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The Sake Master Reviving a Long-Forgotten Local Rice

Hiroshima's heirloom hattanso lay dormant for a century.
Reina Gattuso March 3, 2020
The world's largest wine bottle held 1,590 liters of Austrian red wine—until recently.
world record

The World's Largest Bottle of Wine Just Spilled in Austria

We're gonna need a bigger napkin.
Luke Fater February 20, 2020
Ciudad Juárez, Mexico

Kentucky Club

When life gives you Prohibition, open a bar in Juárez.
Round Rock, Texas

High Country Market Bistro & GastroPub

This gas station offers wine tastings and craft beer.
A traditional spirit stirs up fresh debate among craft distillers living along the U.S.–Mexico border.
politics

The Uncertain Future of a Border-Straddling Liquor

Sotol could bring Texans and Mexicans together, or divide them.
Luke Fater February 7, 2020
Belgrade, Serbia

Gavez Klub

Tucked in an urban forest, this restaurant specializes in homemade, healing rakijas.
Atsuo Sakurai poses with his Arizona Sake equipment in Holbrook, Arizona.
deserts

The Elite Sake Brewer on Route 66

In the Arizona desert, Atsuo Sakurai found the freedom to make something great.
Abbie Gripman January 7, 2020
Miho Imada poses at her brewery in Hiroshima.
breweries

The Return of Japan’s Female Sake Brewers

Pushed out of brewing more than a century ago, they're making a comeback.
Reina Gattuso December 10, 2019
To make <em>perlas</em>, Salas sucks the mezcal through a straw.
photography

How a Master Mezcalero Makes a Unique Venison Mezcal

Meat is the secret ingredient in this take on the traditional Mexican spirit.
Lindsay Talley December 6, 2019
The barrel room.
Bayamón, Puerto Rico

Ron del Barrilito

Puerto Rico's oldest rum producer started its 140-year-old business with "a little barrel."
alcohol

A South African Couple Has Turned Elephant Dung Into Award-Winning Gin

Bottoms up!
Luke Fater November 21, 2019
Ridgedale, Missouri

Bat Bar in Lost Canyon Cave

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.
Behind the Iron Curtain, shelves were empty but champagne was affordable.
dictators

How Stalin and the Soviet Union Created a Champagne for the Working Class

In 1936, the Party suddenly switched from denouncing bubbly to mass producing it.
Jessica Gingrich November 5, 2019
The "Bacardi Bomber" now resides at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas.
military history

Bacardi's Head Honcho Once Tried to Bomb Castro's Cuba

After many a misadventure, his warplane is on display today.
Anne Ewbank October 31, 2019
The suburb of Shively is notorious for its blanket of "whiskey fungus"
whiskey

The Dark Side of the 'Angel’s Share'

Kentucky's bourbon industry is covering its neighbors in black fungus.
Anne Marshall October 30, 2019
Somerville, Massachusetts

Reliable Market

Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.
Jasper McCarthy outside of the pub established by his great-great-grandfather, Michael, in 1840.
bars

Why Ireland's Pub Owners Have Long Moonlighted as Undertakers

It helps to have cold storage and room to hold a wake.
Jessica Gingrich October 29, 2019
A miner sits at the feet of El Tio, leaving offerings for safety and prosperity.
mines

The Liquor-Soaked Devil Shrines of Bolivia's Deadliest Mine

In the heart of the Andes, Catholic miners also pray to satanic statues.
Luke Fater October 25, 2019