Before the quaffs of Champagne, though, I had to do some legwork.
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He quaffs turpentine, and spreads blue pigment onto a crust of bread as if it were cream cheese.
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She quaffs vodka from a teacup, and the quavering mirth in her voice is but a beat away from madness.
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But a new wave of cocktail lounges has scaled back on the boisterous scene while improving the craft of the quaffs.
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Craft brewing traditionally involves small, independent producers who use a mix of traditional and innovative processes and ingredients to create distinctive, high-quality quaffs.
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This is the strangest thing I've seen in a Star Wars movie, as Luke milks the giant beast and messily quaffs the beast's milk.
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All the trends that spurred the craze for the boozy fizz — including younger drinkers' desire for more-healthful, lower-alcohol quaffs — will continue, it posits.
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It's mid-August, and it's hot—drummer Andy Dole and keyboard player Brian Hamilton both order large ice teas, while bassist Matt Whipple quaffs a cold beer.
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In the great Washington tradition of conflict by day, conviviality by night, presidents have welcomed their skeptics in the news media to the East Wing for an evening of holiday quaffs and sundries.
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"FINE WINE RETAILER TANNICO QUAFFS €3.8M IN SERIES A FUNDING," screams the press release, conjuring up an image of a startup spending all of its newly acquired cash on one giant Dot Com-fueled booze up.
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But first, I'll strings of lights uncoil With my good buddy Brian Doyle ( The Brian Doyle, the Portland sage; His writing's really all the rage) So we can tack these babies up, With help from quaffs of festive cup Which we shall share with Tamsin Venn And Esa-Pekka Salonen.
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Cut off from her family's money and installed as a live-in librarian at a fusty Manhattan arts club redolent of its geriatric members' "hoarding and missed doses of Thorazine," Ava (who writes with a quill pen and quaffs absinthe frappés) aspires to compose ornate opuses with brooding characters named Agustin and Anastasia.
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Domestic wine production in Norway is almost nil (very small amounts of apple and rhubarb wine are made, along with a tiny quantity of grape-based quaffs), but the country has evolved into one of the most sophisticated wine markets in the world (despite the stringent regulations of the Vinmonopolet, the country's state-run liquor board).
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There you are, ensconced in that pub, a few empties on the table, your mouth alive with the tang and fizz of good, premium strength lager, your chest slightly wheezy from laughing too much, and you're stuck by the realization that your companion is so knowledgeable, so erudite, so simply brilliant that you don't care you've not got a word in edgeways since the first few foamy quaffs a couple of hours back.
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Mr Baum plays one of the heroine's suitors; in one scene, he serenades a giggling Jojo with a hip-hop ode to the amazing effects that her appearance has on people: "Soldiers throw away their rifles | Vegans order up roast pork | Insomniacs start dreaming sweetly | The Pope quaffs champagne and gets high…" Watching that, many of the world's 15m German-learners must have concluded that the land of earnest dichter und denker (poets and thinkers) can, after all, let its hair down.
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