Drinking with the Saints: The Sinner’s Guide to a Holy Happy Hour is a best selling book by Michael P. Foley.
He invites his readers to pub crawl their way through the sacred seasons with and useful collection of cocktail recipes, distilled spirits, beer, and wine for virtually every occasion on the Catholic liturgical calendar.
It is described as “one part bartender’s guide, one part spiritual manual, a dash of irreverence, and mixed with love.”
Foley points out in the foreword, Catholics have a storied history with booze.
Whiskey was invented by Irish monks, beer refined in medieval monasteries, and one of the world’s finest champagnes is named after a Benedictine monk by the familiar name of Dom Perignon. Read more