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American Absinthe: A Misunderstood Spirit Arrives Stateside
After years of global vilification and false stigma, absinthe is making a comeback.
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DrinksTasting the First Beer Aged in Jameson Barrels
Among the fastest growing trends named by brewers at the American Craft Beer Festival was barrel aging, so it’s no surprise that the world’s largest Irish whiskey producer, Jameson, is constantly approached by craft brewers looking for used barrels. Despite this, not once in Jameson’s 234 years of distilling whiskey had the company loaned their barrels to a U.S.
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DrinksA Learned Man’s Guide to Rose
Rosé season is upon us, and while we generally advocate for consumption of pink wine year round, the same warm weather that begs for draping oneself in white linen and opening too many shirt buttons demands the freshness of a crisp, vibrant rosé.
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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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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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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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DrinksHighland Park 12 to 40 Year Old, We Try Them All
Learning about the process of whisky-making is one reason to take a distillery tour, but we all know that the real name of the game is the post-tour tasting. Any day spent sampling a range of whiskies is a special one in our books.
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DrinksTrue Norse: A Visit to Highland Park Distillery
Highland Park has officially been making whisky in Kirkwall since 1798. The distillery requires no introduction for rabid fans of single malt.
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DrinksYour New Summer Drink: Coffee Milk
Coffee milk is the official beverage of Rhode Island. Think that’s weird?
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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?
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DrinksHacking Pappy: An Experiment in Home Whiskey Blending
At night, when bourbon connoisseurs go to bed, many dream of Pappy Van Winkle, a line of three exquisite bourbons (15, 20 and 23 years old, all of them colloquially referred to as “Pappy”) distilled and bottled by the Sazerac Company at the Buffalo Trace Distillery. Much of Pappy’s legend comes from its high demand: when it’s released, liquor stores dust off month-long waiting lists to decide who gets a bottle. At the end of last year, Bourbonr Blog made headlines in the liquor community by posting a recipe for “Poor Man’s Pappy,” a mix of two mid-range W.L.
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DrinksMass-Market Beer Tournament: The Final Four
The winners of their respective divisions — Sam Adams, Guinness, Natural Light and Steel Reserve — match up in the Final Four of the Mass Market Beer Tournament, and we crown a champion.
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DrinksA Quick, Drunk History of Milwaukee
At one time considered the “Beer Capital of the World”, Milwaukee was home to four of the largest brewers in the U.S. Now the city is home to only one: Miller Brewing Co.
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DrinksMass-Market Beer Tournament: The Light Division
The battle of the lights: Bud, Corona, Natural, Busch, Coors, Keystone, Michelob, Miller.
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DrinksDefining the Dive Bar
Dive bars face a tug-of-war: they’re either worshiped or ostracized. This must stop.
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DrinksDrinking With The Locals
We explore drinking culture from around the world to bring you the best five customs and oddities we could find — from beer-chugging Prime Ministers, to drinking and driving (don’t do it), to the biggest party in Iceland and more.
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DrinksMass-Market Beer Tournament: Domestic Division
We kick off the Mass Market Beer Tournament with the Domestic Division.
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DrinksIntroducing the Mass-Market Beer Tournament
We got down from our high horse, if only for a second, to judge the best of the generic, watery and cheap mass market beers. How exactly?