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A Brewery Founded By MIT Geeks Releases a New Sci-Fi Rock Album on Beer Cans
When was the last time Pabst Blue Ribbon released a beer based on a sci-fi concept album about transdimensional travel? Never, that’s when. But Aeronaut…
Chinese Wine: The Grape Leap Forward
Don’t tell it to French winemakers, but in 2015, the Chinese wine industry hit a major milestone by narrowly surpassing France in land dedicated to…
Opinion: How craft beer lost its craft and gained layoffs
The definition of craft beer is as amorphous as it ever was. And that helps no one but the beer industry’s largest brewers. After we…
The Best Beers To Try on Each Continent
For many of us, sampling local drinks is one of the things that we look forward to most about traveling. And if your favorite beverage…
Politicians Make Bootlegging Great Again
When Prohibition ended in 1933, my great-grandfather, Giuseppe Marano, thought his money-making glory days were over. Having made a good living selling alcoholic beverages to…
Pot, Peyote, and Snakes: the Rise of Northern Mexico’s Best Drink
Click here to view original web page at roadsandkingdoms.com BY ALEC JACOBSON I am lost in Juan Aldama, a small town where fine dust blows…
Fears for some of California’s top vineyards as record storms drown grape-growing land under feet of water – and more is yet to come
California’s wine industry suffered a blow over the weekend as Sonoma County – home to 60,000 acres of vineyards and more than 425 wineries –…
Beer column: Brewers get creative with distribution
The LCBO, Beer Store and select grocery stores are all decent ways to discover Ontario craft beers. But many interesting small batch special brews are…
A Spirit for the Dry Season
Newly available in Canada, Seedlip is a distilled spirit flavoured with trendy botanicals. It’s pricey, smooth, served in…
Winemakers Target Genders With Grapes of Math
SYDNEY—When Constellation Brands Inc. rolled out a new wine range recently, it relied on a strategy that doesn’t always mix well with consumers: gender-based marketing.…
The “drunken monkey” hypothesis might explain why humans enjoy alcohol
Drinking and producing alcohol are among the most universal of human behaviors. On the face of it, there is no obvious connection between today’s casual…
The Best Beers of 2016
What the hell is the “best beer,” anyways? For us, it’s gotta be Kickmouth Brewery’s Slop House barrel-aged stout. Just kidding, we made that up.…
Won’t A.I. Beer Inevitably Result in Bud Light?
I somehow missed the yuuuuge rollout this summer of IntelligentX, a Britain-based project to produce beer that responds via algorithm to customer choice: After you’ve…
The Technologies That Make This Wine So Expensive
If you’ve ever wondered what the hell makes one wine cost $600, welcome to the club! Sometimes, the price tag on expensive wine comes down…
First Cases of Jamaican-Produced Red Stripe Arrive in U.S.
White Plains, NY – The first cases of iconic Red Stripe Beer, produced once again in the brand’s homeland of Jamaica, arrive on U.S. retail…
