Modern Drunkard Magazine

Does a drink cadged from a stranger taste far superior to one earned by the sweat of your brow? Are you immune to the slightest...

It’s Friday night and the bar is crawling with feminine felines of every sort: The slobbering, the smashed, the cackling, the delirious, the insane, the...

Your cocktail says something about you. For instance, ordering a martini says you appreciate the finer things in life, ordering a gin and tonic says...

The holiday season places a heavy burden on our scarce organizational resources. The simple task of evaluating holiday invitations and culling those that do not...

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. —Horace People drink for lots of reasons— escape, relaxation, to catch...

Is absinthe as dangerous as they say, and where can I get some? Dangerous is a relative word. Yes, absinthe is made with wormwood, which...

For Whom the Booze Tolls It was a local blacksmith who introduced a young Ernest Hemingway to the world of drinking, giving him a glass...

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...

1. If you don't drink that booze, by God, someone else will. 2. The brewing industry alone employs 1.7 million people and that's a lot...

AUGUST 6 1945: Less than an hour after an atom bomb flattened Hiroshima, the nattily-attired barmen of the Washington Press Club began shaking up...

“Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.” — Bernard Malamud I heard the news in a bar....

Societies possessing a robust and realistic attitude toward intoxication have produced mightier warriors than those which censure consumption. This is true pretty much from the...

1. Did you ever think about drinks you could drink? There’s so many drinks if you only just think! Such wonderful drinks! Even drinks that are pink! Or...