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A serving of chicha at the winter solstice ceremony Fiesta del Huan, celebrated at Colombia's El Museo Arqueológico de Sogamoso.

Chicha de Jora

The Colombian government declared war on this once-ubiquitous drink.

The Signal Box Inn.

Cleethorpes, England

The Signal Box Inn

This tiny business claims to be "the smallest pub on the planet."

A German U-boat in 1918.

Did German U-Boats Smuggle Alcohol Into the U.S. During Prohibition?

One photo suggests that rampant rumors of submarine smuggling were true.

Sarah Laskow August 29, 2017

The embassy.

Washington, D.C.

The Cuban Embassy's Hemingway Bar

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

Bemelmans Bar

New York, New York

Bemelmans Bar

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

Boylan's Birch Beer

Birch Beer

This cousin of root beer has a long history and a surprisingly minty taste.

Scottish whiskies taste "spicier" and "peatier" than their foreign counterparts, because chemistry.

The Best Way to Drink Whiskey Is With a Bit of Water, After All

Diluters, consider yourselves absolved.

Natasha Frost August 17, 2017

Earnestine & Hazel's.

Memphis, Tennessee

Earnestine & Hazel's

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

Woman's Christian Temperance Fountain

Orange, Massachusetts

Woman's Christian Temperance Union Fountain

A remnant of the 19th-century dream to discourage people from drinking booze by offering them water.

Leiden, Netherlands

Café De Vergulde Kruik (The Gilded Jar Café)

One of the Leiden's oldest pubs is also the birthplace of the Heineken star.

The picturesque wine cellars of Vrbice.

Vrbice, Czechia

Vrbice Wine Cellars

A mesmerizing landscape of 18th-century cellars carved out of the land.

How many pink elephants wearing thick black-framed glasses sipping a martini have you seen?

Fortville, Indiana

Martini-Drinking Pink Elephant

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

Photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston, holding a cigarette and a beer stein, in her <em>Self Portrait (as "New Woman")</em>, 1896.

Where the Cocktail Party Came From

It has surprisingly feminist origins.

Laura Carlson July 11, 2017

Madeira wine from 1796, and a larger jug from the 1820s.

Found: Three Cases of Madeira Bought for John Adams’ Presidency

The wine still tastes pretty decent.

Sarah Laskow July 10, 2017

A beer in full.

Tutankhamun Ale

This beer was popular more than 3,000 years ago.

One of many Anti-Saloon League Cartoon

Westerville, Ohio

Anti-Saloon League Museum

Artifacts fill the old headquarters of the hugely influential political movement to ban alcohol in the United States.

The HMAS Sydney was secretly carrying a bottle of whisky all this time.

Found: A Bottle of Whisky Hidden in a Ship’s Mast

It spent 35 years at sea.

Sarah Laskow June 28, 2017

George Cassiday in 1930

Washington, D.C.

Bootlegging Room in the Cannon House Office Building

During Prohibition, the U.S. Congress had an "official" bootlegger, with his own Capitol Hill office.