125 Long Island Ice Teas – The Journey

Let it be known that while the amazifying and momentous Snuggie Bar Crawl was occuring two weekends ago, another momentous accomplishment was in the making at Don’t Know Tavern. See, a friend of mine who happens to be on one of the best trivia teams on Earth had in his possession a certificate for half […]

Award Winning Mixologist

I’m taking this award and running with it. Running. With. It. If bacon vodka can win an award, then surely the jasmine tea and cucumber vodka (made for the semi-annual Midnight Sun happy hour) that everyone seemed to enjoy could bring additional success, if not profit. Which unfortunately is currently impossible legally – so far. […]

The Fort Avenue Snuggie bar crawl recap

(Dr. Sam Sessa has graciously printed this recap in his wicked popular blog Midnight Sun, as hosted by The Baltimore Sun) Let it be known that the Snuggie Bar Crawl may or may not have been the best bar crawl in Baltimore history, but it was certainly the best bar crawl that Fort Avenue has […]

The 5th Annual Max’s Belgian Beer Fest Roundup

When I first read of the (then) upcoming Belgian Beer Fest at Max’s Taphouse a few months ago, I was pretty much instantly excited. The image of a beer festival with Belgian beers the likes of which I had never heard of, much less seen got my imagination flowing. One of the bartenders I know […]

*BARF*…I mean, let me try that

Whilst engaged in an online discussion regarding gross soft drinks, the usual suspects of seasonal Mountain Dew flavors versus Mr. Pibb XTREME were thrown around, until someone dropped a big, fat, curious bombshell: Yes friends, if your eyes are working properly you are seeing the same thing that I did; the unholy union of Budweiser […]

The Bacon Vodka Chronicles – pt. 3 OMEGA

After allowing the bacon vodka to sit for 4 days, half of which was spent refrigerated, it becomes time to filter all of the horrible fat globules and as much of the debris out of the mix as possible. For this, we start with some easily obtained cheesecloth (or in my case, “tear cloth” obtained […]