Tag: Stencil

• Sloe Gin Fizz

  

  In the last part of the last pre-epilogue chapter of V., Fausto Maijstral walks into Profane’s lodging-house in Malta, looking for Stencil. He’s gone though, and Maijstral can’t even find a drink. Profane’s drank everything in the house, and now lies “snoring and drooling and apparently enjoying himself,” (p. 452). Maijstral wakes him up and…

  mjhorn

  May 13, 2023

  Cocktail/mixed, V

  Fausto Maijstral, Malta, Profane, Stencil

• Homemade wine

  

  I started making wine at the very beginning of covid lockdowns in Melbourne. On Good Friday 2020, in a transaction illegal under the newly implemented social distancing laws, I picked up four boxes of grapes from the back of a Hilux at a servo on the side of a highway. I spent the drive there…

  mjhorn

  October 23, 2022

  Mason & Dixon, V, Vineland, Wine

  Cabernet, Dixon, Homebrew, Jesuits, Ralph Wayvone, Stencil

• Barcelona Beer (Estrella / Moritz)

  

  In the epilogue of V., Stencil’s headed off to lunch or something with Maijstral when he’s intercepted by someone who seems to be “a Greek Pope or parish priest.” They abandon Maijstral and proceed down an alley, and the priest pulls off his beard and skull cap, revealing himself as Demivolt, one of Stencil’s spy compadres from…

  mjhorn

  April 3, 2015

  Beer, V

  Demivolt, Spain, Stencil