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Drinking and Dog-Walking? We're Listening.

In some physical activities, the rules of when imbibing is acceptable can be blurry, like the “19th hole” thing. Sipping on the golf course is fine. But sipping while walking a dog? It has never occurred to me.

1:00PM Tue. Apr. 18, 2023, A. Richmond Read More | Comment »

Valentine’s Day Booze You Can Use

We won’t try to make a case about how love itself is the only elixir vitae humanity needs to drink from regularly to sustain itself – because the poets have got that well-covered already.

4:25PM Fri. Feb. 10, 2023 Read More | Comment »

Take a Walk on the Wild Cider

Apples and bees, right? Pretty much nature at its best – even moreso, for the drinking classes, when those components of the unfabricated world are used to create refreshing imbibables unlike any other.

7:30AM Thu. Oct. 13, 2022, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

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Booze You Can Use: A Few Choice Local Views

Okay, so not everyone wants to imbibe alcohol-centered beverages while enjoying a brief respite from the day’s cares. And of course no one has to. There’s always water or juice or maybe even, depending on how Vlad the Impaler you want to be about it, the blood of your enemies.

7:30AM Thu. Oct. 13, 2022, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Who Won the Cocktail Showdown at Hotel ZaZa?

So, yeah, there was a seven-bartender Cocktail Showdown at Hotel ZaZa recently …

12:30PM Wed. Aug. 17, 2022, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Watertrade Brings Bartender Collabs for Women's History Month

Watertrade, that intimate Japanese-style cocktail bar attached to Otoko, is running a pop-up series for Women’s History Month.

9:30AM Mon. Feb. 28, 2022, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Celebrating National Margarita Day

Yes, since Austin is the city in which Jimmy Buffet wrote “Margaritaville,” of course we’re going to party a little extra-heartily on Tuesday, February 22. We’ll even go so far as to use “party” as a verb and feel no remorse about doing that.

2:55PM Mon. Feb. 21, 2022, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Five Posh Options for Your Favorite Liquor Cabinet

We totally enjoy the basics, sure, especially when they’re of the worthiest qualities. And we’ve even become rather chummy – thanks, pandemic! – with the recent upsurge of canned cocktails in this world. But.

10:00AM Wed. Nov. 24, 2021, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Hendrick's, Hendrick's, Pickles and Gin

It started out as a joke, right? April Fool's Day – just last year, was it? – and the folks who bring the world their superlative Hendrick's Gin, they figured, hey, let's get a little, you know, cute.

9:00AM Wed. Nov. 10, 2021, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

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