Drink

Two years have passed since a federal jury convicted Rudy Kurniawan, a prominent wine collector, of fraud for selling counterfeit wines. When the FBI raided Kurniawan’s home in March 2013, they discovered thousands of fake wine labels and hundreds of bottles and ...

One recent Saturday morning, a friend sent me the wine list for Green Zebra, one of Chicago’s top vegetarian restaurants, and asked for my advice. He was dining there that evening with friends who enjoyed wine but weren’t obsessive about it. So he would be tasked ...

This is pretty much how most brew days go,” Chris Hastings of Bristol Brewing says with a smile and a shrug, “one guy working...

When I was in college, we drank beer. When my sons were in college, they drank draft beer. But when my granddaughter was in...

If you’re like me, you’re eager for breweries to open at full capacity — to try samplers of beers and unique taproom-only offerings; to...

Bourbon aficionado Fred Minnick recently placed Boulder Spirits’ 5-Year Straight Bourbon as the number 10-ranked whiskey released in the U.S. in 2022. “The biggest surprise...

Beer lovers rarely need an excuse to toss back a few pints. But if you’re looking for one, Saint Patrick’s Day (Monday, March 17) generally qualifies. And there’s some decent happenings this week to toast the patron saint of green on green outfits and bad decision ...

Where you drink is just as important as what you drink. I once advised my sister to always survey the crowd when she entered...

Earlier this month, Fate Brewing Company announced that Denise Jones — formerly of Moylan’s Brewing and Distilling Company and Third Street Aleworks, both located...

You don’t have to be an economist to see that trends drive marketing. And when it comes to craft beer, that trend is “new”...

February is typically the time of year when we talk about stouts, but don’t sleep on stout’s predecessor, porter, when it comes to dark-beer...

Adam Avery was at a boss’s Super Bowl Party in 1991 when he had his “a-ha” moment. He had just been accepted to law...