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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 May 8, 2016May 8, 2016

Whisky Sours

8 May is universally recognised and celebrated as Pynchon in Public day. Parades fill the streets from Venice Beach to Vheissu; confetti pours from airships over all the world’s great capitals. In … Continue reading Whisky Sours

Categories: Cocktail/mixed, The Crying of Lot 49Tags: Bars/Places, Mucho, Oedipa, Pynchon in Public, Sour
By mjhorn Posted on May 23, 2015May 23, 2015

Cock Ale

Don’t get too excited—Pynchon clearly has his saucier moments, but I haven’t gone all NSFW on you here. A cock’s a chicken, you dirty bastards. And what could be a … Continue reading Cock Ale

Categories: Beer, Mason & DixonTags: Bars/Places, Beer, Dixon, Maskelyne, Mason
By mjhorn Posted on May 3, 2015May 3, 2015

Champagne Cocktails

With all the drinking in Pynchon, you’d think there’d be a few more recognisable bars dotting his fictional landscapes. But the only one that really jumps out to me is The … Continue reading Champagne Cocktails

Categories: Cocktail/mixed, The Crying of Lot 49Tags: Bars/Places, Black Pearl, Blanton's, Bourbon, Champagne, Guiness, Metzger, Mike Fallopian, Oedipa, Prosecco
By mjhorn Posted on March 7, 2015March 7, 2015

Singapore Sling

We Australian Pynchonites have been waiting patiently and less patiently for Inherent Vice to reach our shores. It did finally appear in Melbourne in a moonlight preview last week, but I was already seeing … Continue reading Singapore Sling

Categories: Cocktail/mixed, Inherent Vice, VinelandTags: Bars/Places, Cookie, Doc Sportello, Lourdes, Minoru, Motella, Takeshi
By mjhorn Posted on August 26, 2014October 25, 2014

Papa Doble (and a giveaway!)

The paperback of Bleeding Edge comes out tomorrow in the US. That’s the updated cover passing on our right. The press release from Penguin Press reminds me (as I’m sure I don’t have … Continue reading Papa Doble (and a giveaway!)

Categories: Bleeding Edge, Cocktail/mixedTags: Bars/Places, Giveaway, Hemingway, March Kelleher, Maxine, New Gold Mountain
By mjhorn Posted on July 18, 2014July 19, 2014

Rolling Rock

A week or so ago, I had the unexpectedly excellent experience of visiting the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St Louis. The brewery complex was opened in 1852, and it has some terrific architecture … Continue reading Rolling Rock

Categories: Beer, Bleeding EdgeTags: Bars/Places, Driscoll, Horst, Lager, Maxine, Pynchon, Rolling Rock, USA
By mjhorn Posted on June 14, 2014August 21, 2014

Boilermaker

Whiskey and Alement hides its vast whisky stores and careful beer selection behind a curtained door in a dead pocket of the Melbourne CBD. It’s a Pynchonesque place, in its … Continue reading Boilermaker

Categories: Beer, Inherent Vice, V, Whisk(e)yTags: Bars/Places, boilermaker, Brooklyn Brewery, Bunnahabhain, Doc Sportello, Pynchon, Roony, Sauncho, Scotland, USA

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