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Daddy Philosophy: Old Gods Do It Better

So as I woke up on this holiday Monday, to the punishment of the bright-light of the blazing summer sun, head-pounding from partaking a bit too much of the drink during last-nights festivities, and at times like this I wonder why I do this to myself. The answer is probably not what you’d expect. It’s…

Memoirs: Cigars For Every Meal

Ok so this is a challenge post. For the first time in my life I smoked three cigars in a single day so you don’t have to…And I certainly wouldn’t recommend it, unless you got some years under your belt, or at least a full bottle of whiskey(Wisers FTW). So almost a week ago my…

Tasting Notes: Romeo y Julieta #2

It is a great and glorious future that we live in. A few weeks ago I made a purchase of fine Cuban cigars via a gray-market international distributor who shall remain nameless. It arrived today and it’s exactly everything I’d hoped it would be. Being a first time clandestine internet cigar buyer I felt I…

Tasting Notes: Nickel Brook Head Stock

As we are faced with unseasonably warm temperatures in the North for this far too brief time I felt that a beer post was in order, being the venerated May 2-4, an obscure backwoods Canadian tradition of drinking beer in honour of Queen Victoria, for the freeing of our people from bondage. It is in…

Tasting Notes: Quintero Brevas

So I recently traveled back to Cuba on a mission to refill my humidor. It was sorely bare, having only a single Cohiba Esplendido(reviewed here) and a couple of Guantanamera Decimos(not even worthy of review) left over from a box of 10 that my father-in-law grabbed me from Cuba back in December…A sad state of affairs…

Gourmet Style: Ultimate Umame Meatloaf

So as much as I have been into other things lately, it strikes me that I haven’t done a recipe post in what seems like forever. Part of that; of course; is that no matter the lengths that I go to, the best I can hope for is a “mmmmm!” from my toddler and an…

So You Wanna: Drink Whisky

So maybe you already enjoy a fine dram of the water of life; and it wouldn’t surprise me if you do, but perhaps you are just a little bit confused about the whole thing. Is it spelled ‘whisky’ or ‘whiskey’? Well both actually. What about Bourbon, Scotch or Rye is there a difference? Blended vs….

Tasting Notes: Cohiba Esplendidos

A few weeks back I attended my best friends wedding, through the fog of the end of the festivities I seem to hazily recall that we had reached a point where cigars were being passed out, though I was hardly in any shape to enjoy a fine cigar. Even besotted so, something had looked to…

Tasting Notes: Holsten Festbock

So summer is finally here, and as the temperature in the north begin to creep up to somewhat near pleasant, for those few brief months of warmth each year, and you’d probably develop quite a thirst as you survey the early summer landscape. So today after a pleasure walk to the local ale vendory I…

Gourmet Style: Dragon-fire Oil

Do you like to spice things up? Are you hard-core? Perhaps you’re even a real chili-head; and it actually would surprise me if you were; maybe you even know what a Carolina Reaper is, or maybe you think Jalapeno is a walk on the wild side…If you like to know for 45 mins afterward that…