January 2012
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Magic Hat #9
Apple Pie, Baseball, and helping friends move. There are few things more traditionally “American” one might argue. (Unless you want to yell, debate talk politics in 2012 and then shhh, shhh, I can’t hear you right now…) And when you do help your friends move, your payment does not just come in the form of goodwill, an exercised core and getting to see all their stuff in...
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Old Fashioned
“History is all around us, you see.” he leaned forward on the bar, drink in hand. “This place, the booze, that dame. It’s all got history. Do you ever get the feeling life is just flying by and you’re not taking full advantage of it? Well do you?” His date relaxed her slender fingers around her drink, tucking her porcelain chin into her dress collar like the...
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Chardonnay
Maybe its the suburbanite in me, but I love faux-industry big box restaurants just as much as a high-end-top-chef-four-star dining or a solid hotdog at the ballpark. I’m an equal rights foodie through and through. So snicker if you must at my choice of the Macaroni Grill for trying my first drink of chardonnay, but it worked for me. Plus, free bread & olive oil, people. Free bread...
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Yuengling Lager
Virgin: “It’s quite sour.” The table: “You mean bitter.” Virgin: “Yeah, it’s kinda bitter too, but I mean sour.” The table: “Yeah, you’re wrong. But ok.” If you’re not from the eastern Midwest to east coast area, you might not even know about Yuengling beer. In short, it’s a Pennsylvania beer, that just happens to...
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Amaretto Sour
I kinda get it now. See, I’ve never, ever just gone to a local bar, actually sat at the bar, ordered a drink and then just hung out there watching sports on the flat screens. Or chatted with the bartender, eating happy hour wings, just blowing off a solid hour. It was a really nice time. I’m not going to over-romanticize this experience mind you, but I met a couple of cool local...
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Corona w/ lime
During my sophomore year in college, one of the dorms had a mixer in their great room that was sponsored by Corona. The room was huge and looked like the Caribbean section of the party supply story threw up on itself. Fake parrots and all. And they filled the entire room with sand. That is correct. I don’t know square footage x volume mathematics, but it was like, a shitload of sand. The...
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Moscato Wine
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that moscato is a lady wine. If for nothing else because just about every lady I know, when hearing I was drinking moscato last night, cheered me on with a variation of “that’s my favorite wine!” But I digress. Every Thursday we have our friends Rochee & Dorianne over for dinner and terrible tv. So this Thursday seemed like a good...
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Sangria Blanca
If you read my 2nd blog on my first mimosa, then just know that everything I said about Brunch in DC is basically the exact same for Happy Hour in DC. If you’ve never done HH in DC then you’ve only just gotten cheap drinks and discounted finger food. You might as well have been at an Applebees. Yes, I went there. But in all seriousness, Happy Hour in DC is pretty much exactly what...
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Vodka & Soda water
It’s an extremely simple first drink, the night however, was a bit more complicated. Happy Eastern Orthodox Christmas, everyone celebrating! Hosted by friends Alex and Cat, we were invited to a spirited Russian Christmas party where the borscht and vodka would be freely flowing. I was actually looking forward to this drink because originally it was going to contain tonic. I love tonic. I...
Bud Light
At first it was so much nicer than I expected it to be, almost enjoyable. But by the fourth sip I wanted to be f’ing done. I wanted a Sprite. So the evening was all set. Joe and I headed over to our weekly dinner at our cousin’s Chris & Natalie and they were prepared to make dinner for my first beer—a classic starter beer—Bud Light. We had rustic grilled cheeses with...
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Mimosa
Brunch mimosa. You see, I’m originally from the Midwest and for the most part, “brunch” is just a tactic to sell eggs and hamburgers on the menu of places where they’re open on a Sat/Sun around 11am and it a bit late for breakfast but not quite lunch for grandparents, families, truckers and cranky teens. Otherwise, it’s not that big of a deal. If you’re from...
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Champagne
“Oh my, the bubbles are going straight to my head!” - Every girl in a movie & on tv. “I’ll stick with gin. Champagne is just ginger ale that knows somebody.” - Hawkeye from M*A*S*H* For my very first drink in this new Adventure, I’ve learned that one of these quotes are real. And its not the one I had hoped for. I’m not going to lie, all my life I was under the very real impression that...
