The Spirit World

Few years ago, Caipirinha shows in all serious researches about the style of drinking, as one of the recipes of most world increase. We can find the combination of lemon, sugar and cachaça around the world, from Canada to Switzerland, from South Africa to Japan. Now what is behind this brazilians fever must be carefully […]

Apparently HPNOTIQ is, and to quote, “An exotic aqua-marine blue liqueur made from premium  vodka, tropical fruit juices and a touch of cognac, Hpnotiq has become a real favourite with A-list celebrities including Beyonce Knowles, Paris Hilton and Justin Timberlake“.
Now we know and all feel enlightened I am sure. Never seen it myself but then […]

Southern Living magazine recently ran a piece on grabbing celebratory drinks while on the go this holiday season. One of the drinks they featured was Grandma’s Cookies, a drink hailing from The Ritz-Carlton on Amelia Island in Florida. 
Served in a martini glass that is rimmed with red sugar and filled with “shaken-not-stirred cinnamon Schnapps, butterscotch […]

Southern Living magazine recently ran a piece on grabbing celebratory drinks while on the go during the upcoming holiday season. One of the drinks they featured was Black Dog Mulled Wine, a drink hailing from the Chateau Morrisette in Floyd, Virginia. They take a semidry, red wine and heat and infuse it with “cinnamon sticks, […]

The Bar Room at The Modern, at The Museum of Modern Art, is a study on how to place the Bauhaus and twenty-first century Danish design pieces found in the museum in a contemporary, chic, and comfortable setting. 
Several doors east of MoMA on East Fifty-Third Street in New York, a serene white curving tunnel leads […]

There is a lot of mystique and intrigue around Absinthe. The spirit was banned in the United States at some point in the early 1900s due to its apparent effects on the mind. The chemical thujone was thought to be to blame for the hallucinogenic effects on heavy Absinthe drinkers but recent studies found only […]

 
In the UK the pressure group CAMRA, the Campaign For Real Ale, has just released new research showing that a shocking 26.6% of pints served in pubs are short measure by more than 5%. This is costing consumers a whopping £1.3 million every single day. 
It might not sound like much but over a busy week, stretching over […]

The UK’s chief beer competition, the International Beer Challenge, has just opened their website. The competition bills itself as the largest packaged beer competition in the world.
Each year, the Challenge discovers and rewards the finest beers from across the globe and, in association with Off Licence News, a UK trade newspaper, publishes it’s list of […]

The first time I encountered batidas were in a college Spanish class.
If you have ever had the pleasure of studying another language you probably remember textbooks filled with ostensible scenes of the culture in which you are immersing yourself. These pictures always show people happily milling about the areas that need to be learned, and […]

When thinking of something to do for my first post, I immediately thought of Greek drinks.
My mother is Greek and I thought it would be easier to attempt to fill Brenda Pederson’s shoes if I started with something familiar. Ouzo seemed too common, so I chose retsina wine.
Retsina has been produced in Greece for over […]