The Pirates had a projected Opening Day payroll of $89,975,500, per Cot's Contracts, which is $20 million lower than their next National League Central opponent in the Milwaukee Brewers at ...

Valdez had appeared in 15 games for the Pirates prior to this game, slashing .233/.327/.442 for an OPS of .768, with 10 hits, four doubles, one home run and nine RBIs, plus six walks to 10 strikeouts.

"Absinthe is special. It's the only spirit that was banned in almost every country around the world for most of a century," says Evan Rail, whose latest book is, The Absinthe Forager: A True Story of ...

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Absinthe tends to be bottled at a relatively high alcohol by volume compared to most distilled spirits, typically 60 to 70 percent ABV. It’s often diluted with water or moderately used in cocktails.

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Sales of absinthe worldwide are currently worth £29 billion and are forecast to rise to £32 billion by 2028, according to Business Research Company figures cited by the Express. The renewed ...

After the second, you see things as they are not.” His witty reflections cemented absinthe’s place as a drink of the avant-garde. Ever the adventurer, Hemingway discovered absinthe in 1920s Paris.

They picked absinthe." Ostensibly, absinthe started to get banned because it contained thujone. But it "was banned also because people were looking for something to demonise", Rail adds.

The Absinthe Forger: A True Story of Deception, Betrayal, and the World’s Most Dangerous Spirit By Evan Rail Melville House We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on ...

In the late 1800’s a French psychiatrist named Valentin Magnan studied how absinthe impacted humans and animals and suspected that its component of thujone caused seizures in laboratory animals ...

Evan Rail’s “The Absinthe Forger” takes the reader on a picaresque tour through the world of vintage alcohol collectors in pursuit of a fraudster. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer is ...