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By mjhorn Posted on February 19, 2021

Banana Breakfast

This one’s been percolating in the back of my head pretty much since day one of the project. Parts of it have been bubbling away in the actual physical world … Continue reading Banana Breakfast

Categories: Gravity's Rainbow, Other spiritsTags: Brandy, Food, France, Homebrew, Mead, Pirate Prentice
By mjhorn Posted on May 8, 2020May 8, 2020

Imported Danish Aquavit

Happy Pynchon in Public Private Day all! Did you declaim a paragraph of Gravity’s Rainbow from your rooftop? Put a copy of V in the window? Change your zoom background … Continue reading Imported Danish Aquavit

Categories: Against The Day, Other spiritsTags: Denmark, Vormance
By mjhorn Posted on November 16, 2019

Hpnotiq

A little while back, the ever entertaining and always insightful masochists at the Pynchon in Public podcast published the final episode of their Bleeding Edge season. More recently, I had … Continue reading Hpnotiq

Categories: Bleeding Edge, Other spiritsTags: Liqueur, Podcast, Pynchon in Public, Tallis
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 May 12, 2019

Conoloways White

I recently spent a week in Kentucky with ten children in my care. This provided an ideal opportunity for some moonshining. Chapter 59 of Mason & Dixon finds our charismatic … Continue reading Conoloways White

Categories: Mason & Dixon, Other spiritsTags: Conrad Wheat, Moonshine, USA, Wedding
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 January 30, 2019February 10, 2019

Sake

I was in Japan a while back, and when I wasn’t annoying my travel buddy and oldest friend searching for good Japanese whisky (ping Hibiki), I was annoying my travel … Continue reading Sake

Categories: Other spirits, VinelandTags: Bars/Places, Japan
By mjhorn Posted on December 6, 2018December 25, 2018

Arak

Somewhere deep in the vast and mapless territories of Against the Day, Lindsay Noseworth of the Chums of Chance finds himself riding atop a camel through a “nook” of New … Continue reading Arak

Categories: Against The Day, Other spiritsTags: Chums of Chance, Middle East
By mjhorn Posted on June 11, 2016June 11, 2016

Tanqueray No. 10

Although it is fairly icy cold in Melbourne and probably best suited to a whiskey and a fireplace, today is World Gin Day and I do not wish to attract the displeasure of … Continue reading Tanqueray No. 10

Categories: Bleeding Edge, Other spiritsTags: Britain, Gin, Horst, Maxine
By mjhorn Posted on January 4, 2016

Stolichnaya Elit

Probably like plenty of other Pynchonites, I found the ’90s pop-culture bandwidth overload of Bleeding Edge pleasantly jarring. Not that it was really out of character—the books are all loaded with this kind of cultural … Continue reading Stolichnaya Elit

Categories: Bleeding Edge, Other spiritsTags: Horst, Maxine, Russia, Vodka
By mjhorn Posted on November 16, 2015November 16, 2015

Apricot Brandy

Around page 718 of Against the Day, Cyprian and Yashmeen meet up with Ratty McHugh to discuss Yashmeen’s fear that she’s being followed, including by a “Hungarian element.” (My recollection of this … Continue reading Apricot Brandy

Categories: Against The Day, Other spiritsTags: Cyprian Latewood, Hungary, Ratty McHugh, Yashmeen Halfcourt
By mjhorn Posted on December 26, 2014December 26, 2014

Merry Christmas! (Fruitcake soaked in brandy)

Merry Christmas all! The day’s over here in Australia; probably just beginning for Tommy Pynchon himself. Among my celebrations, I’ve squeezed in a fruit cake soaked in brandy, as recommended by … Continue reading Merry Christmas! (Fruitcake soaked in brandy)

Categories: Mason & Dixon, Other spiritsTags: Christmas, Dixon, Food, Mason

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