Tag: featured

• Sazerac

  

  Against the Day serving up another favourite! Ever since as a somewhat pretentious teenager I decided it should be thus, I’ve esteemed the Sazerac above all other cocktails. It’s a boozy contemplator, rye whiskey lifted and complicated with some sugar, Peychaud’s bitters and hint of absinthe. A slightly weirder, more gothic Old Fashioned. Pynchon’s Sazerac […]

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  March 12, 2022

  Against The Day, Cocktail/mixed

  Cognac, featured, New Orleans, Reef Traverse, USA, Whiskey

• Italian Gin

  

  We return now after an interregnum of two years to the Ballad of Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Slothrop’s ode to his drunkard mate. Last time we came for the French beer, nowhere near as septic as our lieutenant would have it. Hopefully he’s misjudged Italian gin too. The Ballad of Tantivy Mucker-Maffick Oh Italian gin is a […]

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  January 22, 2022

  Gravity’s Rainbow, Other spirits

  featured, Italy, Slothrop, Songs, Tantivy

• Dom Pérignon

  

  We have, I suppose, a bit of a conspicuous consumption problem around here sometimes. Pynchon’s drinks may more than occasionally point to the capitalistic excess of the drinker. If we find Scarsdale Vibe guzzling Pommery, we might be best not to take that as an authorial endorsement of the Champagne house. In other instances, the […]

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  January 5, 2022

  Inherent Vice, Wine

  Champagne, Dean Martin, Doc Sportello, Fabian Fazzo, featured, France