May 133 minDrunk As Lords: Grad WeekGraduation Week at Sewanee is as much fun for parents as students - but beware.
Apr 152 minWhat To Drink With HamWhat wine do you drink with ham? The Italians raised the food to an art form, so why not ask them? Orveito? Chenin blanc? Hell, champagne.
Mar 313 minA Chevy, the Levee & RyeRye whiskey is hot, in cocktails and on the rocks. Enjoy it before the terminally hip make it insufferable.
Mar 163 minDon't Drink Green BeerSt. Patrick's Day have never seen such Irish whiskey! Lose the green beer and toast the Emerald Isle with a glass of the good stuff.
Mar 19 minGumbo Ya-YaIt's Mardi Gras the willful Un-American celebration that could only happen in America.
Jan 261 minOn Drinking EtiquetteAny activity that, by design, makes you take leave of your senses needs to have some established, external ground rules.
Jan 211 minOn Booze SnobsA wine snob, a liquor snob and a beer snob walk into a bar... who sends you screaming to the bathroom?
Jan 111 minHem & Fitz: The Thirsty MuseHemingway and Fitzgerald celebrated booze in their work. Was it the muse or the demon that cratered their talent?
Dec 21, 20211 minOn 21st Century BeerBeer has evolved for thousands of years. For American beer drinkers, most of it in the last 30 years.
Dec 7, 20217 minCrapulus SumThe one Latin phrase I learned at Christian Brothers High School that has stuck with me over the years is "Crapulous Sum": I’m Wasted.
Dec 7, 20211 minOn Drunk As LordsOn the podcast we discuss the book, it's evolution, Bob Newhart's eyes, essays that shouldn't get published and how drinking got hardwired i
Nov 24, 20214 minIt's Not a Holiday, It's an Endurance RaceYou’ve had better than ten months to detox from last year's grueling holiday endurance course of parties and good cheer. Here we go again.
Nov 24, 20216 minAmerica's First Lousy NeighborhoodThomas Morton went native. Imagine Heart of Darkness if Joseph Conrad described Kurtz as quick with a drink and good with the ladies.
Nov 16, 20211 minCreative Mixology #1On the Podcast we discuss the inspiration for new cocktails along with some bloody failures.
Oct 28, 20214 minT'was Pussy What Done ItGin Mania, William and Mary's Famine Relief and that damned pussy...