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Spirits

A Complete Guide to Buying and Drinking Mezcal

As the international thirst for mezcal grows, consumer choices have never been more important to its future. Here, our best practices for enjoying mezcal.

  • story: Emma Janzen
  • photos: Emma Janzen
Guadalajara Punch
Cocktails

Guadalajara Punch Is Built to Please

Sometimes known as the Cazuela or Cazuela Voladora ("Flying Casserole"), the tequila-based cocktail is a cantina staple throughout the city.

  • story: Austa Somvichian-Clausen
  • photos: Alonso Romero Mendez
Spirits

To Come of (Drinking) Age on YouTube

"Truth or Drink?" The confessional, unscripted video trend features the platform's early influencers ditching their kid-friendly images.

  • story: Mary Anne Porto
  • illustration: María Jesús Contreras
Drink Your Words

The Mixologist Has Nine Lives

At once modern and antiquated, humorous and self-serious, the term’s contradictions form the very DNA of bartending.

  • story: Danny Chau
  • illustration: Mallory Heyer
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Wine

Drink Culture Doesn’t Have a “Foodie.” Here’s Why.

The term is now the food world’s most universally maligned, but is not having an equivalent worse?

  • story: Danny Chau
  • illustration: Mallory Heyer
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For the Record

The Silent Shake Heard Round the World

How a once-obscure technique changed frothy drinks forever.

  • story: Robert Simonson
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
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Beer

What Will Be the Next Hipster Beer?

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…

  • story: Jennifer Fiedler
  • photo: Diesel Demon
Shower Beer
Beer

The Enduring Allure of the Shower Beer

The drinking rite has spawned online communities and accessories dedicated to it.

  • story: Jessica Lee
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
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Cocktails

When Nude Magazines Met Booze: A Love Story

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…

  • story: Rachel Barth
  • photos: Jim Linderman
Spirits

A Brief History of the Binge Drinking PSA

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…

  • story: Rachel Barth
  • photo: The Sphere
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Not Your Grandfather’s Blended Scotch
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Not Your Grandfather’s Blended Scotch

Long considered an afterthought among serious drinkers, the blended Scotch category is slowly becoming a hotbed for innovation.

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