Modern Drunkard Magazine

“It can hardly be a coincidence,” wrote Douglas Adams, “that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, ‘As pretty as an airport.’” Oh,...

Qingdao (pronounced Ching-dao), is located in the northeast Chinese province of Shandong. The city of three million is famous for three things: sailing, meat...

During my sophomore year of college I enrolled in a course entitled Modern Sub-Saharan Africa. Despite the impressive title, the course consisted of one...

From 2002 to 2003, I was a Guinness-tester in Dubai. My official title was Stout Evaluative Engineer (SEE), though after a few hours of SEE-ing...

Nothing goes together quite like alcohol and open water. Maybe it has something to do with the sense of weightlessness. When I was a kid,...

When asked what he liked to drink, which was often, Charles H. Baker could have replied with great authority: "I Drink the World." Which probably...

Maligned, despised, and nearly banned in Scotland. Buckfast Tonic Wine had a rare moment of glory on May 14th, 2016­—the first World Buckfast Day. A...

If you fancy yourself a hard drinker and aren’t following notoriously unrepetent drunkard Colin Deal (@Dear_Booze) on Twitter, then you are needlessly depriving yourself...

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...

 

Click for Part One or Part Two I swung the heavy base of the Johnnie Walker lamp at the head of the onrushing zombie just as...

My first taste of mezcal came on the heels of trying to force down a potent homemade batch of what was essentially botulism mixed...