Browsing Category "Bars, Booze, Beer, Etc."
Bourbon Street: Classy!

Avoiding Death and STDs on Bourbon Street

By     |    May 17, 2012
Posted in: Bars, Booze, Beer, Etc., Louisiana     |    4 Comments

Bourbon Street, the flagship street of New Orleans, is pretty disgusting. Firstly, it smells like a mix of vomit, spilled drinks, sweat, and rat diarrhea (caused by eating too many cockroaches, I imagine). Then there are the strip clubs. Bourbon Street has the highest concentration of strip clubs you’ll see this-side of … well, Portland, evidently (well-played, Google — didn’t see that one coming). There’s Babe’s Cabaret, Big Daddy’s, Deja Vu Showgirls, Larry Flynt’s [...]

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Blackened Voodoo Lager at Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar.

The Best Beer in New Orleans

By     |    May 16, 2012
Posted in: Bars, Booze, Beer, Etc., Louisiana, Mississippi     |    4 Comments

We had some beers in New Orleans. They were yummy. Try these if you see them in your local beer store: Perfect Tin Amber Ale Lisa’s favorite brew, Fat Tire Amber, is also an amber ale, and Tin Roof’s went down just as deliciously. Comes in cans, so it’s boat-friendly. Brewed in Baton Rouge. Abita Amber Abita is one of the better-distributed Louisiana brews (I’m pretty sure I had their Purple Haze [...]

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Massive and fresh oysters from the Apalachicola Bay.

Indian Pass Raw Bar: The Perfect Seafood Shack

By     |    May 11, 2012
Posted in: Bars, Booze, Beer, Etc., Florida, Food     |    2 Comments

“Y’all been here before?” the woman behind the register asked. Nope. She was being nice. We were looking around in confusion and hunger trying to figure the place out while eyeing the plates of oysters and shrimp in front of the other patrons. Clearly, this was our first time. We were lost and drooling and overwhelmed. There was a lot to take in — the very short menu board, the [...]

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Pinkie Master's: iconic Savannah dive bar.

Pinkie Master’s: Best Dive Bar in the South

By     |    May 8, 2012
Posted in: Bars, Booze, Beer, Etc., Georgia     |    1 Comment

Savannah is a drinking town. I’m not sure why. It’s one of seven places in the US where you can walk around with a drink (Las Vegas and New Orleans are also on that distinguished list along with Butte, MT). It’s not cruise ship traffic — Savannah doesn’t get any of that. Cruise ships land in Charleston. It’s odd — bars offer to-go drinks. It’s especially odd because of the [...]

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She-crab soup.

Low-Country Classics at SeeWee Restaurant, Charleston, SC

By     |    May 3, 2012
Posted in: Bars, Booze, Beer, Etc., Food, South Carolina     |    No Comments

First, is it lowcountry, low-country, or low country? I’m not sure. And this place isn’t technically in Charleston, it’s to the east, in Awendaw, SC. Close enough. And we were camping out there and this place was down the street. We had hoped to go to The Wreck of the Richard & Charlene, but they’re only open a few hours every night and we were in the mood for an afternoon snack. [...]

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Bearden Beer Market.

A Night in Knoxville

By     |    Apr 26, 2012
Posted in: Bars, Booze, Beer, Etc., Tennessee     |    2 Comments

We spent a night in Knoxville with our friends, Kate and Ben, who took us to a couple great bars. Bearden Beer Market Located in an old drive-up motel, they’ve demoed some of the rooms to make a cozy and fun beer courtyard / garden. Grab a beer from inside, play bean-bag toss outside, or grab a table in the sun and watch the hops vines grow. It’s an amazingly [...]

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Ten High Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey.

High Ten and Lime … Wait, Ten High Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey and Lime

By     |    Mar 28, 2012
Posted in: Arizona, Bars, Booze, Beer, Etc., Mission Whiskey     |    1 Comment

Well, it’s come to this: the $7.99 bottle of booze. For just under $8, we got 750mL of brown-colored booze flavored like whiskey in a plastic travel-ready bottle. Pretty sweet deal, eh? I couldn’t help but read the name as “High Ten” instead of “Ten High” — it just makes more sense that way. Ten High? That’s a pretty shitty poker hand. High Ten? Now that just sounds delicious. From [...]

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Skirts stay under control at Four Peaks Brewery. Kilts, not so much.

Four Peaks Brewery, Phoenix

By     |    Mar 26, 2012
Posted in: Arizona, Bars, Booze, Beer, Etc.     |    2 Comments

We stopped at Four Peaks Brewery for a beer with a buddy in Phoenix. They have great beer. Lisa loved the Hefeweizen and the Arizona Peach Ale; I was a fan of the Kilt Lifter. But Kilt Lifter? Is that really what I want when I’m drinking? Don’t I want a skirt lifter, some sort of mind control brew that lets me overcome gravity or direct a targeted blast of air [...]

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Jerome perched on the side of a mountain.

Bisbee vs. Jerome: Arizona Ex-Mining Town Smackdown

By     |    Mar 22, 2012
Posted in: Arizona, Bars, Booze, Beer, Etc., Wine     |    4 Comments

We loved Bisbee, Arizona. We loved Bisbee so much we can’t wait to return. We loved Bisbee so much we were really looking forward to exploring another of Arizona’s ex-mining towns, Jerome. But did we love Bisbee too much to enjoy Jerome? Were our love-struck eyes too cloudy to appreciate another tiny town in Arizona? Maybe. That’s why I’m going to make this very scientific. There are categories. There are [...]

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Hooter's ... home of one more dubious business expense.

Business Expense: Hooters

By     |    Mar 15, 2012
Posted in: Bars, Booze, Beer, Etc., Nevada     |    1 Comment

DrivingInertia.com is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Prolonged Insult, LLC, my web-publishing-and-consulting company (formerly my failed user-generated literature site). Prolonged Insult, LLC is incorporated in the Cayman Islands for tax purposes and is itself owned by Avast Assets Corp, a 501(c) non-profit organization that aims to make the world more internety. Avast Assets Corp is a registered corporation in Belize because of its fixed dollar conversion rate (2:1 = easy, sleazy accounting). Prolonged Insult, [...]

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