Drinks
Berkeley’s Most Interesting Brewery Will Leave a (Pleasantly) Sour Taste in Your Mouth
Meet the Berkeley brewery that only makes sour beer.
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Food & DrinkA Cautious Man’s Guide to Hot Peppers
Some chili peppers are more sweet than spicy, better suited to date night than a chest-beating contest with the boys. To learn more about the tamer varieties, we took a walk to the Chelsea Fruit Market.
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Archive30 Minutes With: Eric Wallace and Brett Joyce
We sit down with Eric Wallace of Left Hand Brewing and Brett Joyce of Rogue Ales to talk about brewing technology, stout glasses and Miley Cyrus.
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DrinksBarnyard Brews: The Best Saison Beers
Originally brewed in Wallonia, the French-speaking region of Belgium, as a summer treat for farmers who spent hours under the hot sun, saisons often taste spicy, earthy and yeasty, and contain ABV levels that typically run between 4% and 8.5%. Other than a glass of ice water, they’re about as refreshing a drink as you can get on a hot summer day.
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DrinksTasting the World’s Oldest Tequila: Lote Fuenteseca
For the past 18 years, agave-mogul Enrique Fonseca Cerda has been aging the world’s oldest tequila. We headed down to the NoMad, Manhattan, for a taste.
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Archive30 Minutes With: Jeff Carvalho
First impressions go a long way in this world, and Jeff Carvalho knows it. The 39-year-old cofounder of the men’s style and lifestyle site Selectism presents himself like a real-life version of Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark: intelligent, well-dressed, confident.
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Tech
A Modern Man’s Guide to Retro Gaming
Nostalgia makes the original Sonic an appealing option for summer fun, but tracking down a Sega Genesis is easier said than done.
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Food & DrinkNew Season, New Beers: Six Great Choices for Summer
‘Tis the season for lazy Saturdays, day hikes and easy drinking saisons, session IPAs and pale ales.
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DrinksTested: Northern Brewer One Gallon Homebrew Kit
If you haven’t yet joined the home brew revolution, you’re missing out on a lot of fun.
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Food & DrinkTasting Notes: Lost Tribes Tej
We try Tej, an Ethiopian honey wine brought to the United States by gypsy brewer and recipe reviver Lost Tribes Beverage.
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ArchiveBreakdown: NASA Z-2 Spacesuit
NASA’s newest spacesuit, the Z-2, departs from past designs and even used crowd sourcing (for a few minor bits).
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Food & DrinkAround the World in Seven Vodkas
Vodka has recently undergone a renaissance, thanks in part to distillers from around the world who take advantage of native ingredients and traditional distilling methods to put their own unique twists on the drink.
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OutdoorsButton Up, Hike Down: Best Hiking Shirts
Apparel with the technical specs to keep you snug and dry on the trail doesn’t have to look out of place the minute you leave the wild.
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TechBreakdown: Lytro Illum
Back in 2011, when Lytro introduced the Light Field, critics gasped in amazement at the camera’s ability to refocus pictures after the shutter snap… and in horror at the angular, boxy design.
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TechThe 50 Best iPhone & iPad Games
Consoles don’t provide much in the way of portability (anyone else ever own this masterpiece of engineering?), and grown men carrying Gameboys often attract the wrong kind of attention, but mobile games offer interactive experiences on the devices that most of us carry every day. They allow us a bit of serenity when we need it most — in the airport, on the subway, at a questionable mid-life Bris.
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DrinksThe Five Best Beer Growlers
When you get down to it, a small investment in a beer jug opens up a whole world of local microbrews.
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TechTested: Playing through Monument Valley
Since 2010, several iOS games have tried to match Infinity Blade’s incredible combination of artistry and narrative, our favorites being The Room and Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP. On April 3rd, 2014, a new challenger stepped into the arena: Monument Valley, an M.C.
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DrinksRewind: Malted Madness 2014
There’s a time for relaxing with a good craft beer, but this year’s Malted Madness tournament was not one of them. It took a great deal of humility, but we shelved our self-proclaimed beer snobbery for the sake of a single question: what’s the best mass market beer available?