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Friday drinking activities began, as most Fridays do, with the Rule 37 cocktail of the week: The White Lady. Tasty. But there were also a couple beers in there, notably a Lakefront IPA, and a bomber of Blatant IPA shared with the Lady Friend. IPAs don’t get much better than […]

The Monday Hangover: April 7-8

11 Apr, 2012 in Boston / Drink tagged beer / Cambridge Brewing Company / cocktail / irish lad / lady friend / Lock-Ober / Mayflower Brewery / Monday Hangover / People's Republic of Cambridge / Union Brewhouse / Untappd / Ward 8 / wifey by squirrelfarts

The Monday Hangover: Other drink adventures of note from the weekend. Yeah, this took awhile to complete. Sue me. Friday FINALLY came after another looooong (but warm) week. By the end of it, I was just crawling towards Friday night cocktails, and Rule 37. A large double whiskey sour followed […]

The Monday Hangover: Mar 17-18

23 Mar, 2012 in Boston / Drink tagged beer / brewpub / Cambridge Common / cocktail / Davis Square / East Coast Brew Crawl / Five Horses Tavern / Harvard Square / irish lad / John Harvard / John Harvard's Brew House / Ladies of Craft Beer / Monday Hangover / Redbones / Underbones / Untappd / wifey by squirrelfarts

So the Lady Friend and I took a day trip up to our home state of Moo Hampsha for some good ol’ Granite State boozing. This is Part I of the adventure. For those who may have missed it, there’s a handy map on my White Birch Brewing post that […]

Drink Free or Die Part I: Smuttynose

16 Mar, 2012 in Drink / New Hampshire tagged beer / brewery / Frank Jones Brewing Company / Peter Egelston / Portsmouth Brewery / Smuttynose Brewing Company by squirrelfarts

Aside from the weekly Rule 37 drink this week, there wasn’t much to tell in a Monday Hangover post. At least, nothing noteworthy except Saturday night’s event: a beer tasting party featuring some brews from Lakefront Brewery in Milwaukee, WI. I was introduced to Lakefront a couple years ago while […]

A Sampling of Lakefront Brewery’s Brews

14 Mar, 2012 in Boston / Drink / Wisconsin tagged baltic porter / beer / BeerBro / black IPA / Engineer / IBA / irish lad / lady friend / lager / Russ Klisch / strong ale / wifey by squirrelfarts

Hot on the heels of our visit to Ryan & Wood Distillery, the Lady Friend and I headed into downtown Gloucester to check another well-known North Shore location off our list. No, we didn’t see that statue of the fisherman guy. We went drinking. Of course. Cape Ann Brewpub. Welcome […]

The Pub at Cape Ann Brewing Company

8 Mar, 2012 in Boston / Drink tagged beer / brewpub / Cape Ann Brewing Company / Gloucester / lady friend / Ryan & Wood Distilleries by squirrelfarts

The Monday Hangover: Other drink adventures of note from the weekend. Yes, it took me until Thursday to finish this post. We start, as always, with Friday evening. Instead of our usual cocktail adventures, the Lady Friend and I headed out to the Union Brewhouse to meet up with former […]

The Monday Hangover: Feb 11-12

16 Feb, 2012 in Boston / Drink tagged Atlantic Beer Garden / beer / bock / Brent / Harpoon Brewery / irish lad / KFlynn / Kruppcake / lady friend / Lady Shaw / Leelz / Missurah / Narragansett / Purple Shamrock / Shaw / Stoddard's Fine Food & Ale / Towah / Tresstastic / Union Brewhouse / Whiskey's / wifey / zero by squirrelfarts

I love tv. A lot. Seriously. I watch it more than I know is healthy. And do unhealthy things while watching it, like drink beer and eat fatty food. But it’s comforting. When I went through a period of underemployment, my tv helped me through it, and despite the personal […]

TVs in bars/ Stoddard’s

9 Feb, 2012 in Boston / Drink tagged beer / Boston / Bronx with Bitters / cocktail / cocktail bar / craft beer bar / Income Tax / Jack Rose / lager / Leelz / milk stout / Planters Punch / Stoddard's Fine Food & Ale / Temple Smash by squirrelfarts

Too many beers. That’s the only way to describe Sunset Grill and Tap in Allston. Their website claims 112 taps and 380 bottles. It’s out of control. Not that it’s a bad thing. Sunset at sunset. I don’t pretend to know much about Allston-Brighton. It’s over on the Green Line, […]

Sunset Grill and Tap. Mostly tap.

31 Jan, 2012 in Boston / Drink tagged Allston-Brighton / barleywine / beer / Do Re Mi Karaoke / Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA / IPA / irish lad / lady friend / Sissy / Sunset Grill and Tap / wifey by squirrelfarts

The Monday Hangover: Other drink adventures of note from the weekend. Wowsers. I might actually publish a Monday Hangover post on a Monday. Friday started with a break in the usual routine. The Lady Friend was off to have dinner with some friends in Charlestown, and I had some projects […]

The Monday Hangover: Jan 28-29

30 Jan, 2012 in Boston / Drink tagged ale / Beantown Pub / beer / black IPA / Boston / Jacob Wirth / lady friend / Limoncello / Monday Hangover / Purple Shamrock / Ristorante Limoncello by squirrelfarts

Yup. Narragansett beer turned Natalie Portman into a stripper. Seriously. Now do I have your undivided attention? Allow me to explain. Let’s start with the basics: Narragansett is/was a brand of beer quite well known in New England, since it was brewed in New England. The old brewery was in […]

How Narragansett Made Natalie Portman a Stripper

11 Jan, 2012 in Boston / Drink tagged beer / Biggie Smalls / boobs / Curt Gowdy / Haffenreffer / Narragansett / Narragansett Brewing Company / Natalie Portman / Nichols and May / Private Stock by squirrelfarts

Fresh from our CBC visit, the Lady Friend and I were still in Soviet Cambridge, “where beer drinks YOU!” Our lunch beers nestled happily in our gizzards as we meandered back towards the Kendall/MIT Red Line but with one very important beer-centric detour: Meadhall. Close enough. Meadhall is a relatively […]

Meadhall

9 Jan, 2012 in Boston / Drink tagged beer / Imperial IPA / irish lad / lady friend / Meadhall / milk stout / People's Republic of Cambridge by squirrelfarts

Ugh. Cambridge, The People’s Republic of. For those of you not familiar with the area, it’s called that due to the extreme liberal-hippie-happy-friendly-environmental-more bike lanes-fewer cars-save the whales, bunnies and tsetse flies-hipster-aged college professor-drive a Prius-shop at Whole Foods-mentality. It’s like an east coast mini-San Francisco, and one of the […]

You down with CBC? Yeah, you know me

3 Jan, 2012 in Boston / Drink tagged beer / brewery / brewpub / Cambridge / Cambridge Brewing Company / lady friend / People's Republic of Cambridge by squirrelfarts