Best New Grilling Tools & Accessories
With Memorial Day serving as the unofficial kickoff of the summer grilling season, here’s our list of top grilling tools. 1. Grill Grates These are interlocking panels that sit on the surface of your grill. What do they do, exactly? They are designed to amplify…
Had A Few Drinks and You’re Being Pulled Over
You are driving home, feeling quite the bad ass. Dinner with friends was awesome and the drinks flowed at an official pace. You were smart and limited your intake to three over a couple hours, after all, you were driving. But the invite list also…
Cinco de Mayo Recipe – Mexi-Cali Salad Con Asada
Cinco de Mayo is coming up in a few days. For those of you that have had zero access to information or popular culture the past couple decades, this is basically the equivalent of the Fourth of July for Mexico. In this country it’s celebrated…
Spring Forward With Palmia Lager
“Bringing the refreshing and unique taste of Spain to America … a chance to taste The Endless Summer” Spring is here! It’s time to put away the heavy coats, start exercising outdoors, switch from manhattans to martinis and winter ales to light beers. Enter Palmia,…
Old World Manners Lost – The Dinner Invitation
“It’s that simple and completely lost in today’s face-in-phone society.” It has been 40 years since Fred Astaire once said, “The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any”, and Mahatma Gandhi once said – “There is more to life than…
The Rugged Male’s First Birthday
This month The Rugged Male turned one year old. Twelve months ago we wished you all a Steve McQueen kind of year … well, all 35 of our followers at the time. The photo above was taken on the set of The Getaway. Pictured is…
Dewar’s – The Drinking Man’s Scotch
“The Drinking Man represents the man who is looking not to take life by the horns, but to put it in a cage match” Who needs the most interesting man in the world, when you can sip scotch with the hottest woman on the planet, Claire…
Better Than A Bakers Dozen and A Hard Six
Who needs a Baker’s Dozen when you have Baker’s 7?! There is no better way to celebrate the 80 year anniversary of the Repeal of Prohibition than picking up a bottle of Jim Beam’s Baker’s Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. Baker’s bourbon is part of…
Holiday Cocktail Recipes – The Kentucky Breakfast & Hot Toddy
While all the retailers are trying (yet again) to invent another shopping holiday to go along with Black Friday and Cyber Monday, we have our own – Brown Thursday, and it starts and ends with bourbon. So this holiday season, whether you are on your…
New Football Drink Recipe – Hornitos Bromosa
Many of us are challenged for Saturday morning libations, especially for those must see football, or futbol games. What do you do if you despise tomato juice? You are not in the mood for beer. You think (or know!) vodka and champagne are for girls….