Bourbon tasting and review

SeanMike | February 26, 2008

Tonight I decided to do something perhaps stupid or perhaps lots of fun, but either way a first for me – a tasting and review. As befitting someone who loves bourbon, I thought I’d start with that.  Anthony Dias Blue’s The Complete Book of Spirits recommends doing between three and six bourbons, sipping each.  I’ll [...]

Look to the right!

SeanMike | February 26, 2008

As we continue to try to improve this blog, we’ve added yet another feature: the always-loved links list! We’ve just got ten sites on there as I speak to you, but we’re always willing to add more.  So far I’ve been adding blogs that I read regularly but if yours is cool, let us know. [...]

two surprises

SeanMike | February 22, 2008

I’m in Charlottesville today, home of UVA, the alma mater of both myself and tmfiii   . One of my traditional stops when coming to the Hook – other than stopping to buy all the crap I forgot to bring this time – is at Cavalier Pipe and Tobacco in the Barracks Road shopping center. [...]

Genever gin

SeanMike | February 20, 2008

The Washington Post had an article today about Genever gin, talking about how the author flew to Amsterdam to get more of it.  Having not had any of it, I was drooling at the descriptions of it. It helps that it appears some progress is being made on bringing it back to the States.  Jason [...]

The Blackbird

SeanMike | February 19, 2008

Though I tire, I promised I’d post – and it’s been a while since we had anything up. Coming up here soon in the Den I’m going to start doing regular liquor reviews.  Depending on how well you know me, you may or may not know that I write video game reviews for GamersInfo.net.  That’s [...]