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sfo03_alembicbar — This here is Part Four of the Grand Caliventure of November 2011. For Part 1, make the clicking to here. Not your turn yet, Sissy. But soon. Following our delicious lunch and tasty beers at Magnolia, the Lady Friend and I started heading down Haight Street towards our next destination, […]

Soused in SanFran – Part 4: SFO D2 Alembic

18 Nov, 2011 in California / Drink tagged Alembic / blood and sand / campari / Carpano Antica / cocktail / cocktail bar / gin / Ke$hia Ho / lady friend / negroni / rye / San Francisco / The Alembic Bar / whiskey by squirrelfarts

rule37boulevardier — I had entered a couple photos in a local art show Friday night, so our cocktail night was a bit delayed. Lady Friend started with wine at the show, then switched over to beer for dinner at the Union Brewhouse, where we each checked two more brews off of our […]

Rule 37: The Boulevardier

19 Sep, 2011 in Boston / Drink tagged beer / Belgian / Blue Hills Brewery / bourbon / campari / cocktail / Harpoon / Haverhill Brewery / IPA / lady friend / negroni / rule 37 / rye / sweet vermouth / whiskey by squirrelfarts

hops — Irish Lad and I are comrades in beer. His counterpart, Wifey, is not a beer drinker, and has started to get irritated when we hang out, because he and I geek out with beer talk, for hours if left uninterrupted. We both enjoy a wide variety of craft brews, as […]

Beeriffic Brews

18 Jul, 2011 in Drink tagged beer / Berkshire Brewing / boobs / Boston Beer Works / citra / Harpoon / homebrew / IPA / irish lad / lady friend / pale ale / PBR / rye / Sierra Nevada / wifey / zero by squirrelfarts

shotglasses — For the past couple months, Lady Friend and I had been discussing a road trip up to Vermont, and perhaps Canada. I’ve been mulling it over since about a year ago, when I learned of the existence of Alberta Premium, a 100% rye Canadian whisky. As a rye lover, I […]

Alberta Premium

12 Jul, 2011 in Drink tagged Alberta Premium / Boston / Copley / Elsa / lady friend / Local 121 / Montreal / Oak Room / pikesville / Providence / rittenhouse / rye / SAQ / taste test / whisky by squirrelfarts

heavenmanhattan — My current Lady Friend has come to share in my interest of cocktails. She’s a tequila gal, which leaves my whisky splendidily available for my sole consumption. Over the course of our time together, I have been encouraging her to start a small home bar of her own. Due to […]

The $50 Manhattan

27 Mar, 2011 in Drink tagged atlas liquors / bitters / boston shaker / bottled in bond / cocktail / fee brothers / irish lad / lady friend / manhattan / rittenhouse / rye / wifey by squirrelfarts