Tag: Tantivy

• 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 […]

  mjhorn

  January 22, 2022

  Gravity’s Rainbow, Other spirits

  featured, Italy, Slothrop, Songs, Tantivy

• French Beer

  

  French stuff gets a good run around here. Usually wine, occasionally brandy, now and then absinthe. Never before a French beer though. Beer doesn’t really register on the Franco-radar. According to this book Farmhouse Ales I happen to have sitting on my shelf though, the French have a “little known tradition of beer appreciation” and […]

  mjhorn

  August 23, 2020

  Beer, Gravity’s Rainbow

  France, Saison, Slothrop, Tantivy