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Your Guide to Home Bars
The Liquor Cabinet
AKA The Booze Box or Liquor Pantry, these demure containers take up little space, are easily disguised and some are actually quite...
A Is For…
Have you ever noticed that every great drinking story begins with the same word?
This word takes you from Point A to Point B of...
A Kick Head in the Head
The Oasis Grill was the most god-awful depressing place he had ever been, and he’d been in a lot of god-awful depressing places.
It...
Best Bar
During my long tenure as a callow youth, few things excited me more than charging from bar to bar in hot pursuit of that...
Strange Brews
Choctaw Beer
Before he was known across the country as Pretty Boy Floyd, the outlaw Charles Floyd was known in his Eastern Oklahoma hometown as...
The Qingdao Beer Festival Is Evil…
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...
Ladies Thirst, Part 3
The 1920s:
Prohibition was in full swing. Liquor (other than “medicinal” whiskey and sacramental wine) was illegal. Federal enforcers prowled the landscape, busting drinkers,...
The Art of the Lost Weekend
Weekends were once the sovereign territory of the working stiff.
Every tick and tock between the Friday exodus and Monday was consecrated ground, where a...
Episode 2: Homebrew and Schnapps with Troy Baxley
Your hosts: Frank Kelly Rich (Founder and Editor of MDM) and Nick Plumber (Poetry Editor and Travel Writer for MDM).
Special guest: Troy Baxley
Featuring: Hangover...
Be Good or Be Gone: The Legend of McSorley’s Old Ale House
“What do you mean you’ve never been to McSorley’s? Geez, Tom. I thought you said you were from New York.”
It was a phrase I...
The Booze And I: A Love Story
I first remember meeting her when I was three.
That night, she toyed with me, teased me until I reached out and grabbed her and...
Dr. Souse Is in the House!
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...
Episode 10: Gin and Rum with Jeff Mehrens
Your hosts: Frank Kelly Rich (Founder &Â Editor of MDM) and Nick Plumber (Poetry Editor and Travel Writer for MDM).
Special guest: Jeff Mehrens, President & Founder of...
Why We Drink
And why so much? Just where the hell do we get off getting loaded all the time? Do we really need a reason? In...
Urban Legends of Alcohol
THE RUMOR
Workers at the Corona brewery in Mexico urinate in the beer vats.
False. This persistent rumor started in the mid-1980s and spread like...
In Praise of Day Drinking
Mention being in a bar at 7:00 a.m. and the average person recoils in horror as his mind conjures up images of an ancient...