral House,  Adam Parfrey has been called “America's Most Dangerous Publisher.” Mr. Parfrey would prefer, however, to be...

Lush For Life

If you’re a good boy and wait until you’re 21 to start boozing, and reach the life expectancy of an average American, you’re looking...

Bullfights, Whores and Tequila: An Interview with Avant-Garde Filmmaker Larry Wessel

In a genre crowded with self-styled mavericks and eccentrics, Larry Wessel manages to stand head and shoulders above other documentary filmmakers.   Figuratively and literally. An...

The Invisible King

Rory Stark was expelled from Burton Bartending College one week before graduation. He was expelled for refusing to demonstrate his knowledge of “the new...

Agave Empire: Three Centuries of Drinking in Mexico

Among seasoned drinkers, Mexico has attained something of a Mecca-like status. The country is so big (larger, in fact, than California, Oregon and Washington...

Bar Signs

Let us drink off the same tab like brothers. Because I think I can drink more than you.Insert a drink here. And I’ll stop staring...

Drunkard Rights Watch

Report Violations to: [email protected] MADD Demands Interlocks in All Vehicles WASHINGTON, DC—MADD wants alcohol detection devices in every vehicle in America. After first stating they only...

Columns and Regular Features

Booze-Soaked Fiction

Adventures with Alcohol

All the Pretty Pictures

How To Articles

Drunkards of the Issue

Inebriate Interviews

Clash of the Tightest

The Great Drunks

Historical Hooching