Got Beer? Peak Beer? No Limits? Discuss!
Greetings, Motifians! We missed y’all in the Spring Alcohol Issue, but we had to pass on the intoxicating fun and assume the role of designated driver after our attempts to […]
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September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Got Beer? Grey Sail’s Dave’s Coffee Stout
Dave’s Coffee, which is not to be confused with Dave’s Market or Dave’s Bar & Grill or Dave & Busters or Dave, the Kevin Kline movie about a president’s look-a-like, […]
IMBIBE: Lime Rock
Do you feel that? In the air? It’s time. Cocktail menu changes are upon us. For SPRING. Yes, despite March roaring in like a lion and, uh, out like a […]
What do the Slave Trade and Your Favorite Drink Have in Common?
Rum. No other liquor has stronger connotations of tropical paradises, lofty sea breezes and thanks to certain movie franchises, pirates. Rhode Island even has its own rum brewed by the […]
Drinking Modifiers Is Mod
Cocktail modifiers might not just be for cocktails anymore. Lately, many bars have taken to serving mixers, such as vermouth or bitters, by themselves, without any hard liquor to accompany […]
Leishla Maldonado: Coming Home from Speed Rack
You can’t make a good drink without proper skill and technique, and these bartending skills are tested in the Speed Rack competition, which pits bartenders from all around the country […]
New Trends in Drinking
My original pitch to the hardworking, hard thinking, patient editor and publisher of Motif went like this: “Millennial drinking habits are different!” They were intrigued, but, really, why should we […]
Bartender Profiles
BARTENDER PROFILES 1. Audrey King Troop PVD a. How did you get into bartending? I began bartending at Foxwoods, of all places. While it was a crazy and fun environment, […]
Gin on the Rise
If we were playing Family Feud and the question was, “Name the phrases and feelings conjured by 100 people who were asked to free associate with the liquor gin,” we […]
Got Beer? Foolproof’s Forecast Chapter #4
At one time, you could fit all the brewers in Rhode Island into a well-lubed phone booth. Now, you wouldn’t be able to cram them all into a medium-sized Dunkin […]