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

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.
The pub's old entrance with Heineken logo.
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.
history

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.
collections

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.
Gastro Obscura

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.
ships

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.
Parties where playwrights like Moliere read aloud were precursors to rowdy book clubs.
libraries

Even in the 1700s, Book Clubs Were Really About Drinking and Socializing

And "a considerable element of boisterous good humor."
Sarah Laskow June 26, 2017
A bottle of Allen's among Allen's knitted hats.
coffee

Why Maine Is Mad for This Coffee-Flavored Liqueur

Allen's Coffee Brandy is more popular than vodka or whiskey.
Dan Nosowitz June 21, 2017
An older toe.
hotels

Stolen: An Amputated Toe Used to Make Cocktails

The Downtown Hotel's famous "Sourtoe Cocktail" is now missing its garnish.
Cara Giaimo June 20, 2017
Real or fake?
science

How to Catch a (Whiskey) Counterfeiter

Use science to make it glow.
Kelsey Kennedy June 9, 2017
Empty bottles of Vodka and Buckfast, lay outside a disused house in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.
food

How a Tonic Wine Brewed by Monks Became the Scourge of Scotland

Despite its pious origins, Buckfast has become associated with hooliganism.
Natasha Frost June 7, 2017
Noble rot causes grapes to lose water and shrivel up, but it's not all bad news.
science

How Noble Rot Makes for a Better, Peachier White Wine

Scientists compared how different fungi affect a wine's bouquet.
Kelsey Kennedy May 30, 2017