Modern Drunkard Magazine

The War on Booze is nothing new. We're all familiar with the reign of terror called Prohibition. Going further back, temperance leagues have scolded and...

It's early Sunday morning and I don't know who I am. I don't mean that in any existential kind of way. I mean I don't...

Staggering, I mean really staggering, is rapidly becoming a lost art. In fact, in this modern PC world, the only one who appreciates a good...

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

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

The creation of a perfect martini is no great mystery. Once the process to produce one is learned, a perfect martini can be made over...

Maligned, despised, and nearly banned in Scotland. Buckfast Tonic Wine had a rare moment of glory on May 14th, 2016­—the first World Buckfast Day. A...

Nothing goes together quite like alcohol and open water. Maybe it has something to do with the sense of weightlessness. When I was a kid,...

A man is, ultimately, the sum of his accomplishments. Each culture, of course, has a different idea as to what rates as an accomplishment. Muslims,...

Sylvanus Thayer—whose name sounds like a lizard-rat-man hybrid Lord Voldemort would keep caged for dark-magic rape rituals—took command of West Point in 1817. Within a...

If you’re a good boy and wait until you’re 21 to start boozing, and reach the life expectancy of an average American, you’re looking...

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...

Well, here you are. It's over. It's probably been coming for some time, but being the romantic sap that you are, you thought you could...

500 lb. hitchhiker a patron who is being deliberately ignored by a bartender or waitress. bar magnet  the invisible force that makes it nearly impossible...