Why You Feel Smarter After A Few Beers
Editor’s Note: What’s a bar without friends, whisky, beer and some jokes. Here are a few…
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Eyes for the Sea
She’s not wooden and she can really see. All other figureheads on ships and boats—women,…
Wine School Online with Eric Asimov: A Lot of Interactive Fun
When it comes to food, I like to think of wine as the in-between alcohol…
The New Face (and legs) of Jim Beam
Mila Kunis is a 30 year-old, Ukrainian-born American actress, best known for making “most beautiful…
Absinthe Makes The Heart Grow Fonder
Absinthe was first used as a way to prevent French soldiers from getting malaria during…
I Took Heart From Omaha Beach
If you visit any National Park in the USA, or any shoreline, it is against…
Is Woodford Reserve’s TV Commercial Sexist?
“When I see a man drinking bourbon, I expect him to be the kind who…
Best Poker Scene in Movies
Poker is not made for the movies: it moves too slowly, the real action is…
Whiskey Poker with a Widow’s Hand
Not sure how this one got called Whiskey Poker, but the game folks over at…
Beer, Baseball and Boys
Editor’s note: Continuing the conversation from the Virtual Bar. Dr. Eric: Joe Nuxhall used to…
Resolutions without plans are like ladders without rungs
According to Forbes magazine, only 8 percent of us keep our New Year’s resolutions. About…
We’ll take a cup of kindness yet…
Sometime today you will sing or hum “Should all acquaintance be forgot and never thought…
The Drunkard and the Drammard
Consider the drunkard,
He reeks of the junkyard,
The sick sticky floor of the bar.
Shots vs. Wee Drams: Drinking Patterns Mirror National Cultures
The illustration says it better: Countries have DNA just as individuals do. These are the…
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Eighty years ago today, on December 5, 1933, prohibition of alcohol use ended in the…
In Wine as in Music, the Three Bs Suffice
This is more BarTalk, our pages on TD for the miscellaneous whisky, wine, beer stuff.…
The Story of How the First Two Cans of Schlitz Beer Landed in Normandy on D-Day
Sam Gibbons was my Congressman when I was in college. What I remember about him…
How to Spot a Democrat and a Republican
This one is fun, worth a laugh or two. God knows there is not much…
William Faulkner’s Whisky Words
“My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper,…
From the Virtual Bar in the Global Village
Editor’s Note: We’re a bunch of guys who have one degree of separation from the…