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Pox is often served with coffee ground–dusted orange slices and a few pieces of cacao.

Pox

This ceremonial Mayan brew has evolved into a sweet, smoky spirit in the Chiapas highlands.

Gunpowder Rum

A spirit that toasts a time when proofing your liquor meant setting it aflame.

Bakeapple Gin

A Canadian spirit made with Newfoundland's beloved berry.

Seaweed Gin

The essence of Canada's eastern coastline, distilled.

Venom Sotol at La Revolución in San Jose del Cabo.

Venom Sotol

Northern Mexico's lesser-known spirit gets a snake-based infusion.

Vermont Gold Vodka

Soften the chill of Northeastern winters with a spirit distilled from local maple sap.

Amarula Cream Liqueur

A sweet and nutty liqueur made with the fruit of the "elephant tree."

Raicilla

Meet tequila's fruity, fragrant relative.

Habushu

These bottles of Okinawan rice liquor come with a coiled pit viper.

Mellow Corn Whiskey

Long relegated to moonshine jars, aged corn whiskey is finally getting respect outside Kentucky.

Araga may be stored in an embossed leather flask called a kogeerzhik.

Araga

Traditional Tuvan booze is made from milk and distilled in a hollowed-out tree trunk.

Unicum

A bitter liqueur that traces the history of a Hungarian-Jewish family.

Feni

This triple-distilled cashew fruit liquor is a source of Goan pride.

Mezcal de Pechuga

For a meaty essence, producers dangle raw chicken breast over their stills.

Thank These Master Alchemists for the Magic of Alcohol

Two Muslim scholars invented stills that could make spirits.

Anne Ewbank February 12, 2018

Permanently Closed

Pine Plains, New York

Dutch's Spirits

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

Old pot stills

Westmeath, Ireland

Kilbeggan Distillery

The oldest licensed distillery in Ireland.

Van Brunt Moonshine

Brooklyn, New York

Van Brunt Stillhouse

Micro-distillery in Brooklyn produces New York’s first homemade rum since Prohibition.