With PBR’s popularity slowing, the battle is on for the hipster beer market. Jennifer Fiedler on the path to becoming the symbolic brew of the alternative set, and which brand…
Though its true origins remain unknown, the phenomenon known as the shower beer was likely invented not long after the shower. Jessica Lee on the appeal of this drinking rite,…
Since the dawn of porn magazines in America, booze and nudity have been presented as the most amicable combination of vice-on-vice. Rachel Barth surveys the intersection of the two from…
Since the post-WWII years, binge drinking PSAs have focused on the destruction of gender norms, not health issues, as a dominant risk factor. Shockingly, more than 50 years later, very…
With its windowless bars, secret recipes and tropically dressed devotees, tiki culture's escapist mindset is not unlike that of science fiction's.
There is wine, and then there is Champagne. Wine can be capped by screw tops, corks, synthetic corks, even bottle caps. Champagne is secured by a twisted wire cage affixed…
How accurate are the pop cultural notions of prison drinking? Jennifer Cacicio reports on just how much modern prisoners are drinking and how they're doing it.
Images of naked women and references to everything from ejaculation to getting a woman drunk and into bed have become increasingly common on French natural wine labels. Why? Rémy Charest…
The anonymous Twitter personality "Unicorn Somm" has made a career out of lambasting famous wine professionals. But what's behind it? Steven Grubbs contemplates the impact of social media on wine…
What the evolution of Champagne's drinking vessel—from coupe to flute to wine glass—says, not only about how the wine has changed, but how we, the drinkers, have changed.
