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Written by Dan Dunn Wednesday, 03 February 2010 10:02

jager_barWolfenbüttel is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, located on the Oker river near Brunswick. Devoted fans of competitive strength competitions are no doubt aware that Wolfenbüttel hosted the three day International German Bus Pulling Championships in May of 2009, but to most people Wolfenbüttel is better known as the home of the herbal liqueur Jägermeister, which in turn is better known as the stuff that kicked my ASS while I was in Wolfenbüttel.

I plan to tell you all about this adventure in the very near future. But at the moment I'm staring down the barrel of a deadline for the manuscript of my next book, tentatively titled "Living Loaded: A Life-Affirming Journey to the Depths of Humanity... with cocktails." So in the meantime, here's a never-before-seen snippet from the book...

My job/lifestyle combo is like a supermodel serial-killer -- it might look great, and be a whole lot of fun, but it will cut your throat if you take your eye off it for a second. As the poet said, writing about music is like dancing about architecture. If that’s true then what I do is like smoking crack about crack. I am a professional risk-taker. I am the king’s taster: the Medieval peasant who got to live the good life, eating a steady diet of foie gras until his luck ran out and one of the one-in-a-thousand morsels with arsenic in it landed on his plate. There’s a saying among commercial deep-sea divers that “there are old divers and there are bold divers, but there are no old, bold divers.” This profession isn’t all that different. In a heartbeat that breezy walk in the park can turn into a sprint through the fields away from a tornado.

That said, it is the best job for picking up chicks. Too bad it’s also the worst for keeping them. In fact, writing this book is only serving to underscore the central conflict of my existence – on one hand, I want nothing more than for “Living Loaded” to become a huge bestseller because I’ve found that stunningly beautiful women are prone to sleeping with famous authors.  On the other hand, if I do a truly great job at writing an unsparingly honest expose of my working life, any self-respecting woman who read it would rather date Tom Sizemore or Charlie Sheen or Eliot Spitzer before me.

Written by Dan Dunn Wednesday, 03 February 2010 09:26

keith_metzName: Keith Metz-Porozni

Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Age: 25

Where you’re from: Portland, Oregon

Where you live: Portland, Oregon

Company you work for: LANE PR

Brands repped: Widmer Bros. Brewing Co., Hood River Distillers, E&J Gallo Winery

Favorite bar: Scooter McQuade's - I'm guaranteed to loose my phone after a fishbowl of Adios Mother Fucker

Favorite drink: Widmer Bros. Drifter Pale Ale - it's a beer that snobs and Average Joes can both enjoy

Best-named cocktail of all time and why? Irish Car Bomb - The name is offensive on many levels

What’s the punchline to your favorite bar joke? So there I was, balls deep...

If you could have any famous person in history as a drinking buddy, who would it be and why? Murasaki Shikibu - after reading "The Tale of Genji" she seems like a real kick in the pants

The best thing to drink on airplanes is… water. uhhh, I mean...Broker's Gin straight up

People tell me I look like… a guy named Steve? People think I look like a Steve

In five years I hope to be… riding around on a Kawasaki Ninja 250R trying to look cool

If I could be anywhere doing anything right now, I’d be… traveling the far flung corners of the Earth

Beer or wine? Why? Beer - it costs too much to get smashed on good wine, but not on good beer.

Parting shot: There are plenty of ways to make a livin', but there ain't no better way to live

Written by Dan Dunn Wednesday, 03 February 2010 11:01
pabst-blue-ribbon-logoAs alcohol trends go, I'm ready to ramble along any old road more-or-less taken. New designer vodka? Okay -- hey, I remember when infusion seemed crazy, but it was only kinky the first time. The whole Family-O-Bourbon small-batch collection? Nice. Family values are important.

As a frequent contributor to the Imbiber website, it's important that I remain afloat in the lush culture of the American lush. But, with all due respect, I'm just not jumping onto the Blue Ribbon fad-o-rama bandwagon. Because -- what's up with that?

Portland, where I live in Maine, is famously a beer town. We have a half-dozen world class offerings and seasonal brews galore. We're even starting to get into the micro-distilled spirits and you can buy Maine vodka, but our alcohol of record is beer (it was once rum, but that's another story).

And Portland, alcohol-wise, has a special obligation to the rest of civilization. As the city where national prohibition first found favor, we carry a certain unique burden in the alcohol community -- at the very least, we should show a degree of originality. Thus, in a town where tasty locally created beer is easier to find than a parking spot -- actually, much easier -- the big trend is ... Blue Ribbon?

Read more: Trend chaser: Revisiting that old PBR express

Written by Dan Dunn Wednesday, 03 February 2010 09:50

aphrodite

Aphrodite’s Ambrosia

Ingredients:
1 part Maker's Mark
¼ part Apricot Liqueur
6 dashes Peychaud's bitters
Cold Proseco

Directions:
Stir the Maker’s Mark, Apricot Liquor and bitters with ice in a shaker glass. Strain into a champagne flute and top with the Proseco.

Written by Dan Dunn Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:02

veev_cocktailVeeV Treetini (aka a strained Eco-Mojito)

2 ounces VeeV Açaí Spirit

0.5 ounce agave nectar

4 lime wedges

6 mint leaves

Club soda

*Tear and slap mint leaves to release oils and drop into a cocktail shaker. Shake all ingredients well and strain into a chilled martini glass. Top with club soda, stir and garnish as desired.

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