Modern Drunkard Magazine

I've never really been “into” Scotch. Scotch tends to make people make snooty noises, makes them swirl their drink and discuss the “bouquet of flavors,”...

Gary Travis picked up his pace. The wind was up and a fast chill was sweeping into the night. He would be early for...

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...

Before his untimely death, Bill “The Fox” Foster presided over Comedy Central’s notorious “The Man Show” as its mascot and inspiration. A grinning, wrinkled man...

MDM's Editor Frank Kelly Rich takes a crack at the AA questionnaire. 1.) Have you ever decided to stop drinking for a week or so,...

I clamber to my feet and stretch. Not in a “rise and shine” kind of way, but more of a “did I sleep in a...

Forget mom. Forget apple pie. The game of baseball is the single most recognizable symbol of our national heritage and character. For well over a...

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...

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

Lawyers and drinking have held hands since the early history of the nation and that tradition continues with my friend and colleague, a lawyer...

Long thought the figment of sailors’ over-active imaginations, recent studies have proven the existence of savvy primates who know how to make fermented brew...

Few subjects have inspired artists like intoxication. Some works celebrate sozzlers, propping us on a dais for a little while, displayed at our hiccupy...

“There are no gentlemen in Denver,” my mentor Giles Humbert III said, “thus there are no gentlemen’s clubs.” “Sure there are,” I said. “The phone book...

Kingsley Amis did not care what people thought of his drinking. He was a grand old man of English letters, a comic master, recipient of...