Mutineer Magazine - The 2nd Issue
I won’t take it personally but neither this humble drink blog, nor my own lovingly created Spittoon make it into MM’s ‘Blogs You Should Be Reading’ section; Fermentation, Pinot Blogger and Appellation Beer do though. This disappointment aside a joy to find that the second issue of Mutineer Magazine is now available!
“It is the mission of Mutineer Magazine to provide honest and fearless journalism to our readers. We bring everything you experience in the world–film, music, fashion, books, popular culture–into the context of beverage and alcohol. At the end of the day, drinking becomes the lens through which we explore the world…enjoy!”
I don’t quite understand the American fixation with Absinthe, it has been covered here in quite some depth and garners more page views and comments across the blogosphere than practically any other spirit, but two articles in MM cover this most infamous of drinks. Absinth doesn’t have a particularly illustrious history though with madness attributed to the drink being laced with copper sulphite, taken with laudanum (opium) and drunk in large quantities by severe alcoholics - murders, attempted murders and bohemian excess combine to make for great copy.
I for one will not be racing to see Bottle Shocked the movie, also reviewed and damned in this issue:
“In this writer’s opinion, it seems as though this film has done far more to hurt wine than to help it, adding to the myths instead of dispelling them. I don’t blame the wineries in the movie, nor the actors. Blame should fall on the writers and producers who showed so little respect for this historical achievement.”
More for the film-buff in ‘Great Bar flights on Film’. - Star Wars is there, as is Collateral and A Bronx Tale but not the great Vampire bashing seen in From Dusk Till Dawn!
For the wine lover there are three great articles - Growing Up in The Vineyard, Eyrie Vineyards: Pinot Pioneers and Berry to Bottle; the last looking at how to access a vineyard based on four elements - earth, air, fire and water. Interesting reading indeed.
A snapshot of the current issue - combining as it does culture and all drinks in one ‘intoxicating’ manner MM makes for a great read and effortlessly too, unlike other now defunct magazines that tried just too damn hard to be ‘cool’.
Good review, can’t wait to check out issue #2!