Archive for January, 2012
• Pernod Ricard plans Absinthe campaign
Pernod Ricard is looking to reignite the fortunes of its absinthe brand following last year’s legalisation of the spirit in France after a nearly a century of prohibition. The company is set to launch a marketing campaign which plays on the drink’s cultural history. The French drinks giant first produced the spirit, commonly referred to [...]
• A champagne glass for all seasons…and all Champagnes
A glass is being launched in the UK which promises to be the perfect shape for Champagne, whatever the style. First manufactured in 1999, the glass has been created by Champagne specialist Richard Juhlin at Sweden’s Reijmyre Glassworks, and has, until now, only been sold in Sweden, although it is used by a handful of [...]
• 15 Very Important Things You Should Know About Bourbon
Southerners drink bourbon like the French drink wine: with pride and abandon. But how much does the average whiskey drinker know about America’s liquid gift to the world? We gave you the rundown on bourbon in our February issue, but here are a few more facts to keep you well-stocked with Kentuckian anecdotes. Bourbon, Defined [...]
• The Only Chart You Need To Mix A Proper Cocktail – 200 of ‘em
Pop Chart Lab takes you behind the scenes of creating its newest infographic, a massive chart showing 200 cocktails–including what’s in them and what the proportions should be. It wasn’t easy. We’d been trying to complete a chart of cocktails for over a year. It’s sorta been Pop Chart Lab’s white whale. This journey started, [...]
• Super Bowl 2012: Beer Lover’s Guide to the Giants and the Patriots
The combatants are determined. The New York Giants and New England Patriots are set to square off in Super Bowl XLVI, a rematch of four years ago. From that game, 15 Giants players and eight Patriots remain on their respective teams, including starting quarterbacks Eli Manning and Tom Brady. With the season ending Sunday, I [...]
• Liquor sales surge, steal market share from beer
The U.S. stock market’s worst performance in three years didn’t damp Americans’ taste for cocktails. Spirits sales by suppliers including Beam Inc. and Brown- Forman Corp. rose 4 percent to $19.9 billion in 2011, the Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S. said today at its annual industry update in New York. Americans weren’t afraid to [...]
• Moscato Madness: The Dessert Wine’s Sweet Surge
In the U.S., wine drinking has held its own during these hard economic times, and even grown in some unlikely corners. Moscato, for example, the Italian dessert wine, has gone from relative obscurity to the toast of the town. Hip-hop singer Drake, in his song “Do It Now,” gives it a shout-out. It’s also the [...]
• Calling all bartenders: The Swizzle Masters competition is back!
The overall winner of the free online competition will be taken on an all-expenses-paid trip to the home of Wenneker in The Netherlands, as well as membership with the UKBG and a gold-plated bartender’s kit from Urban Bar. Entering is simple: all you need to do is enter your cocktail recipes online at www.swizzlemasters.com. Each [...]
• Crafty: Montreal’s craft beer scene
Second-largest city in Canada is heart of our neighbor’s brewing revolution. There’s something about Montreal. Maybe it’s the city’s bilingualism. Maybe it’s the multiculturalism. Maybe it’s the infusion of youthful energy that stems from having the highest concentration of college students in North America. It’s hard to peg, but there’s something different about Canada’s second-largest [...]
• How Jews Stayed in Good Spirits During Prohibition
Raising a Glass to America! Sociologist Nathan Glazer has written that “a people’s relation to alcohol represents something very deep about it.” That this statement rings especially true for Jews is the premise of University of Georgia professor Marni Davis’s new book, “Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition.” As Davis explores [...]
• Dogfish Head Announces Beer / Wine Hybrid Noble Rot
Clay is the perfect material for capturing time in a bottle. As molecular biologists have discovered by unearthing ancient tombs, organic residue trapped in porous chards of pottery reveals quite a bit about what our ancestors drank on the special occasions of burial feasts. It’s interesting that thousands of years ago – in places such [...]
• Is that a bottle of tequila in your pants or are you just happy to see me?
Weapon-shaped liquor bottles popular with collectors. Taking shots of tequila has taken on new meaning. Elaborate glass tequila bottles in red, blue and white — shaped like pistols, AK-47s, rifles, machetes and bullets — have been surfacing in the Rio Grande Valley in the past year or so. The bottles — in sharp contrast to the clean [...]
• Another soul-less beer hits the shelves as Budweiser unveils new lighter beer
The much-hyped new beer, Bud Light Platinum, from Anheuser Busch InBev has finally hit shelves. Touted as not quite Bud Light, and not actually Budweiser, the beer is said to “appeal to a key group of beer drinkers and expands consumer occasion.” Bud Light Platinum has 6 percent alcohol by volume and 137 calories. In [...]
• Design and name your own real Scottish whisky blend
Scottish Whisky Blender is a site that enables visitors to design and name their own custom whisky blends. It was not long ago that we wrote about Alchemist Dreams and their customizable liqueurs, and now we’ve come across a similar idea with a slight twist. Scottish Whisky Blender is a site that enables visitors to [...]
