Mutineer Magazine: Fine Beverage...Redefined

After a hard day at work it is always a delight to go to your favorite watering hole and knock back a couple drinks with your buddies. Truthfully, I can’t wait to punch out and hit up the bar for happy hour. What’s not to love about happy hour? The drinks are cheap and who doesn’t love cheap drinks? I’ll tell you who doesn’t love cheap drinks. The BRITISH. Don’t take this the wrong way, we love our readers from across the pond, but I am gonna have to bash your legislators. Continue Reading »

As a WSU Alum, I can’t help but enjoy this bit of news. Washington State University, the once championed party school, has been working to stray away from its party image for the past few years. What would be the best way to do this? Allow liquor sales on campus. That seems a bit contradictory, but I like it. WSU is going to allow liquor sales prior to football games, at golf events and at the Student Union Building. The union building is at the heart of the WSU campus and If I could have stopped by the bar in between classes I would have spent much more time around campus. Continue Reading »

According to “The Arab Tribune” of Arab, Alabama, “A Montgomery County Circuit Court has ruled that Marshall, Cullman, Blount, Dekalb and Lauderdale counties are entitled to a share of $1.3 million in back taxes generated by a statewide beer tax since 2004.” This means $150,000 for the dry counties (counties that do not sell alcohol), the same as the wet counties (counties that do sell alcohol). Continue Reading »

If you’re that guy wearing a fake Rolex from Tijuana, listening to pirated music you downloaded from the Internet, and giving your girlfriend counterfeit designer handbags you picked up in Koreatown, consider this: counterfeit vodka could cause blindness and death. Continue Reading »

This blog was inspired by a great story that ran today in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle about the rum runners of Lake Ontario. The newspaper had the ability to cite previous issues of itself dating back to 1921.

I was surprised to learn that prior to being a main route for alcohol smugglers during prohibition, Lake Ontario was a major gateway for fleeing slaves heading towards Canada. Continue Reading »

Screenshot of Heineken’s French website.

France has long been a leader in fine beverage. This has been a position of pride rather than shame, so I was surprised to hear about the temperance movement this morning while talking to Randy Resnick after recording his New Wine Consumer podcast, which can be heard at www.newwineconsumer.com. Continue Reading »

Thirteen years. That was how long Prohibition lasted in the United States as a result of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. I am thoroughly convinced that this generation could not handle it. It was a brutal war.

For example, a woman named Carrie Nation would go into saloons and start breaking bottles with a hatchet. She described herself as “a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus, barking at what he doesn’t like.” Continue Reading »