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By mjhorn Posted on January 19, 2021January 19, 2021

Lafite Rothschild

Well so I got bored of joking that someone should buy me a Lafite Rothschild bottle and just went and did it myself. Let’s not dwell too long on the … Continue reading Lafite Rothschild

Categories: Gravity's Rainbow, WineTags: Candy, France, Mrs Quoad, Slothrop
By mjhorn Posted on November 9, 2020November 9, 2020

Watered pink wine

Perhaps after a weekend of global celebration following the Americans’ step back toward sanity, I’m not the only one who could use some gentle Monday hair of the dog? My … Continue reading Watered pink wine

Categories: Against The Day, Gravity's Rainbow, WineTags: Dally Rideout, Frank Traverse, Säure Bummer, Slothrop
By mjhorn Posted on September 27, 2020

Sherry

No one thus far has drunk sherry in a Pynchon novel that I have noticed. But sherry’s ghost does linger by a window during the Rathenau séance early in Gravity’s … Continue reading Sherry

Categories: Gravity's Rainbow, WineTags: Fortified wine, Jessica Swanlake, Milton Gloaming, Pirate Prentice, Roger Mexico, Spain
By mjhorn Posted on August 23, 2020August 23, 2020

French Beer

French stuff gets a good run around here. Usually wine, occasionally brandy, now and then absinthe. Never before a French beer though. Beer doesn’t really register on the Franco-radar. According … Continue reading French Beer

Categories: Beer, Gravity's RainbowTags: France, Saison, Slothrop, Tantivy
By mjhorn Posted on April 13, 2020

Zeltinger

Like probably everyone, I’ve been finding reading lately involves a constant underlying outrage that characters are going about pursuing such extravagances as associating in groups of more than two, coming … Continue reading Zeltinger

Categories: Gravity's Rainbow, WineTags: Germany, Leni Pökler
By mjhorn Posted on September 3, 2019

Irish Whiskey and Water

When we last met here, you were humouring my rambling on at unprecedented length and pretentiousness about fermented horse milk. Let’s maybe settle back down with something a little simpler. … Continue reading Irish Whiskey and Water

Categories: Gravity's Rainbow, Whisk(e)yTags: Ireland, Slothrop
By mjhorn Posted on July 14, 2019July 14, 2019

Kumis

Some in the past have had the gall to suggest that this project is nothing more than alcoholism dressed up in exotic hats and tweed jackets. These scurrilous individuals should … Continue reading Kumis

Categories: Gravity's Rainbow, Other spiritsTags: Central Asia, Chums of Chance, Dzaqyp Qulan, Kyrgyzstan, Milk, Tchitcherine
By mjhorn Posted on March 30, 2019March 30, 2019

Cognac

Cognac first appears in Pynchon crated up on the Swinemünde dock, among the cargo Gerhardt von Göll / Der Springer is shipping upriver. Springer’s cargo also features “six chorus girls, … Continue reading Cognac

Categories: Against The Day, Gravity's Rainbow, Other spiritsTags: Dally Rideout, Der Sringer, France, Policarpe
By mjhorn Posted on December 25, 2018January 30, 2019

Happy Christmas! (Piesporter)

It’s Christmas Day in Australia, and we’re pairing the mud crab, prawns, and salads with a Piesporter German riesling from Gravity’s Rainbow. We’ve had maybe more explicitly Christmassy tipples in past years … Continue reading Happy Christmas! (Piesporter)

Categories: Gravity's Rainbow, WineTags: Christmas, Germany, Leni Pökler
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

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