Inside Israel's Exciting Beer, Wine And Spirits Scene
While Israeli exports are few, the country's wine, beer and spirit industries are alive and well. Here's a guide to drinking in Israel.
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Women Are Redefining The American Craft Spirits Industry
A study from October found that millennial women drink as much as their male counterparts. Now, women are also making their way in the craft-spirits market.
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Is The Law Too Harsh On Kombucha?
Everyone's favorite tangy, fermented tea, kombucha, is trying to catch a break. Because it contains alcohol, stores treat it like beer.
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An Ancient Tradition Returns: Making Absinthe In Switzerland
In the bright green hills of Boveresse on the border of Switzerland and France, down a sleepy street lined with cobblestones, in an old, dusty house, you will find Philippe Martin quietly distilling absinthe. This is where Absinthe la Valote Martin is created, and the 45-year-old has been making the spirit since 2014. Martin took over the…
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Is "Hard Seltzer" Just Bottled Vodka Soda?
There's a new player in the never-ending quest to balance a good buzz with the calories and sugar that come with drinking. Spiked sparkling water, or "hard seltzer," clocks in at a respectable 5-6 percent ABV per bottle, around 100 calories per 12-ounce bottle and just a gram or two of sugar. It's comparable to a vodka…
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What Is Braggot?
In “The Miller’s Tale,” part of his late 15th-century Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer describes a “youthful wife” as having a mouth as “sweet as bragget or as mead.” The latter drink is likely familiar to many imbibers today. Mead is fermented honey and is available through dozens of breweries and more than 150 meaderies nationwide.…
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Ohio Brewers Are Optimistic About Ending State's Archaic Alcohol Limit
Ohio has proven itself on multiple occasions to be an innovative leader in the craft beer movement — the Buckeye State's brewers compete and challenge themselves, and its consumers continuously pursue palate development and beer IQ. The whole scene is really quite progressive and exciting. However, as I've mentioned recently, Ohio’s burgeoning craft brewing community has achieved its success…
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Finally! Gender Equality In Drinking Guidelines
Groundbreaking new guidelines in the United Kingdom strongly encourage Britons to reconsider their drinking habits. One of the more striking observations about the new standards, which recommend that people should cut back significantly on the amount of alcohol they drink, is the fact that the directive asks everyone to equally reduce the amount they drink. That is…
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Let's Go Inside London's Exciting Craft Gin Movement
The craft spirit movement has made champions of some unlikely protagonists. While the likes of scotch whisky were destined to be sexy regardless of what they mingled with, few could have accurately predicted the fervor with which obscure spirits like pisco and mezcal would be embraced, and likewise the renewed passion for old-man liquors like…
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Save Your Bitter Tears For Your Next Cocktail
Remember those guys who wanted you to get drunk through your eyeballs? They now want to teach you to use those same eyeballs to make your very own bitters via tears. Alcoholic Architecture will be holding classes in London where you can learn to do just that.The workshop will show you the basis of bitters-making, how…
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Get Drunk Through Your Eyeballs — And Spare Your Liver — At This London Bar
London’s latest addition to the bar scene sounds like one of Stefon’s go-to places: A room within the bar Alcoholic Architecture — located in the city's Borough Market — allows visitors to breathe their alcohol while wearing stylish foul-weather gear. But this room is actually real.All bar-goers need to do is stand in the foggy room — called the Cloud…
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The Hard Truth About Hard Root Beer, The Niche Beverage Of Summer 2015
It’s arguably the U.S. beer industry’s biggest surprise hit of the year — and it hardly qualifies as beer. Not Your Father’s Root Beer, a boozy spin on your favorite sassafras-flavored soda from childhood, racked up $7.2 million in sales through the first half of 2015, a figure that would rank it among the country’s…
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5 Cider Makers Producing Incredible Hard Cider Around The United States
[caption id="attachment_75815" align="alignnone" width="700" ] Tieton Cider in Washington makes a variety of styles of cider with apples from the Pacific Northwest.[/caption] To say American hard cider is making a comeback would be an understatement. At this year's annual meeting of industry minds known as CiderCON, experts were quick to point out that the category is…
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Drink Your Way Through Beer History At This Swedish Alcohol Museum
Forget the fine-art pamphlets. For a trip to Spritmuseum, you’ll need to prep your liver. Located on the island of Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden, this magical place lets visitors look at Swedish history and culture through the engaging lens of alcohol — complete with a new exhibit on craft beer that debuted during Stockholm Design…
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Let's Play The Gérard Depardieu Drinking Game!
Somewhere in a universe where people believe the things super-famous actors say about their personal lives, lies this headline: Gérard Depardieu: I Drink 14 Bottles Of Wine A Day And I've Killed Two Lions. Gérard Depardieu was wine-drunk in lion territory? Let's go directly to that universe, because that sounds like an awesome place to…
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The Powdered Alcohol Debate Gets Stirred Up
New York Sen. Charles Schumer has called on the Food and Drug Administration to ban Palcohol, a brand of powdered alcohol, from coming to market, calling it a potential "Kool-Aid of teen binge drinking," according to an AP report. This is the same Palcohol our bleary-eyed booze columnist Dan Dunn wrote about last week in…
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We Tried A Boozy Version Of Dippin' Dots
It's 104 degrees, but it feels like 1,000. There's a DJ bumping out beats at a clip that matches the heart rate of your local meth head. While Pharrell is imploring everyone to get lucky, I'm making my way through tiny bikinis and too many fedoras at the Cosmopolitan in Vegas. That's because the pot…
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What Is A Tincture?
You had "the greatest cocktail in the world" over the weekend, and were so obsessed with it you managed to remember which bar crafted it, hunted down the craftsman and demanded the recipe. Everything was great in that cocktail shaker until you got down to "3 drops of habanero tincture," and froze. What is a…
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Vi-King Of Beer: Our 5 Favorite Bottles Of Mead From Around The World
It's the drink of Vikings and kings: Mead. A sort of honey-based wine thought to be the oldest alcoholic beverage in history, it's also one of the most basic — water, yeast and fermented honey are the main ingredients. While it’s a staple in many parts of the world, especially Eastern Europe, its popularity is…
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This Week GMOs Are The Least Of Our Problems
Like we noted last week, not everyone was impressed by the conclusions of the French study linking tumors in rats to GMOs. Russians, on the other hand, were so alarmed they announced this week that they will no longer import Monsanto corn. But in terms of recent distressing food news, GMO corn might be the…
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Still No Sunday Morning Booze In New York
Dear fellow New Yorkers (and friends in Indiana): Isn’t it a drag, after you paint the town pink with a drinking binge from Friday to Saturday, that you can’t settle your headache on Sunday morning with a run to your local liquor store to chase the hair of the dog? Damn those Blue Laws! Most…
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Reheat: Ode To The Three-Martini Lunch
With Assistant Editor Jess Kapadia out on vacation this week, we're rerunning some of her best What To Eat: Lunch columns. The actual three-martini lunch appears to have fallen from grace since its middle of last century heyday, thanks to unnamed teetotalling presidential candidates and this whole crazy notion of "fitness for duty in the…
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Making Boozy Truffles With Paul A. Young
Nobody knows how to work with the sweet stuff better than Paul A. Young, London-based designer chocolatier. Young honed his craft in restaurants for years, working with world-renowned chef Marco Pierre White as well as UK fine food chains Marks and Spencer and Sainsbury's. Young recently headed to the US for a tour to promote…
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Boozy Whipped Cream, Anyone?
They say that lightning never strikes the same place twice. Well, Whipped Lightning, "the world's first alcohol-infused whipped cream," is striking new taste buds this fall with three shocking new flavors. If you haven't heard, Whipahol is a combination of your favorite dessert topping and your favorite past-time: boozing. Introduced to the of-age public last…
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