Liquor News

What is a Martini? "The martini is a cocktail made with gin and vermouth. Sometimes, vodka is substituted for gin, although this is properly called a vodka martini or vodkatini.

Some ice cream with that macaron, perhaps? The new line from LadurA©e offers nine flavors of ice cream and sorbet in four-ounce cups, each one of them crowned with its own matching macaron shell.

In 1789 Elijah Craig founded the first bourbon whiskey distillery in the part of Virginia that would later become Kentucky .

This month, lovers of beer and irony everywhere have been thoroughly enjoying the fact that everyone's weirdest kid band, Hanson, have not only grown up, come of age and started playing music again, but they've also launched their own beer--and it's called Mmmhops .

Based on its name, you might think MoonShine Tavern is strictly a place that's good for shots and not much else.

Ballard has more breweries than you can shake a stick at , but what it doesn't have is a distillery with a focus on special bounce liqueurs which is open for public tastings.

Scottish start-up Celtic Renewables is bringing back a once popular fermentation process that it says can be used to produce superior next-generation biofuels from the byproducts of various biological industries.

Steeped in revolution, used to sterilise wounds and cure ailments by Red Army soldiers, and popular enough to be gifted to foreign dignitaries - what gives this sorghum spirit its mystique? Of all the multitude of strong spirits offered by countries across the globe, Maotai certainly deserves a place standing among the greatest of renowned sippers ... (more)

After about a year of anticipation, Huahua's Taqueria opens today. The fast casual Chihuahua-themed restaurant opens today at 11 a.m. for lunch, serving up a menu of tacos, enchiladas, and a variety of sides.

Model and cooking enthusiast Jourdan Dunn is joined on her cooking show "Well Dunn" by rapper Wale .

'We want to save another family from going through hell': Parents of poisoned British backpacker, 23, demand Indonesian shopkeeper's arrest for selling her methanol The family of a young British backpacker who died after drinking poisonous methanol labelled as gin have demanded the arrest of the shopkeeper who sold her the deadly concoction.

This grilled chicken has some rum and lots of great sweet flavors to contrast the alcohol.

The bourbon business in Kentucky is growing at a rate not seen since before Prohibition.

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states cannot on their own require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens.

Berry Bros & Rudd has lined up the launch of the latest vintage of its The Glenrothes single malt Scotch whisky.

Location - Ireland, off-trade and at Dublin airport, then rolling out to the UK, Canada, NZ, Belgium, Germany and France Teeling Whiskey Co has lined up the first expression in its vintage reserve collection.

Fingers crossed for members of Stranraer's Lochryan Pipe Band, whose members are practising in earnest in the hope that they will be crowned grade 4B champions when they compete at the European Pipe Band Championships, sponsored by Benromach Speyside Single Malt Whisky, in Forres, Moray, on Saturday, June 29. The band, which celebrated its 80th ... (more)

IT'S official: South Africa loves whisky. Once seen as a nation of brandy-swigging, beer-boeped wine-quaffers, this country is turning to whisky in a big way - it is now the fifth largest consumer of Scotch whisky in the world.

"No," he said. "You should use it in your house margaritas, it makes them better and it's all natural too."

I FELL in love with rum when I first visited the Caribbean. It was the moment when I realised how specialist rum can be and, indeed, how many varieties you can find.