World's First Space Beer Could Be World's Most Expensive Brew
The world's first space beer is ready to launch. It just needs your help.
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Dan Dunn Gets Tipsy On His New Podcast
Drinking and pop culture enthusiasts collide in Dan Dunn's new podcast, Drinky Fun Time. Guests include Anthony Bourdain, Dan Harmon and others.
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How To Pair Cocktails With Food (Like A Bartender)
In this excerpt, Drew Lazor offers tips on how to pair cocktails with food, which is totally doable and amazing when done right.
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This Automated Wine Device Will Solve Your Vino Woes
Plum, an automated wine device, will preserve your wine at the right temperatures, pour a perfect glass and tell you all about the wine.
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Can Irish People Drink Tequila Like They Mean It?
Can Irish people drink tequila like they mean it? No salt, no lime, no sangrita, no excuses. Just straight Mexican gold (or silver). Let's watch!
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It's Spritz Weather Again, Time For The Jägermeister?
Warmer weather often means lighter drinking, and with that, the return of the spritz. Try this version with some Jagermeister.
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Cocktail History: Using Applejack, America's Oldest Spirit
Holding the first distillery license in America, Laird’s Applejack is deeply embedded in the roots of American history and was enjoyed by George Washington.
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When Top Bartenders Give Up Drinking
Writers read. Chefs eat. Filmmakers watch. Bartenders drink, but not all. Some of today's most successful bartenders have given up the bottle. Here's why.
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These Were The Cocktail Trends Of 2016. Or What We Can Remember.
The options for finding a quality cocktail in this world are increasing at a breakneck pace. Here are some of the cocktail trends we noticed in 2016.
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For Classier Holiday Drinking, Try A Chambong
Now if something's worth doing, it's worth doing fast and loose. Chambong is a lovely, blown-glass means of delivering champagne directly down your gullet.
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How To Make Velvety-Smooth Homemade Eggnog
Homemade eggnog heralds the arrival of the holiday season. Enjoy it plain or hooch it up with a nice shot of rum or bourbon (we know you’ll do the latter).
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Video: A Look At The Longstanding Tradition Of Brewing Korean Makgeolli
A bit more alcoholic than your typical beer, makgeolli has a slightly sweet grainy flavor and refreshing aftertaste that encourages continued consumption.
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These Are The 10 Cocktail Trends To Follow Right Now
Brian Quinn is an experiential event producer and cocktail writer. He is the cofounder of the Noble Rot, an underground supper club for wine, dubbed “a new form of clandestine drinking” by Tasting Table NYC. He learned the art of craft cocktails from work with the Milk & Honey family, as well as a love for hospitality from renowned Brooklyn oyster…
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Study Finds Millennial Women Drink As Much As Men
While the wage gap still haunts the halls of workplaces throughout the United States, a recent study found that another gap has closed: Young women now drink as much alcohol as men. According to The Atlantic, research teams from Columbia University and the University of New South Wales in Australia analyzed 4 million people between 1948 and 2014…
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The FResh List: Watermelon Seeds, Tiki-Themed Footwear And 20 Or So Other Obsessions Of The Week
Welcome to the FResh List! Each week, the dedicated staffers in FR’s New York City office compile a list of all the random things on their minds about the world of food and drink and beyond. These are their latest obsessions, rounded up in a somewhat organized fashion: 1. Boozy root beer floats (no explanation necessary)2. The…
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Here's A Canned Wine Worth Drinking
Stocking your Igloo used to be as simple as a trip to the gas station for a thirty-rack and a couple bags of ice. But as gourmet food trucks, hipster barbecue, and Michelin-starred ramen tell us, lowbrow eating need not be bland. Great food can come on paper plates. And great wine can come in…
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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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How To Experience Tales Of The Cocktail Like A Pro
It's almost time for another Tales of the Cocktail, the weeklong festival celebrating the art of drinking and drinks, which kicks off Tuesday, July 19. People in the booze industry are getting packed and ready to head to New Orleans. This will be my sixth or seventh (who can remember?) time attending, and I've picked…
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What Is Pulque?
Before mezcal, before tequila, there was pulque — believed to be the oldest alcoholic beverage in North America. "It's pre-Aztec," notes Ross Graham, founder of the Miami Cocktail Company, which recently began using the ancient libation in its contemporary line of bottled, ready-to-serve cocktails.Like mezcal or tequila, pulque is made from the Mexican agave plant. It is fermented but not distilled,…
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Here Are Your 2016 Tales Of The Cocktail Spirited Awards Finalists
Organizers of the annual booze-industry bacchanal Tales of the Cocktail just announced the nominees for the upcoming 2016 event's Spirited Awards, which honor the world's best bars and bartenders. Food Republic is especially thrilled to see a number of its own contributors among the chosen. Contributing cocktails editor and Easy Drinking columnist Jeffrey Morganthaler along with frequent contributor Naren Young are…
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Up All Night: 24-Hour Bars In New Orleans To Visit Now
New Orleans is known for its all-night party scene, but on the off chance that the usual tourist traps of Tropical Isle, Huge-Ass Beers To Go™ and any number of loaded portable frozen-drink purveyors aren’t calling your name, where does one go for a wee-hour fix? Rev up that second wind, because your night has only just…
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What Is Organic Beer?
Some 2,000 people turned out for the inaugural North American Organic Brewers Festival in 2003. The first of its kind in the U.S., the festival, held in Portland, Oregon, spotlighted organic beers from 25 breweries. By August 2015, the event, by then known simply as Organic Beer Fest, had grown considerably in size and scope, drawing 12,000 people to sample from…
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4 Refreshing Beer Styles To Drink This Spring
Spring is an underappreciated time to be a beer drinker in America. Its seasonal releases lack the malty heft of fall brews or the gooey complexity of winter beers, never mind the richness of their packaging. A snow-coated landscape or a roaring fire will do it for winter releases, a pile of multicolored leaves or…
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How Morley Safer Boosted America's Thirst For Red Wine
Morley Safer is retiring this week from 60 Minutes after 46 years as a correspondent on the perennially popular CBS news program. The 84-year-old has covered myriad topics, of course. But for food and drink aficionados, he should be remembered for one thing: a pair of segments in the early 1990s that, more than anything…
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Your Favorite Hard Root Beer Is About To Get Even Harder
Last year's trendiest beverage is getting a new twist this summer. Small Town Brewery, the maker of Not Your Father's Root Beer, a boozy spin on your favorite sassafras-flavored soda from childhood, has announced that an even boozier version of the popular adult beverage will soon be available nationwide. Not Your Father's most common iteration,…
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5 Ways You're Making Your Bloody Mary All Wrong
Veteran bartender Lisa Seabury takes the classic Bloody Mary cocktail very seriously. "This is a really weird comparison, but I feel like they're as personal as your underwear or your perfume," she says. "Bloody Marys are very personal — I'm very passionate about that."Indeed, the traditional vodka-and-tomato-juice combo, which some say dates back to 1920s…
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Kentucky's Newest Bourbon Makes A Big Statement About Barrel Aging
When it comes to brown liquor, Louisville-based Brown-Forman is definitely one of the big dogs. The company's portfolio includes a little brand you might have heard of out of Lynchburg, Tennessee, named Jack Daniel’s, plus stalwart Kentucky bourbon brands Early Times and Old Forester. Woodford Reserve, Brown-Forman’s other bourbon brand, has become a favorite of…
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