Tart, tangy, and technically contaminated, kettle sours are an increasingly popular craft beer category. But the term “kettle sour” is not a beer style; rather, it’s a means to an end.
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11 Things You Should Know About Bombay Sapphire Gin
There’s a lot more a lot of us should know about gin in general. Which means there’s definitely plenty we should know about a gin like Bombay Sapphire. The great grandchild of the 1761 gin distillery founded by Thomas Dakin in Warrington, England, Bombay burst onto the scene in the late ‘80s.
You Can Find Some of the Best Sparkling Wines You’ve Never Tasted in Slovenia
There is no Michelin-starred restaurant or sommelier dressed in stiff white garb when you arrive at Istenič winery in Bizeljsko, Slovenia. The modest building near the Croatian border is surrounded by hillocks with terraced vineyards, and looks nothing like the ritzy wineries you might see in Australia’s Yarra Valley or the Cape Winelands in South […]
Boozy Ferris Wheel or Mountaintop Wine Bar: Eight of the World’s Most Extreme Drinking Destinations
While we’ve certainly got nothing against bars at sea level, sometimes we want to take our drinking game up a notch — and by notch, we mean 10,000 feet. Don’t worry, we’re not talking about swigging $7 mini-bottles of booze on our next American Airlines flight.
Hop Take: Craft Beer Wants You All to Itself
Beer is losing market share to wine and spirits! Beer is the biggest alcohol category by far! Both are true, and both come from the same report. Wait, what? Michael Uhrich, chief economist at the Beer Institute, presented a number of fascinating and at times conflicting trends for the beer industry in a series of […]
Coltibuono ‘RS’ Chianti Classico 2015
I don’t know about you, but I have a thing about Italian food and wine. More so than with other countries and their wines, I just have to have Italian reds when I cook Italian-inspired dishes.
A Malt Pioneer Is Revolutionizing How New England Craft Brewers Think About Their Grains
In the greenwashed ecosystem of conscientious consumption, few words are as bastardized as “local.” Your Stumptown coffee might be locally roasted, but the beans weren’t grown in Oregon or New York. The way we use the word seems disingenuous. Can a neighborhood brewery call itself “local,” then, if few, if any, of its ingredients are […]
Salute! Seven of the Best Proseccos for Aperol Spritzes, Ranked
An Aperol Spritz tastes like summer, whether you’re currently yachting in the Adriatic, or would very much like to be. The Austro-Italian cocktail features a simple, 3-2-1, Prosecco-Aperol-soda water rubric, making it easy-drinking and customizable. It’s popular, too. GQ, Vogue, and this publication have devoted ample word count to the simple pleasures of the spritz.
What Is a Crowler, Exactly — And Should You Care?
If you haven’t experienced the convenience of a crowler, you’re missing out. The crowler, or can-growler, is a 32-ounce can that takes the place of growlers in taprooms. It blew the lid off the shortcomings of the glass growler in 2013, and yet is still a concept somewhat foreign to those who don’t frequent brewery […]
