Tag: drinking

HOPPY ANNIVERSARY: I’m wrapping up my report from WhiskyFest Chicago with this shot from Goose Island Wrigleyville Brewpub. Goose Island Beer Co. celebrates 25 years in business this year. Although purists went crazy when Anheuser-Busch bought the brewery two years ago with…

“I often like working with a hangover, because my mind is crackling with energy and I can think very clearly.” Irish painter Francis Bacon (Oct. 28, 1909-April 28, 1992). How many of us feel this way post-Derby, I wonder? (Fun…

If you’re heading to the Yum! Center for the Pink concert tonight, consider making a stop before or after at the new Down One Bourbon Bar, 321 W. Main St. Created in a space that was once a parking garage, it’s…

The cocktail bar – even the fantastically inventive kind – is unlikely to reach the heights of a top restaurant. Part of its appeal is also its fatal weakness: the more you taste, the less well you taste. “Don’t Guzzle…

The literary critic and language expert H.L. Mencken put together his own list of synonyms for the word ‘drunk.’ They included: snooted, stewed, jugged, jagged and pifflicated. From “Our Longing for Lists,” an op-ed piece in the Sept. 2 New…

Only the first bottle is expensive. French proverb. Happy Bastille Day!

Counting down to the season premiere of HBO’s “True Blood” at 9 and contemplating which beverage will make the best accompaniment. A Bloody Mary would be an obvious choice, but I’d rather face the True Death than drink tomato juice,…

As an unrepentant lover of puns, I would have noted this piece in The New York Times just for its headline: “The Wrath of Grapes.” It’s a provocative examination of whether a president’s attitude toward the consumption of alcoholic beverages has any bearing on his…

A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t have the decency to thank her. W.C. Fields

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me. Hunter S. Thompson, gonzo journalist and Louisville, Ky., native