Borepatch

FotB Tom Lindsay has a very interesting blog: The Whiskey Trail which is all about, well, cocktailblogging.  He has a very fun series of po...

Stolen from And Some It's Just As Well .  My favorites are all here (in order of personal preference): W. L. Weller Special Reserve.   I...

I ran across this because the Youtube algorithm tossed it up in my feed (Lord knows why).  But Andre Mack seems to have some chops as a somm...

For my birthday, The Queen Of The World got me (among other things) a really interesting book: Wayne Curtis' book, And A Bottle Of Rum: ...

Today is the Kentucky Derby, so music is to get you in the mood.  There are no lyrics, just Chet Atkins at his picking best.  I've previ...

FOtB Pachydermis2 is tending bar at the coolest bar ever . I would totally have a drink there.  Oh by the way, his mask was because they wer...

Today is the Kentucky Derby, and so favored daughter of Kentucky (and Kentucky Colonel) The Queen Of The World's Mint Julep comes to min...

The island of Cyprus still makes what seems to be the oldest type of wine that we know about.  Commandaria got its name from the headquarte...

I posted this ten years ago, and it's still funny.  You can get them here . Tonight we're going to party like it's  1999  191...

It dates from the Roman Empire : The Speyer wine bottle (or "Römerwein") is a sealed vessel, presumed to contain liquid wine , a...

HAHAHAHAHA! Seriously, I'd totally drink that.

San Francisco watering hole offers a $43 martini : Epic Steak, a waterfront dining spot popular with the finance and tech sectors that ha...

Especially if you're watching the Irish sports commentator announcing sailing (which he clearly doesn't know anything about). Op...

Bloody Mary made with Bakon vodka. Man, it's good. Given the name by the Queen Of The World. You might say "knighted", ...

Good news for holiday tipplers : Now Champagne makers have gone a step further, claiming that global warming has been good for them. Acc...

You know you have a drinking problem when your fridge starts looking like this. Let's be careful out there.

We like a lot of Sauvignon Blanc here at Camp Borepatch, and so I picked up a bottle at Trader Joe's absurdly low $4.49 list price.  Thi...

Interesting .  Also interesting that this wasn't published in Modern Drunkard .

Act the First: Take one bottle of a-step-up-from-bottom-shelf bourbon.  I like W. L. Weller which is decent and goes for around $12 a bott...

Because bacon . Made Man is an interesting site, perhaps to be a less urban (and online) GQ.  There's quite a lot of "Top X...