Results for: dipsology

Want a Million Bucks? All You Need Is a Banana, Duct Tape, and a Wall
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/11/17/want-a-million-bucks-all-you-need-is-a-banana-duct-tape-and-a-wall-n2182121
–  See Related: Dipsology: Beyond the Basics – I Don’t Know Much About Art, but I Know What I DrinkBrad writes:A prime example…
Dipsology: Beyond the Basics – I Don’t Know Much About Art, but I Know What I Drink
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2024/10/11/dipsology-beyond…i-dont-know-much-about-art-but-i-know-what-i-drink-n2180451
– There were some melodramatics at a museum in the Netherlands this week. Panic erupted at the LAM Museum in Lusse, Holland, when one of their artworks turned up missing. After an anxiety-filled search, they came to discover the work in a garbage bin and gratefully found that it had not...
DIPSOLOGY Beyond the Basics: Are Alcoholics Offended by Cartoon Depictions? Disney Believes So…
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2024/07/31/dipsology-beyond…s-offended-by-cartoon-depictions-disney-believes-so-n2177594
– The Disney Company has shown over the years to be a particularly woke-prone enterprise, as they both push agendas of an activist bent while also seeking to scrub their history of items and content deemed offensive by today’s woke standards. This has led to decisions that are sometimes expected and...
Dipsology: Beyond the Basics - for the 4th, the Food and Frivolity of Our Founders
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2024/06/30/dipsology-beyond…for-the-4th-the-food-and-frivolity-of-our-founders-n2176196
– As we get set for this week’s celebration of our country’s birthday, it is a wonderful time to look back and appreciate how the crafters of our founding documents celebrated, consumed and imbibed in their era. The food and drink of colonial times are not always top of mind as...
Dipsology: Beyond the Basics - Proposing We Eat Bugs Is Bad Enough, Now Breweries Are Making Cicada Brews
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2024/06/09/dipsology-beyond…is-bad-enough-now-breweries-are-making-cicada-brews-n2175255
– There is a cycle in the press when new ideas from the left emerge: Their daft proposals get reported on, then there is a reaction or backlash from the right, and next the press responds with mock offense by suggesting conservatives created a conspiracy that does not exist, finishing then...
Dipsology: Beyond the Basics - Another Woke Brewery Disaster Took Place in New Orleans but Few Noticed
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2024/05/22/dipsology-beyond…disaster-took-place-in-new-orleans-but-few-noticed-n2174519
– In the next couple of weeks, a fire sale will be taking place. It is a not-uncommon event, especially in the current economy; a failed business venture selling off its assets, hoping to recoup some of the losses before shuttering completely, is becoming all too common. That this involves a...
Dipsology: Beyond the Basics—Are We Celebrating the Wrong Saint on St. Patrick's Day?!
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2024/03/16/dipsology-beyond…e-we-celebrating-the-wrong-saint-on-st-patricks-day-n2171481
– Okay, right from the start, the rhetoric in the headline is just that. I mean, Patty has the day named after him, after all, so no - it is not a misnomer. But still, given the ritualistic imbibing taking place this weekend, there is another possibly more worthy figure for...
Dipsology: Beyond the Basics - With Beer Sales Flat, Brewers' Problems Are Coming to a Head
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2024/02/29/dipsology-beyond…r-sales-flat-and-what-problems-are-coming-to-a-head-n2170776
– A certain beer company experienced something deeply revealing in the weeks after the Super Bowl. Following a number of feature placement commercials during the game, and a 4th quarter spot involving the return of the iconic Clydesdales, Bud Light sales managed to take a dip in the days after the...
Dipsology: Beyond the Basics: Lending Some Polite Clarity on Cordials
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2024/01/31/dipsology-beyond-the-basics-lending-some-polite-clarity-on-cordials-n2169465
– As a way of fighting off the cold, or battling the winter doldrums, it is a fine time to tap into the spirit of the tropics as a tonic. Why not divert your angst for a spell with some jaunty, flashy distractions in a glass? If you are to enter...
Dipsology: Beyond the Basics - Champagne Variations to Ring in a New Year…or Soothe Tomorrow’s Head
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2023/12/31/dipsology-beyond…tions-to-ring-in-a-new-yearor-soothe-tomorrows-head-n2168125
– For many of us, the 3st will mean a form of celebrating in one form or another, usually with a crowd, and most likely involving at least one midnight tipple of the celebratory drink, champagne (or one of the legally mandated varieties like “sparkling wine”). This has been the case...
Dipsology: Beyond the Basics - Your Guests Will Be Grateful for These Holiday Egg Nog Cocktails
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2023/11/22/dipsology-beyond…ill-be-grateful-for-these-holiday-egg-nog-cocktails-n2166684
– As the holiday season arrives it becomes time for holiday potables to emerge. Thanksgiving ushers in the period when unique concoctions arrive with robust spices and ingredients not normally used throughout the rest of the calendar. One sign of the times is when grocery store dairy sections clear out...
Dipsology: Beyond the Basics - What Is Behind Biden’s 'Alcohol Czar' Limiting Us to Two Beers a Week?!
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2023/08/27/dipsology-beyond…bidens-alcohol-czar-limiting-us-to-two-beers-a-week-n2163115
– As Ward Clark covered this week, the Daily Mail reported it spoke with President Biden’s Alcohol Czar, Dr. George Koob, and he was poised to come out with a new set of health standards that would limit Americans' consumption of alcohol. This new 2-beers-a-week standard is what most of us call...
Dipsology: Beyond the Basics – Honoring the Bounty of Jimmy Buffett With Boat Drinks
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2023/09/21/dipsology-beyond…onoring-the-bounty-of-jimmy-buffet-with-boat-drinks-n2164133
– I am going to admit to a bit of lingering melancholy over the passing of America’s tropical troubadour, Jimmy Buffett. It is not so much a sadness as it is anticipating an absence. As I mentioned in the tribute the day following his passing, here in my sector of Florida,...
Dipsology, Beyond the Basics: What Is Behind This Significant Shift in the Drinking Culture?
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2023/09/30/dipsology-beyond…hind-this-significant-shift-in-the-drinking-culture-n2164512
– The last few years were filled with upheaval for the brewing and liquor industry. As has been the case for most sectors of the economy the pandemic had sweeping impacts, and the beer & liquor markets have been no different. The closures of most establishments for months at a time...
Dipsology: Beyond the Basics – Drinking Your Breakfast; Review of Eggo ‘Brunch in a Jar’
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2023/10/08/dipsology-beyond…nking-your-breakfast-review-of-eggo-brunch-in-a-jar-n2164803
– There is always a quest to come up with new materials in the spirits world. Go to any major liquor store and peruse the liquor aisles, and you are likely to come across new flavors, taste combinations, or fortified variations on familiar foodstuffs. While these attempts can veer from the...
Dipsology Beyond The Basics: Racing Thoroughbreds and Sipping Corn — The Derby Means Bourbon
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2021/04/30/dipsology-beyond…oroughbreds-and-sipping-corn-the-derby-means-bourbon-n371531
– Welcome to one of the new cultural features here at RedState. The Tavern is open. Tomorrow is the Run For The Roses which, coming off of a scrambled racing season due to the pandemic, is making its traditional return to the first Saturday in May. Running for nearly 150...
The Foolhardy Oscars Predictions for the 93rd Academy Awards
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2021/04/25/the-foolhardy-oscars-predictions-for-the-93rd-academy-awards-n368782
– See Also – The RedState Dipsology Forum: Award-Winning Cocktails for Your Oscars Party “Lower Culture With Becca Lower” Podcast…
The RedState Dipsology Forum: Award-Winning Cocktails for Your Oscars Party
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2021/04/23/the-redstate-dips…forum-award-winning-cocktails-for-your-oscars-party-n367325
– Welcome to one of the new cultural features here at RedState. The Tavern is open. This will be an ongoing venture where hopefully you can be challenged to expand your potables experience by breaking out of the norms and experimenting for the sake of experiencing. One of the facts...
Dipsology: Beyond The Basics — a Look at the Bitter History of the American Cocktail
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2021/05/07/dipsology-beyond…oking-at-the-bitter-history-of-the-american-cocktail-n376221
– Brad’s column, “Dipsology: Beyond the Basics” is part of that effort and will soon be a RedState VIP exclusive – with the exception…
Dipsology: Beyond the Basics -- The Mystique of the Martini
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2021/05/14/dipsology-beyond-the-basics-the-mystique-of-the-martini-n380082
– “Dipsology: Beyond the Basics” is part of that effort as a RedState VIP exclusive.…
Paul Ryan Had Some Thoughts on the Future of the Republican Party—Did Anybody Stay Awake?
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2021/05/28/paul-ryan-had-som…uture-of-the-republican-party-did-anybody-stay-awake-n388092
– Could be he’s been indulging in too much Dipsology, like his friend Boehner.…
Dipsology: Beyond The Basics -- The Commie Cocktail in the Copper Cup, The Moscow Mule
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2021/05/28/dipsology-beyond…he-commie-cocktail-in-the-copper-cup-the-moscow-mule-n387961
– “Dipsology: Beyond the Basics” is part of that effort as a RedState VIP exclusive. …
Dipsology - Beyond The Basics: Tearing Down Regulations and Rebuilding the Craft Beer Market in 2021
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2021/05/21/dipsology-beyond…lations-and-rebuilding-the-craft-beer-market-in-2021-n384300
– As the country recovers from the pandemic we can aid in the recovery of the craft beer industry. Running up until last Saturday, we just enjoyed National Craft Beer Week, a welcomed respite from the dismal social cloud we have all been shaded under and a needed boost for...
Dipsology - Beyond The Basics: Tiki Is Not Just Cocktails, but a Culture
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2021/06/18/dipsology-beyond-the-basics-tiki-is-not-just-cocktails-but-a-culture-n398815
– Don the floral shirt, pop on the sunglasses, and grab your favorite mug — it is Tiki time. One of the lasting trends that has endured in this country is the flashy, opulent, lush, garish, and outright fun experience that is Tiki Culture. Involving various elements from various locations...
Dipsology - Beyond The Basics: Arguing Against IPAs
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2021/06/11/dipsology-beyond-the-basics-arguing-against-ipas-n395189
– Years ago — in another era when life was yet to be sullied by things like terrorism, wokeness, and governmental “protections” — I was able to make a visit onboard a British destroyer. There was a military event staged at Port Everglades and the general public was permitted to tour...
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