Two wannabe pirates tried to pillage a boat in Gloucester harbor and ended up getting arrested. Two men, identified as Scott Stanton of Gloucester and Steven Jette of Ipswich by WBZ-TV, climbed onto the boat fom their own ship and woke the owner. They fled after threatening the owner, who called the Coast Guard who contacted Gloucester police. Police found the suspects' ship as is displayed a Jolly Roger flag. The men were charged with breaking and entering, threatening to commit a crime and intimidation of a witness.
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Results tagged “cocktails”
What sort of mixed beverage could serve as a metaphor for the current state of the union?
"Oregon pinot noir and Four Loko, about one part of the former and four of the latter."
Brutal shaking is essential to the construction of many proper cocktails and, as an added bonus, makes bartenders make faces. Combier Liqueur d'Orange has invited Boston's mixologists to show off their best "shaker faces" at the Franklin Cafe in Southie (152 Dorchester Ave.) from 7 to 10 pm this evening. The public is invited to gawk at displays of liquor-agitating prowess and partake of the drink specials that so endear the Franklin Southie to us.
Today is National Punch Day. Bostonist isn't sure why or by whose decree, but we're told that it'll be properly observed at Green Street in Central Square, Cambridge. The Punch Party starts at 9 pm this evening, with $4 glasses of punch containing Bols Genever.
Tonight at the Franklin Southie, you're invited to show your support for the Nineteenth Amendment (and your implicit disdain for the Eighteenth) with delicious & affordable cocktails featuring Bols Genever and St-Germain elderflower liqueur. Never mind that prohibition and women's suffrage went hand-in-hand: Ladies United For The Preservation of Endangered Cocktails is doing their best to make up for that. [Facebook]
- Tipsy Cocktail Stirrers combine four garnishes into one very long garnish. You might see it as an all-purpose solution, but Bostonist sees it as a challenge: can we outdo this thing with some sort of garnish turducken? Lemogerkolinionento, a pimento-stuffed onion crammed in an olive, jammed into a gerkin, ensconed by a lemon peel. It wouldn't go with much, so you'd have to just cover it with some nondescript vodka and call it the Lemongerkolinionentotini. [The Kitchn]
Five of Boston's ascendent bartenders shook, stirred, muddled, ignited, danced, and sang their cocktails.
Holla from New Orleans in the midst of Tales of the Cocktail spirits festival! Just to mix things up (no pun intended, I swear), here's some food pr0n to offset all that liquidishness. Let's fling the baby into the swimming pool and let the kurobuta BLT at Cochon Butcher do the honors.
A ferocious first day of seminars, tastings and a cow bell or two. It's a three-hundred-ring circus in New Orleans for Tales of the Cocktail. fueled by a near-comprehensive diet of adrenaline, camaraderie and whichever delightful rum punch is within earshot. Plus, the Boston crew? Unstoppable.
In a torrid haze of summer heat, po' boys up to here and true exhilaration of a spirits industry reunion, Tales of the Cocktail is officially in full swing.
I must grapple with the formidable truth. In less than 48 hours, I will be bleary-eyed and strapped into a plane, heading straight into the luscious maw of New Orleans' gincredible cocktail orgy--otherwise known as Tales of the Cocktail. An international frenzy of bartenders, mixologists, historians, authors, chefs, brand ambassadors and those who find vintage punchbowls absolutely irresistible will descend upon the French Quarter for the 8th year in a row, with vests and ice bags and painstakingly perfected homemade bitters. As ToTC spins it, "Each year offers a spirited series of dinners, demos, tastings, competitions, seminars, book signings, tours and parties all perfectly paired with some of the best cocktails ever made."
If you have your tea party outfit all tailored up and ready to go, you might want to put it to good use before the big protest next Wednesday. And what better way to practice for a tea party than with a little pub crawl? The group of belligerent dunks you're sure to encounter as you pitter-patter your 19th century–attired self around near Landsdowne and Faneuil may overlap in identity and tendencies with the group of belligerent conservatives sure to be found at the Common for Sarah Palin's appearance there on Wednesday. But perhaps, upon discussion, pub crawlers and tea partiers can come to terms based on a mutual affection for an era when fashion was fussy and liberty ran rampant—for, uh, some people.
-- Believe it or not, some people think it's stupid to pay $500 for a "season pass" to a bar... [The Lead Graf]
Beer is good for you. Soft drinks will kill you. We've been saying this all along, but now it's been translated into British: "Topflight boffins have discovered that the swilling of pop is a fantastically unhealthy thing to do." So, "quaff a tankard of ale instead."
Davis may have its pizza problems, but soon the square will be better equipped than ever to drink those problems away. Boston Shaker opens today at noon at 69 Holland Street, offering up all the fancy fixin's needed to create fabulous cocktails. From Hawthorn strainers (those funny ones with the coil around the rim) to celery bitters to cherrywood muddlers to cocktail elements you didn't know existed, the Boston Shaker will have enough boozing implements to keep you blissful for a decade.
America drinks cheaper spirits, wine from kegs, and cocktails that change color. Bartenders fret about Angostura bitters, measuring cups, and the legality of raw eggs.
Carl Sutton and his formidable moustache are in town to help you taste the freshest vermouth you can get without chamomile-infusing it yourself.
Rachel Maddow on political cocktails, and Josey Packard on the Rachel Maddow Show.
“And remember, martinis do not contain vodka.”
Holiday libations and gifts for your favorite drunkards.
Chuck Bass has opened a speakeasy (on television). Is the speakeasy is over (for real)?
Tiki, with its "exotic" beverages and fashions, is how the 1950s imagined the faraway tropics and, back in the day, Bostonians seeking to escape the onslaught of wintry mix patronized "Polynesian" establishments serving up high-proof tropical fantasy. Bostonist talked to president Hanky Panky and spokesbroad Pink Lady about their annual charity shindig.
When life gives you beer cartons, make beer carton libraries.
Bostonist had heard all sorts of things blamed for the shortage of this cocktail staple: bottling mishaps, distribution issues, politics, and, shaking a fist in the direction of Brooklyn, the recent fad of formulating beverages that contain whole ounces of bitters per serving.
We were already wary of the suffix -tini, and now it's been combined with Twitter.
Have you ever mistaken a sommelier for a pro wrestler?
Gin distiller Desmond Payne is responsible for Beefeater and its fancy new offspring Beefeater 24. How told us how tea got in his gin, confesses a love of the Negroni, and makes us want "Monday Gin."