In the beginning, there was beer. As a rebellious, newly legal-age drinker, I refused to drink the brand of beer my father drank. In my young mind, it carried the stigma of dad beer; budget-friendly, old-fashioned swill drunk by pot-bellied, blue-collar, middle-aged men. Instead I headed out to the local store to buy my own six-pack.
Author Archives: J Reilly
How I Spent My Summer
Labor Day weekend reminds me of going back to school and the inevitable assignment of writing an essay about how I spent my summer. If I were writing about our first two summers in South Jersey, I’d be telling you about lots of great beaches and beach towns with different vibes, from the Victorian charmContinueContinue reading “How I Spent My Summer”
Pairing Food and Wine, or Not
The Boozy Lifestyle goal is to avoid gastronomic catastrophe. There are some excellent books on pairing if you’re interested in a painstaking journey into balancing the flavors of food with the perfect wine
Recommending Wines
A lady walks into a liquor store and asks for a bottle of wine with a dog on the label. No, this isn’t the beginning of a “girl walks into a bar” joke. A customer asked us to find this bottle amidst the 1200 wines in the store. After a bit of sleuthing (white or red helped narrow the field) and realizing that the dog was actually a fox, we identified her Foxhorn Merlot.
Tales of the Liquor Store: How Did We Get Here?
When I walk into a wine shop, I’m like a kid in a candy store, so buying a liquor store seemed like a good idea at the time.
Liquor Store Shopping: Before And After Covid-19
How my liquor store wanderlust was replaced with an efficient personal shopper and car loading service.
Hendrick’s vs. Bombay Sapphire: Gin Throwdown
Tasting gin – Hendrick’s small batch hand-crafted and Bombay Sapphire London Dry.
Socially Distant Distractions
In typical Boozy Lifestyle fashion, while other folks were hording toilet paper, we were raiding the liquor store. We succumbed to the panic mentality and, admittedly, overbought on the last trip; enough for a party! Unfortunately, in keeping with social distancing rules, we can’t invite anyone to attend.
What’s A Throwdown?
The concept of tasting edibles side by side is a more precise way to compare the subtleties of flavor that may be missed if consumed on different days.
Cork vs. Screw Cap
A good wine server will open the bottle with showmanship, deftly plying his corkscrew like a sculptor wielding his chisel.
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