The preferred tipple for most people on St Patrick's Day is a pint of Irish stout, a heavy, black beer, although others may plump for a glass of Irish whiskey.
He drank claret with each meal, took a nightcap, generally in the form of hot rum, and sometimes he tippled with gin in the afternoons--gin was the most difficult to detect on the breath.
Five hundred and fifty miles north on the sea ice off Barrow, the notion that Alaska rocks at a tipple point is not just academic. It's a matter of survival for a proud culture.