Tag: Horst

• 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 the World Gin Police. Drunk Pynchonette and I have a resolutely summery gin old-fashioned each. The particular gin is Tanqueray No. 10, pulled from the same […]

  mjhorn

  June 11, 2016

  Bleeding Edge, Other spirits

  Britain, Gin, Horst, Maxine

• 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 flotsam and jetsam. It’s just that Pynchon’s usually rebuilding a pop culture expired well before my time. Catching lowbrow references comprehensible without wikipedia was a strange new […]

  mjhorn

  January 4, 2016

  Bleeding Edge, Other spirits

  Horst, Maxine, Russia, Vodka

• 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 to show for its long history, even if the beer itself is perhaps less exceptional. I was of course curious as to what Pynchonian alcoholic […]

  mjhorn

  July 18, 2014

  Beer, Bleeding Edge

  Bars/Places, Driscoll, Horst, Lager, Maxine, Pynchon, Rolling Rock, USA