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  The Last Sip of Summer

  25 August, 2012 | Liquid | Luke ONeil

  Some of the best discoveries come about accidentally: penicillin, Play-Doh, Post-it Notes, and Popsicles, to name a few that all begin with P for some reason. But all of these pale in comparison to th…

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  Quick Summery

  27 July, 2012 | Liquid | Luke ONeil

  We love a nice summery drink when we’re sipping on the beach, double-fisting at barbecues, or hanging on the front porch as much as the next guy in jorts. But for many of us, it’s during the colder, d…

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  Raising the bar

  09 July, 2012 | Liquid | Luke ONeil

  We spent a lot of time in Boston’s nightlife venues “researching” for the Music issue this month — and while the music was predictably top-notch, the drinks were typically sub-par. It got us thinking:…

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  Slurred Words

  29 June, 2012 | Liquid | Luke ONeil

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  Boxed in

  15 June, 2012 | Liquid | Luke ONeil

  Over the last few years, you may have noticed people extolling the virtues of wine in a box. Surprising, since it was once the tacky pariah of the beverage scene. But it has since caught on and become…

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  Bartender Bingo

  03 June, 2012 | Liquid | Luke ONeil

  A few weeks ago, my behind-the-bar colleague at Temple Bar Evan Kenney was messing around with a cocktail that called for both mezcal and Fernet-Branca, two ingredients that are reliably trendy among …

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  Aging gracefully

  20 May, 2012 | Liquid | Luke ONeil

  Once upon a time, beer didn’t get a ton of respect. But now the masses are more aware of the almost-infinite varieties and styles available, and connoisseurs (the technical term, I believe, is “beer g…

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  Barreling down

  04 May, 2012 | Liquid | Luke ONeil

  The ever-broadening field of spirits on the market is hard enough to keep straight (especially once you’ve tried a few in a row). And a handful of Boston bars have been adding yet another layer of spe…

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  Shifty business

  22 April, 2012 | Liquid | Luke ONeil

  In the future, everyone will open a nano-brewery of their own. Andy Warhol said that, I think. But seriously, with all these new brewers popping up, it does seem like there’s something in the water in…

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  Nice package

  05 April, 2012 | Liquid | Luke ONeil

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  Portland ho!

  23 March, 2012 | Liquid | Luke ONeil

  Travel too far beyond Boston in search of a drink, and the bar landscape starts to look bleak. It’s like some horrific science-fiction scenario where they’ve installed time portals at city limits, war…

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  Letter from the Editor: Liquid Issue 2012

  12 March, 2012 | Letter from the Editor | Scott Kearnan

  Warning: in the spirit of our Liquid issue, I thought I’d compose this letter while having a few sips myself. What follows may therefore vacillate wildly between overstated enthusiasm and unexpected m…

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  Buzz words

  12 March, 2012 | Liquid | Luke ONeil

  Have we mentioned that cocktail lists are getting more complicated than ever? Someone should write about that. Savvy drinkers like the ones who read this column will have no doubt memorized the etymol…

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  Better boozing through chemistry: Molecular mixology shakes up Boston’s cocktail scene

  09 March, 2012 | Liquid | Luke ONeil

  The mixologist is dead. After a brief dalliance with that highfalutin job description, most of your better drink-makers have decided they’d rather just go back to being called bartenders. The term alw…

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  History on Tap: A stumbling tour of some of Boston’s storied watering holes

  09 March, 2012 | Liquid | Adam Tokarz

  If likened to a cocktail, the Commonwealth’s capital might be a fresh twist on an Old Fashioned. After all, Boston is a modern city that pays endless homage to its historic past (hence all those cobbl…

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  Hitting the bottle: Cambridge Brewing Company’s Beers line shelves at last

  24 February, 2012 | Liquid | Luke ONeil

  Over the past few years, the concept of micro-brewing has finally been getting attention from the casual beer drinker. But it’s old news if you’ve been a fan of Cambridge Brewing Company (1 Kendall S…

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  Sip and study: Cocktail class is in session at Art Bar and beyond

  13 February, 2012 | Liquid | Luke ONeil

  Photo: JOEL VEAKWhat's that old quote? "Mix a man a cocktail, and you'll get him buzzed for the evening; teach a man to mix his own, and you'll keep him tippling for a lifetime." (I think it's in the …

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  The odd couples

  30 January, 2012 | Liquid | Luke ONeil

  Photo: JOEL VEAKWhen we describe the way cocktail ingredients interact, it sometimes sounds like we're talking about couples. We might say two spirits "complement" or "support" each other - or, on the…

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  Getting the rum-around

  16 January, 2012 | Liquid | Luke ONeil

  Back in 2007, when Turkey Shore Distilleries president Mathew Perry first started thinking about launching a rum brand, it was a relatively novel idea. "The idea was, there's ‘local' everything, but…

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  Slumming it

  16 January, 2012 | Liquid | Luke ONeil

  Despite its name, the recently launched Somerville Brewing Company is actually coming out of Ipswich too. Though the company was born in the home-brewing nano-lab of Jeff Leiter and wife Caitlin Jew…

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