There could be worse places for an Irishman to get a sunburn than the French Riviera…

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My puny glass of Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc pales in comparison to Kat’s afternoon beer.

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The alarm went off too damn early.  Way, way too early. If the jet lag didn’t get us the night before, the vino would follow up with the one-two punch.  It was time to leave Paris.  After four nights, we were headed to the Loire Valley (see photo slideshow below). We made our way through […]

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Escargots on our pizza?  Why yes, yes we will.

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What do you get when you mix jet lag, Quasimodo and Belgian beer all into a baguette?  Well, it would probably look something like this… Just before we packed up our bags to move on to our next journey, we made a little ode to the city of Paris.  

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Sacre bleu!  Having a Heineken at the Sacre Cour!

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Just stumbled across this strange radio tower in Paris

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Houston, the Eagle has landed.  Where is this? First right answer wins a glass of absinthe.

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It’s on.

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The knives are being sharpened.  The glasses polished.  The joints taped up.  And the shit-talking practiced. On Monday, March 14th at 7:00 pm, 28 guests will sit down to a communal table at Hearth restaurant where history will be made.  And YOU can be there to determine which beverage reigns supreme in it’s food-pairing prowess. […]

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Human excess.  Sheer spectacle.  The “world’s largest,” the “world’s most expensive,” the “world’s prettiest,” the “world’s _____.”  Yep, you get it.  Bring on the superlatives, people, cause it’s Vegas, baby, Vegas. After being oddly obsessed with it since my childhood—I mean have you seen ‘Bugsy’?  Yowza, that on-screen romance between Warren Beatty and Annette Bening […]

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Saw this going around the internet over the weekend and finally hit the play button.  I was well-rewarded. Three cheers to the mastermind behind this one.  Apparently it’s the trailer for a recently-released short film called Las Palmas. I’ll be first in line when it triumphantly washes up on American shores.  Premiere at the Ziegfeld?

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Forget wine. Forget beer. They’re mere newbies in the world of fermented beverages. Mead is the patriarch, the original, the granddaddy that launched the human fascination with alcohol. But, strangely enough, it’s fallen out of fashion. How could this be? This was the drink of Aristotle and the Ancient Greeks; the drink of the brave […]

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You better hydrate.  You best have a gang of food in your belly.  Your mind must be focused and your palate on-point.  Cause you’re going to get slaughtered…with a smile on your face. Hold on to your hats, craft beer geeks, because the hurricane-force winds have finally died down, and BrewYork #7 has gone down […]

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Nothing beats a trip back from the humming whir of slot machines than slipping into a warm embrace of a Tripel.  It’s Monday, kids.  Time to pour yourselves into the womb of Belgian Beer Blowout Ballzout Bonanza Night.

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