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Category: Cocktail/mixed

By mjhorn Posted on November 17, 2020

Martinis

We’re fast approaching our 100th drink snuck from papa Pynchon’s liquor cabinet, but this is only the second straight from the Slow Learner shelf. SL did share some vermouth concoction … Continue reading Martinis

Categories: Cocktail/mixed, Slow LearnerTags: Denis Flange, Geronimo Diaz, Low-Lands
By mjhorn Posted on July 25, 2020July 26, 2020

Cloudberry Flip

Finally got round to the Cloudberry Flip! I’ve had this Finnish cloudberry liqueur sitting around for years, making its mysterious presence felt through an improvisational dash in a thrown together … Continue reading Cloudberry Flip

Categories: Cocktail/mixed, Mason & DixonTags: Dixon, Flip, Liqueur, Mason, Stig
By mjhorn Posted on October 28, 2019October 28, 2019

Some vermouth concoction

Often here, I’ll pluck a drink from a page of Pynchon based primarily on my ignorance of it. Tommy boy has introduced me to a vast array of new favourites … Continue reading Some vermouth concoction

Categories: Against The Day, Cocktail/mixed, Slow LearnerTags: Absinthe, Italy, Kit, Kombucha
By mjhorn Posted on April 23, 2019

Tequila Sour

Not long after Oedipa first spots that muted posthorn in the bathroom of the Scope, she finds herself out with Metzger and the Paranoids for a day at the among … Continue reading Tequila Sour

Categories: Cocktail/mixed, Slow Learner, The Crying of Lot 49Tags: Meatball Mulligan, Metzger, Oedipa, Tequila
By mjhorn Posted on November 7, 2018December 6, 2018

Berncasteler Doctor

Today’s plonk tube comes to us from no less notorious a recommender than Mrs Quoad, of Disgusting English Candy Drill fame. (The original, not the usurper, for you PIPCast listeners). … Continue reading Berncasteler Doctor

Categories: Cocktail/mixed, Gravity's Rainbow, WineTags: Candy, Germany, Mrs Quoad, Slothrop
By mjhorn Posted on May 8, 2018May 13, 2018

Grain Alcohol with Grapefruit Juice

Happy Pynchon in Public day all! I confess I am not doing my drinking in public this evening, but I did at least read Vineland on the train this morning … Continue reading Grain Alcohol with Grapefruit Juice

Categories: Cocktail/mixed, Gravity's RainbowTags: Albert Krypton, Grain alcohol, Pig Bodine
By mjhorn Posted on April 9, 2018May 8, 2018

Gwenhidwy’s Drink

As you should all already know, the Pynchon in Public Podcast team have planted the glorious tombstone/nosecone on their quest both madcap and meticulous through Gravity’s Rainbow after the rocket. … Continue reading Gwenhidwy’s Drink

Categories: Cocktail/mixed, Gravity's RainbowTags: Grain alcohol, Gwenhidwy, Podcast, Pynchon in Public
By mjhorn Posted on January 4, 2018February 27, 2018

Torpedo Juice

During WWII, US Navy torpedos were fuelled on 180 proof grain alcohol. So were the sailors.  The torpedos had an easier time stomaching the stuff. Alcohol was (and is) more-or-less … Continue reading Torpedo Juice

Categories: Cocktail/mixed, VTags: Grain alcohol, Howie Surd, Navy, Torpedo
By mjhorn Posted on July 3, 2017July 14, 2017

Soju Wallbanger

It’s time for that old favourite game again: drinking things Guardian commenters say you shouldn’t. Last time it was vodka with milk, vegetable soup, and watermelon juice. Today it’s the … Continue reading Soju Wallbanger

Categories: Bleeding Edge, Cocktail/mixedTags: Korea, Maxine, Soju
By mjhorn Posted on May 30, 2017June 30, 2017

Brandy Alexander

Just post-Slothrop’s troubling moment with the really-too-young Bianca (discussed with great thoughtfulness and insight on the latest Pynchon in Public podcast), our dubious hero finds himself weaving through “newly-risen roisterers” below decks on the … Continue reading Brandy Alexander

Categories: Cocktail/mixed, Gravity's RainbowTags: Brandy, Cognac, Slothrop
By mjhorn Posted on January 31, 2017January 31, 2017

Brandy and Soda

The brandy and soda is a drink that seems to exist today primarily as a P. G. Wodehouse reference. It’s a basic combination that nevertheless occurs to no-one but those imitating … Continue reading Brandy and Soda

Categories: Against The Day, Cocktail/mixedTags: Brandy, Khäutsch, Mortality and Mercy in Vienna, Neville, Nigel
By mjhorn Posted on October 16, 2016October 16, 2016

Absinthe Frappé

This here is the fiftieth drink to join our digital cabinet of liquors! And a mighty fine addition it is too. If I were asked elect an emblematic spirit for each Pynchon book, some choices would be … Continue reading Absinthe Frappé

Categories: Against The Day, Cocktail/mixedTags: Absinthe, France, Reef Traverse, USA

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