Tag: St. Patrick’s Day

Amanda Neal in a Bullz-Eye T-shirt

Amanda in Bullz-Eye t-shirt

Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day we have our lovely redhead we introduced for the holiday back in 2010. Amanda Neal returns for a Blast from the Past shoot sporting a Bullz-Eye T-Shirt which she then proceeds to take off for some spectacular implied photos. Amanda even has some green highlights in her pretty red hair, and as you can see she’s added some new tattoos as well. Look for more photos from this curvy Girl Next Door as we have a set with her posing next to a motorcycle as well.

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Drink of the Week: The Emerald

The EmeraldSay what you will about me, I am a man of peace. That is why I come to you, this St. Patrick’s Day eve, with a small suggestion. If you should, for some reason, find yourself at an actual Irish bar or pub tomorrow night, please resist the urge to order two drinks, which I will now name.

Now, I actually very much like the beverage we in the States and in England call the Black and Tan, which combines Guinness stout with Bass or another pale ale. It’s sort of the cappuccino of beer. However, as Ben and Jerry found out a a few years back, the name is pretty much the equivalent of naming a Jewish deli sandwich a Marauding Cossack. You see, just as the Cossacks weren’t known for their kindness to Russian Jews, the English Black and Tan militia men were not known for their gentleness to Irish folks during the nation’s war of independence from the British, circa 1920-22. As for the drink known as an Irish Car Bomb, let’s just leave that one alone.

Instead, may we suggest this really very nice little beverage named for the Emerald Isle. Yes, knowledgeable readers will notice a more than slight similarity with a far better known classic cocktail, but that will only make it easier to order if your barman is not familiar — and he likely won’t be.

The Emerald

2 ounces Irish whiskey
1 ounce sweet vermouth
1-3 dashes orange bitters
1 maraschino cherry (very optional garnish)

Combine whiskey, vermouth, and bitters in a cocktail shaker. Shake or stir, as is your preference, into a chilled martini/cocktail glass. Toast, preferably while listening to the Pogues, the Chieftains, the Dubliners, or Van Morrison.

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Now, yes, this is pretty obviously a slight variation on a Manhattan, but the Irish whiskey makes for a drink that goes down as easy as watching John Ford’s “The Quiet Man” on a Sunday afternoon and ordering this non-offensive drink will avoid any situations out of “The Wind that Shakes the Barley.”

As I alluded to above, it’s also a pretty obscure drink. Indeed, every recipe I could find online seems to come pretty directly from, Esquire‘s David Wondrich who, I promise, won’t be mentioned next week for a change. It’s worth noting, however, that he points out the use of orange bitters is also potentially controversial, if you know a little Irish history. I do think, however, your bartender will charitably assume you mean orange fruit and not Orangemen when you request a Manhattan made with Irish whiskey and Regan‘s Orange Bitters.

And now, some music to drink the Emerald by.

Your 2011 St. Patrick’s Day Playlist

Ah, St. Patrick’s Day, where everyone is Irish for a day. March seems to be full of days like that, since Fat Tuesday is the day where everyone is Catholic for a day.

Since we know many of you will be getting a full-fledged drink on this St. Paddy’s Day, especially since it is also the first day of the NCAA tournament, we have provided a small list of songs about drinking, the effects of drinking, and the vow that many of you will make the following morning. Think of it as the bender that you never took; we love booze as much as the next guys, but sometimes those things are better lived vicariously.

“It’s Time to Party,” Andrew W.K.

 

With a whopping three songs about partying on his debut album, Andrew W.K. will forever remain our master of ceremonies when it comes to partying. Until we saw the grammar-challenged lyric video, though, we didn’t know this song made a reference to a money shot. Yikes.

“Party Hard,” Andrew W.K.

 

And of course, if you’re going to party, why do it by half? Come on, who parties soft? Jeesh.

“Have a Drink on Me,” AC/DC

 

The night is young. Everyone is flush with cash and feeling generous. Try and remember this moment when 1:30 rolls around and you’re buying Natural Light pounders. For now, though, you’re living on the top shelf.

“Cold Gin,” KISS

 

Gin seems to be popular among music types. Neil Hannon sang about it in “Gin Soaked Boy,” and Amy Winehouse and Panic! at the Disco have name-checked it, too. But we have to go with the original. That, and its hip-hop equivalent…

“Gin & Juice,” Snoop Dogg

 

Laaaaaaid back, mu’ fuckas. And now that this party has officially started, time to break out the big guns.

“Santana DVX,” The Lonely Island

 

“He makes his guitar weep, but his champagne cries,” indeed. Of course, now we’re getting into dangerous territory: mixing liquors. Little good will come from this, you know.

“Brass Monkey,” Beastie Boys

 

The girls aren’t biting like you hoped they would? Slip ’em some Spanish fly. That’s the Beastie way. If you haven’t seen the DVD this clip comes from, “Awesome! I Shot That!,” you’re missing out.

“One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer,” George Thorogood and the Destroyers

 

That’s six different kinds of alcohol ingested, by our count. A good time is surely being had at this point, but now is not a bad time to take a break and drink some water, lest you wind up like…

“Drunk Girls,” LCD Soundsystem

 

We still maintain that LCD Soundsystem is one of the most overrated bands on the planet, but they fit the theme. Plus, we readily admit that this list could use some new blood, and we’re not about to put that damn Ke$ha song on here. The ‘frat boy bunnies gone wrong’ clip isn’t embeddable, but if you’re itching to see it, click here. Otherwise, enjoy the clip above, which curiously has gotten more hits than the music video. Huh.

“Tubthumping,” Chumawamba

 

And now we’re adding whiskey and vodka to the mix, not to mention lager and cider. No wonder the singer gets knocked down. If we’re picking favorites, though, this is the definitive version of the song.

 

“That Woman’s Got Me Drinking,” Shane MacGowan

 

You haven’t thought about her at all the whole night. And then you saw someone that looked like her, or her favorite band came on the jukebox, and now your evening’s fucked. Order a double, sit at the end of the bar, tell your friends to give you a minute. And yes, that is Johnny Depp in this video. He directed it, too.

“Traditional Irish Folk Song,” Denis Leary

 

“We drink and we die and continue to drink.” It’s getting late. You didn’t take that water break back when you should have gone for some grub. And now you’re…

“Wasted,” Def Leppard

 

But hopefully, not as wasted as the guitarist on the far right, who thought that the long straight hair was a good idea. But you’re still mad about the girl, and your buddy gets you another round, and you are now officially…

“Trashed,” Black Sabbath

 

And as luck would have it, that girl that reminded you of your ex has just asked if you’ll be her partner for a game of cricket against her drunk friend and another guy. Holy shit, this can’t be happening. Grudge sex, ahoy! You try and play it cool, and it appears to be working; the bartenders have announced last call, and she looks at you and says, “So where to?” You’re feeling lucky. My place? She agrees. Lust is in the air. There is just one small problem.

“Too Drunk to Fuck,” Dead Kennedys

 

Between the gin, juice, bourbon, scotch, whiskey, vodka, lager, cider, brass monkey and that goddamn Santana DVX you’ve ingested over the course of the evening, you sailed past Hot Sex Boulevard and barreled down Eunuch Lane a good two hours ago. (Didn’t you see the ‘Do Not Enter’ sign?) Of course, you didn’t remember that when you first wake up, and you didn’t remember it when you realized that Doppelganger Girl is gone. Nope, it doesn’t hit you until you reach the bathroom, look in the mirror, and see LOSER written backwards on your bathroom wall, in lipstick. You sum up the evening: you’re dead broke, you blew the chance to bed a hottie, and you feel like someone replaced your blood with Drano. You make the pledge, right then and there, that…

“I Won’t Ever Go Drinking Again (?),” Squeeze

 

Not until the next time, anyway. Who are you kidding?

Go hit a greasy spoon, pop a five-hour energy drink, take the rest of the day off, and you’ll be fine. Better check your phone’s history, though. There’s a good chance you drunk called your ex at four in the morning.

Getting ready for St. Patrick’s Day

Amanda Neal Irish Model St. Patrick's Day

What better to get you in the mood for a day of drinking on St. Patrick’s Day than a photo of a beautiful Irish model with green eyes and strawberry blonde hair – our very own Amanda Neal. She got into the spirit in her photo shoot with plenty of green St. Patrick’s Day gear, and we expect you’ll run into plenty of Irish hotties like Amanda who will get friendlier by the hour as they drink up more beer on this excellent holiday.

Speaking of beer, many of you will be drinking up plenty of Guinness, but our beer expert Mike Barkacs has another Irish beer suggestion for your drinking pleasure – Murphy’s Stout.

St. Patrick’s Day seems to be a problem for many people. Well, it’s become a problem for me anyway. On that day, I can’t seem to stand at a bar more than five minutes without some stumbling amateur falling into me, sloshing my drink and soaking me with theirs. Otherwise fairly normal people, albeit dressed in garish and silly clothing, take to whooping and hollering for no apparent reason, morning, noon and night. Almost all bar conversations devolve into slurred professions of either undying love or spluttering demands to step outside. It’s Saturday night with all the good bits removed. What is the perfect beverage for this happy and festive occasion? Murphy’s Stout works on just about every level.

On this, of all days, something mistakenly Irish is actually most appropriate. Sure, there’s always the ubiquitous black stuff that everyone else will be having, but that may be a tad too genuine. Guinness is fine, but save that for all the other days of the year. Murphy’s looks the part of a popular Irish beer, even though it’s not made in Cork anymore. It’s black with a tan head — what else do you want? It might be a tad creamier than its more famous cousin, but you’d be hard pressed to spot a difference between the two by sight alone. So, like the rest of the revelers, it will easily pass for Irish just this once. Even if it is now made in, well, England. Birthplace of St. Patrick himself.

Of course, you don’t have to drink Irish beer on this Irish holiday, so feel free to check out Mike’s other beer reviews for other options.

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