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Hump Day Liquor Links

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Random drinking links? Yep, we got that.

    The Famous Grouse becomes a bit more famous.
    Eatocracy shares its guide to stocking your bar for a happy, sane holiday.
    Flying is getting boozier at the airport and in the air.
    Tipsy Wine Testing Glass.
    The stories behind 11 famous cocktails.
    A gift guide for the serious imbiber from, well, Serious Eats.
    More random drinking facts from Alcademics.
    Alcoholic whipped cream. What can we say? What? Anyone?

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Liquor Links – Thanksgiving Edition

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Happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy the links and share your own. Cheers!

    Esquire’s “Every Man’s Guide to Surviving Thanksgiving“
    Courvoisier’s new line of cognac is said to be revolutionary.
    Rachel Maddow talks cocktails on Sporkful
    Dark Roasted Blend – World’s Strangest & Strongest Alcohols
    Recipe Inspiration from Serious Eats – What to do with Thanksgiving Leftovers
    Sure it’s November, but this is a great round of Oktoberfest Beer and Girls.

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Hump Day Liquor Links

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This week’s collections of libatious links!

    Brian Rea has cranked out another issue of The Barkeeper. A must read.
    A deer tries to get a drink in an Ohio bar, destruction ensues.
    San Francisco’s Broken Record has Four Roses Bourbon on tap. Yes, whiskey on tap!
    Snooth names the five most overused wine words.
    The Dog Whisperer is not a friend of alcoholics.
    Anchor Steam gets an award.
    Adam Morganstern shares his top 10 wines

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Do More with Less and Win a Windows 7 Phone

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Update: We have a winner. Samantha from NorCal. Congrats!

The holidays are here and what should be a nice relaxing “holiday” can easily turn into a very stressful unrelaxing time for the host. Knowing this, we have assembled some tips to help make your holiday entertaining a bit less stressful (and economical)! Oh yeah, and we are going to give away a Windows 7 Phone to a lucky commenter, all you need to do is … Read more

Moon Mountain Vodka Review

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Moon Mountain is a new entrant in the field of organic vodkas. Created by Master Distiller Gerry Webb, Moon Mountain is made in a small batch (3000 gallons) copper pot still, not the continuous column stills used to produce most vodkas these days. The copper pot still gives the vodka some body. The still in question is 80 years old and was used to make Gin for most of its life, which gives Moon Mountain … Read more

Hump Day Liquor Links

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This week’s links from around the web.

    Appoliciuos highlights five clever cocktail apps.
    Beam me up Scotchie. Star Trek cocktails from Geeks are Sexy.
    Uncrate’s go a hold of the new Adult Chocolate Milk. Uh, where’s our bottle?
    Michigan bans Four Loko and other alcoholic energy drinks.
    Gregory Dal Piaz breaks down the 12 Types of Wine Lovers.

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Hump Day Liquor Links

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Sorry we’ve been silent for a bit. We just moved to a shiny new dedicated server. We’re still working out the kinks so let us know is you see anything wonky. Oh yeah, and the Giants won the World Series!

Now onto the links:

    Serious Eats shows how to make Mulling Spices for the Holidays. Can’t make Mulled Cider without them.
    Karl Kozel argues the free pour vs. measuring. We say free pouring chops come

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Hump Day Liquor Links

This week’s boozy links:

    This Seattle Starbucks turns into Barbucks after 4 pm.
    25 Geeky Drinking games.
    Men’s Health shows us 31 things you can do with beer besides drinking it.
    Revolutionary America was apparently quite randy. The Founding Fathers were not pleased.
    The couple at A Dangerous Business share over 200 photos of bottles taken over their world tour.
    12 Bottle Bar mixes up Satan’s Whiskers.
    Go figure, drinking triggers more pleasure in male

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Cruzan 9 Spiced Rum Review

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A nice afternoon surprise, a bottle of Cruzan 9 Spiced rum arrived. It’s even numbered #140 of their first 500!

Spiced rum seems to be all the rage this fall. To capitalize on this trend, Cruzan sought to develop a ‘real’ spiced rum. They came up with the 80-proof Cruzan 9, a unique blend of nine spices, handcrafted by the Nelthropp family, now in their 8 generation of rum distilling. Cruzan 9, is made of

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Hump Day Liquor Links

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This week’s hot, sweet links.

    Laura Beck goes on a booze cruise in San Francisco
    Art of the Drink explains how to name a cocktail
    The Wall Street Journal reports that Guinness is making a push in the US Market. They had dotw at hello.
    The intoxicologist takes on prohibition cocktails inspired Boardwalk Empire
    Cocktailian, Gary Regan, schools the kids in basic mixology
    Portland Cocktail Week is coming Oct 20 – 24. So if your

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