We all drink Wednesday night as we prep casseroles and pies. Right? We drink across the feasting frenzy itself, starting at noon or earlier. Day drinking on Thanksgiving not only is fully licensed, but encouraged. Noon imbibing punctuates the next day, too, as we wash down sandwiches layered with turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy and… Read More
Citrus flows through the veins of bar pros. Lemon twists and Tom Collins. Lime wedges and Margaritas. And oranges, the fruit responsible for some measure of the gorgeousness of a well-crafted Old Fashioned. At this point, I think it’s fair to suspect that barman and Old Fashioned-lover D.J. Riemer bleeds orange, although not blood orange.… Read More
Primitive Beer goes all-in for wild-fermented ales Based on exceptionally high-level differential equations work that I recently conducted over a glass of Barbaresco, I determined that between the age of 14 and 53 I took precisely 1,145,679 sips of beer. Sadly (or perhaps disturbingly), I remember only a few of those sips. I recall my… Read More