Practical info for the smarter drinker
St. Patrick’s Day began as a religious feast to celebrate the Irish patron Saint Patrick after his death on March 17, 491 AD. A celebration of Irish culture and the arrival of Christianity in Ireland, March 17 is the one day during the Lenten season that the alcohol restrictions are lifted for fasting Christians, which is …
How does beer get skunked: a question that implies people actually let this happen, all of whom should be very ashamed and righteously punished. But, that doesn’t really provide any answers… “Skunky” beer, for those of you fortunate enough to have never had one foul your lips, is beer that has gone bad – insofar …
As if drinking alcohol wasn’t easy enough – welcome to the age of breathable booze. Breathing inhalable liquor is nothing new and was first introduced to the U.S. by the Brits in 2004. That product, called Alcohol Without Liquid (or AWOL, for short), was set for a splashy debut in Manhattan shortly after its unveiling …
Prohibition, for those of you who are not familiar with this dark chapter of American history, was the period between 1920 and 1933 when there was a federal ban on alcohol. That’s right – alcohol was illegal across the entire country. Of course, that didn’t stop people who wanted a drink from finding one, which …
Most of us are familiar with the likes of beer, wine, whiskey, rum, tequila and a few other types of alcohol, but did you ever suspect there may be more varieties lurking out there in the world? If you’ve ever set foot in a foreign country … or the hinterland of Kentucky … there’s no …