This Week In Booze: Starlit

Booze of various heights at Trina’s Starlite Lounge in Somerville. (Baby-sized High Life ponies come by the bucket.) The Archdiocese of Boston urges Catholics to hold off on the consecrated wine, lest they catch transubstantiated swine flu. [ Globe ] Is there any point in making cocktails with single malt Scotch? No? (Did anybody ask at Drink? Their dishwasher seems to have an Ardbeg-rinse cycle.) [ Stuff ] Encounters With Whisky At The End Of The World. [ Globalpost ] Grand is the place to be on Saturday afternoon. Jill DeGroff will be signing her book of bartender portraits , and her husband—some

guy named Dale—has a book, too. LUPEC will be there, too, with Halloween Punch. Costumes are encouraged. [ Grand ] Cambridge Brewing Company is the place to be on Saturday night. The Great Pumpkin Festival goes until midnight, and there will be no fewer than twenty pumpkin beers. [ CBC ] The Lord Hobo : are we there yet? [ BeerAdvocate ] Trina’s Starlite Lounge : we are there, a lot. Try the Gentleman cocktail, and the cornbread. [ TV Diner ] See you at the Fernet party. [ Drinkboston ]

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This Week In Booze: Starlit