Best Product Description: “Icelandic Beer Made From Smoked Whale Testicles”. Really. “We started last year with our first whale beer, Hvalur 1. The health department didn’t want us to produce it at first, but we were allowed to. The beer used whale meal as an ingredient, and it was something new for Iceland. It sold …
Tag: Drinking
Scotch
I love single malts. Not everybody does.
New Year at the Spur
Our annual tradition: seeing out the year at the Golden Spur Saloon. A selection: House band: manager Monana Pettis and chef Linda Rael, heading up the ever- evolving 86’d Again, offer up a stomping rock version of Folsom Prison Blues: (It is a matter of being a local I suppose– it had to be pointed …
Friend’s Adventures, Urban and Rural
Patrick Porter’s survival kit for Sandy, in Natick, MA: Cole Brooks, Malcolm’s* son, takes his first elk in Montana: “… kid drew a lottery cow elk tag for this week. Second day out at 3 in the afternoon we hiked up the side of a ridge where we’d spotted cows the evening before. I walked …
Vodka from our Mongolian “Home Town”
Lauren brought among other things (like eagle tack I have never seen– be patient!) a bottle of new vodka named after the capitol of Mongolia’s Kazakh “Aimag” or state, therefore the de facto “Berkutchi” capitol. The back is attractive enough, with a Berkutchi painted on it (all photos enlarge if clicked on): But the front …