That’s not to say that I don’t enjoy a good drink, because I do. But I think I have a reputation as a hard drinking writer that isn’t truly earned. I haven’t poisoned my liver that<\/i> much. And there’s no drink that future literary scholars and biographers will ever associate with me. No one will say, “Gibson drank himself into a stupor night after night as he slaved over his keyboard, writing the manuscript that would make his career. No drink was consumed more often than the…” fill-in-the-blank.<\/p>\n
There’s nothing I really drink that<\/i> often. Maybe if I could find a good<\/i> porter on a regular basis in Maryland, but I can’t. The Sam Adams Honey Porter seems to have dried up, and the Yeungling Porter is merely adequate. And yes, Guinness is a bread-and-butter drink for me; it passes the all-essential “hand behind the glass” test for a beer’s darkness.<\/p>\n
But I’ll be honest. If there’s a drink that would ever<\/i> bear my name, it would be this…<\/p>\n
The Allyn Gibson<\/b><\/p>\n
Two tablespoons instant hot chocolate mix
\nTwo tablespoons sugar
\nOne shot Irish Cream
\nOne shot Irish Whiskey
\nOne shot Cr\u00e8me de menthe (or less to taste)
\nCoffee<\/p>\n
That would do. Yes, that would do nicely<\/i>… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, people. Drink responsibly and drive safely out there. And whatever you do, don’t do this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is it about the writing profession that so many people have the mental image of us as drunkards? \ud83d\ude42 That’s not to say that I don’t enjoy a good drink, because I do. But I think I have a reputation as a hard drinking writer that isn’t truly earned. I haven’t poisoned my liverContinue reading “On Allyn Gibson, As an Alcoholic Beverage”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[789,399,736,4102],"class_list":["post-5689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-alcohol","tag-coffee","tag-st-patricks-day","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}