Public domain bacon Do you like bacon? How about some bacon-flavored beer… with a side of chocolate-covered bacon? Watch City Brewing Company in Waltham’s got what you need, in the form of “Smokey Joe Brown.” This cask Rauchbier (smoked beer) is flavored with Benton’s bacon...

If you ever start to think you’re an awful cook, there may be hope for you yet: you’re (probably) not the worst cook in America. That honor will go to the “winner” (loser?) of a new Food Network show, Worst Cooks in America . After tonight’s dramatic-cum-patriotic “Super...

Political commentator, television personality, and classic cocktail enthusiast Rachel Maddow is now utilizing her varied interests to engage in investigative cocktail journalism. She has obtained a grainy spy photo of bartenders (Derek Brown and Adam Bernbach) and bottles (Luxardo maraschino, Old Tom...

Image tagged “Bostonist” by Flickr user AndreaTallOne . We recently ranked as the 43rd happiest state in the U.S., just shy of Rhode Island (42nd) and kicking the miserable asses of Connecticut and New York (49th and 50th, respectively). Notwithstanding our depression, possibly caused by...

It’s that holly jolly, manicky panicky time of year again. At this point, with just less than a week to finish up your holiday shopping, it’s a little late to be puttering about on the Internet. But have no fear, there are other options when buying for the beer lover on your Secret Santa...

As it spits a mix of snow and sleet and rain outside, we realize it is well into the Winter Warmer and Winter Ale season. So, what’s keeping us warm this time of year? Old Jubilation, Avery Brewing’s Winter Ale, is an English Strong Ale. Its beautiful ruby color hints at its toasty nutmeg...

b_skerratt makes good use of negative space in today’s PotD. By combining negative space with strong off camera lighting, we see excellent subject isolation. View original here:  Photo of the Day, December 10, 2009: Parking Meter

Photo tagged “Bostonist” by S W Awesometown . We’ve been busy (drinking). Gossip Girl did not kill the speakeasy , or Boston didn’t get the memo: there is this super secret bar that just opened and it is so secret it has a Facebook page. And its Facebook page has a list of rules...

Sometimes a restaurant’s decor can be misleading. We’ve all been to places that seem fancy but serve up mediocre food. In the case of Pizzeria Dante in Coolidge Corner, the exact opposite is true - it may look like any other brightly lit pizzeria, but the food choices prove that there’s...

The Bill of Rights. When the Supreme Court handed Martha Coakley her ass last month, it may also have opened a Pandora’s box of illegitimate drug convictions . At issue in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts was a Massachusetts law that allowed forensics experts to skip testifying about their laboratory...