The Original Drinking Flag

The Original Drinking FlagWhile researching my gin journal, I became fascinated with a tradition of the British Navy based around a triangular piece of fabric known as a Gin Pennant. Usually made from a recycled signal flag, its creators would draw a drinking vessel on the pennant before hoisting it up the halyard as a kind of pre Internet friend request. As the story goes, officers of one ship would raise it to invite officers of other nearby ships for cocktails (usually gin

Thirteen must be your lucky number

cantina or tequileria

Coffee from different farms can vary greatly in density and size

If you're as big a paper geek as you are a cheese geek

Wine Bottle Taxonomy is a frameable 9 x 14 inches (23 x 36 cm)

labeling each one and noting specs like style

They're made of laser-cut

because normally 13 books would cost you $75+

* "Tiki" as a concept is pretty loaded

Traditionally

* Frame not included

from the mighty Melchior to the diminutive Demi