Modern Drunkard Magazine

“Seven shots in five minutes. That was my breakfast, lunch and dinner.” The Usual: Natural Light and mini-charges (Red Bull and Jagermeister). You get drunk and...

Night falls on San Francisco's bustling North Beach district as tourists, flesh peddlers and hipsters troll the sidewalks beneath an ashen sky. I maneuver past...

In the early 60s Woody Woodbury reigned as the High Priest of Liquor Culture. His headquarters was a famous watering hole in Fort Liquordale (Fort...

“Only winos drink on Sundays.” Offered to partake on the Sabbath, Viddi Golbranson would take offence, although he   put in an appearance at The...

If playing bass for the notorious Unband, penning Gentlemanly Repose, the finest drunk-rock book ever written, and starring in the film We Like to...

Author, musician, actor, filmmaker, counter-culture icon and Tiki Bar designer Boyd Rice reveals what alcohol has taught him. First taste: 1961. I was in kindergarten....

William Wilson was, by his own account and those of others, a degenerate alcoholic. After a quasi-religious epiphany, he “cured” himself and went on to...

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

I’ve always thought of hangovers as alcohol’s vengeful (and quite punctual) older brother. If you picked on his sibling long enough you could expect big...

Ian Stewart is not the type of guy who drinks to forget. But for this British software designer, it only took one night, three shots,...

1.) The One-Ounce Pours You cannot grasp the character of a beer from a one-ounce pour. It's akin to licking a steak. Furthermore, even if...

If you read enough of the historical articles in this publication you   might start getting the idea that women didn’t used to drink. Which...

When you combine a huge sprawling country, an instinctive love of automobiles and an even greater love of booze, it was only natural the...

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...