EaterSF is running a contest for the douchiest bar in SF. I've picked MatrixFillmore, which is everything wrong with the Marina in one jam-packed collar-popped space. The nomination thread is hysterical.

What are you doing for Repeal Day? (Friday, December 5.)

The Chronicle has a small list of events - my possibilities are ( Read more... )

Cool article in 7x7 (SF mag) - Diary Of A Mixologist. Mixology is certainly the Hot Thing in the world of drinking right now, and San Francisco likes to fancy itself on the cutting edge. (This is also the kind of bartending that Jeffrey Morgenthaler up in Eugene does. His East Of Eden is a triumph of gin ( Read more... )

Every year, the average American adult drinks the equivalent of 38 six-packs of beer, a dozen bottles of wine and two quarts of distilled spirits like gin, rum, single malt Scotch, or vodka that aspires to single malt status through the addition of flavors normally associated with yogurt or bubble bath.

( Full text of article under the cut, emphases mine )

From MediaPost:

1882, a new brand of Italian alcoholic drink Fernet, launched a quirky TV campaign this summer in Córdoba, Argentina, a province where residents are obsessed with drinking Fernet and only Fernet. Rather than launch a campaign that positions 1882 as a Fernet brand, twelve nonsensical TV spots were created. A man with a big head, ( Read more... )

Otherwise my entire life would be a sham!!!

You Are a Star
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Dude, I don't even know where to start. So I'll just post a short note to reassure y'all that smonsterbite and luluminion are okay, much fun was had, I love my Buffistas (and didn't get enough time with them!), and I'm going to have to stay sober for a couple of weeks just to give my liver a rest.

Honestly, I can be mellow. I swear.

Whoo.

I plan to drink some fine Irish usquebaugh, or at least the modern equivalent imported to America these days, in celebration of that portion of my heritage. I will then wish all of my bartender friends luck,. and then there shall be retreating up to my apartment to watch the festivities (read: Amateur Night) from a safe remove ( Read more... )

1) I love the Internets.

2) I love etymology.

3) I love booze.

Therefore, I present to you this most pleasing entry from answers.com:

whis·key also whis·ky (hwĭs'kē, wĭs ( Read more... )

You're walking in to work the next day and you wonder what the hell you said. Not because you can't remember what you said, but because you don't know what in blazes got in to you to say those things. You can remember every damned word, and you're laughing at yourself for saying them. You're also a little embarrassed, because what the hell were ( Read more... )

December 14, 2005
Wines of The Times

Champagne: How Low Can You Go?
( Mmmm, bubbly. )