Modern Drunkard Magazine

At age 13, Charles Bukowski took his first drink. “It was magic,” he would later write. “Why hadn’t someone told me?” It was the beginning of...

As you may have noticed, bourbon is a big deal again. It started less than a decade ago. Obscure brands with weird names like Pappy...

1. If you owe someone money, always pay them back in a bar. Preferably during Happy Hour. 2. Always toast before doing a shot. Whoever...

The title of this article was first slurred into a microphone by Merle Haggard in 1967—but when I wandered into Denver’s Cricket on the...

Comic JT Habersaat confronts the status quo like a true punk rocker: with venom, intelligence, a skewed perspective and a stiff drink in his...

“You’re only as good as the bars they let you drink in.” I don’t remember who muttered those words, or in what dive, or how...

1 What are you drinking these days? Let’s just go with this day. Four mimosas and now have switched to whiskey with a tiny splash...

Hunter Stockton Thompson was a singular sort of creature—this, dear reader, you already knew. Uncompromising in both his work and way of life, he left...

Your hosts: Frank Kelly Rich (Founder & Editor of MDM) and Luke Schmaltz (Senior writer for MDM). Special guest: JT Habersaat, punk rock comedian extraordinaire....

Click for Part One, Part Two or Three. In the flickering candlelight I poured a Guinness from the tap, drank it straight down, poured another,...

Who is the greatest boozer of all time? We've posed that question before. In 2002 we  resurrected 16 of the history's hardest-pounding hoochers and squared them...