For St. Patrick’s Day, there is green beer .. but is there green wine? There certainly is.
Nestled in the foothills of the Sierra Mountains, Irish Vineyards of Murphys, California has been producing their “Slainte” since 2004. Slainte is 100% Viognier but Irish uses certified food coloring in order to get the green coloring in their wine that one typically associates with beer on St. Patrick’s Day. For those hesitant to try food colored wine, they should know that the coloring does not add any flavor to the wine and it is still a great Viognier, just a bit more festive!
To stay with the St. Patrick’s Day theme, bottles are priced at $17 each and it is released in limited amounts beginning in February and it will usually sell out over the St. Patrick’s Day weekend.
For those in Murphys and the Calaveras County area this weekend, I suggest stopping in Murphys for their annual Murphys Irish Day this Saturday March 19th starting at 10. Main Street will be shut down and full of food, crafts, wine, beer, etc., as the people of Murphys celebrate their Celtic heritage.
The Mutineers will be at Murphys Irish Day in full force and we hope to see you there!
Folks get pretty geeked up about green on St. Patrick’s Day. People everywhere knock back copious amounts of green beer, and it’s even a tradition in Chicago to dye the Chicago River green. To be honest, I’d rather drink Chicago River water than most of the beer that gets turned green. If you’re going to wake up with a hangover on Thursday, why not get what you paid for? Why not get stuck into things that are green all year round. Here is a list of true green liqueurs and recipes for each. Continue Reading »
Things got pretty crazy in New York this past Saturday at Zane Patrick’s Day at the Knitting Factory. The presence of Mutineer Magazine was felt on the “green carpet” as we sponsored the event and the photo area. We interviewed Zane about the event a couple of weeks ago, and that can be read here. Check out a couple of the photos from the event below.
Photo not of actual riot.
The AP reports, “Cars were torched, firefighters attacked and police bombarded in mayhem spawned by dusk-to-dawn drinking on St. Patrick’s Day, Irish authorities said Wednesday. Authorities were still assessing the damage from inebriated revelers who turned some districts of Dublin and Belfast into nightmares.” Continue Reading »
Once again St. Patrick’s day is upon us and I have a feeling not many people know exactly what this holiday is about other than everyone claiming they’re Irish, getting either sexually harassed or pinched depending on how you look at it, and people getting belligerently drunk and throwing up behind their friends’ couch. I’d like to say it wasn’t always this way and there was a time when men could sit down amongst their buddies for a few brews and just enjoy themselves, but apparently this wasn’t the case. One newspaper described the St. Patrick’s Day scene in 1847 as “drunkenness, riot, and disorder prevailed to an extent which was frightful to contemplate.” It became such an issue that the people fought, and won, to get it changed from a beer-crazed festival into a puritan Sunday and in 1924 all public houses closed on the national holiday; a law that wouldn’t be reversed until the early 1960’s. Continue Reading »
This March 14 at the Knitting Factory in New York City, things will be getting crazy with Zane Lamprey’s Zane Patrick’s Day. We asked Zane what we can expect at the party, and here is what he had to say: Continue Reading »
