Friends, Japan has a problem. Its population isn’t drinking enough anymore. And the nation is trying to do something about it: Young people turning away from alcohol is generally welcomed as a p
Watching valuable beer shelf space go over to hard seltzer has been irritating. I always figured it was just another in the constant fads of “alcohol for people who don’t like alcohol̶
Lots of gems of self-medication here: It was a similar scene a century ago when Spanish flu ravaged the globe and the panicked masses turned to alcohol – as well as onions and opium – to ward off
It’s well known that European monks play an outsized role in the history of alcohol, especially beer and liqueurs. And anyone who knows anything about modern cocktails is well aware of chartreus
Who knew that Mexico deciding to shut breweries down as non-essential could lead to this problem! Tainted alcohol has killed dozens of people in Mexico within the past two weeks, prompting concerns th
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that Southern Comfort has no actual whiskey in it, as it is a vile substance that makes low-grade Canadian whiskey look like high-end Scotch. Really, this is wor
We all need things to read other than articles where liberals and the left yell at each other over the election, depressing election post-mortems, and pieces describing the horrors to come. So how abo
This blog has been sadly free from posts stating my aesthetic preferences for at least a month. Sorry about that. Despite the vodka, you’d think I would like the Bloody Mary. After all, the one