Welcome to The PUNCHbowl, a weekly installment where we share our favorite longreads on all things drinks and nightlife. This week, we speculated on the real influence of Champagne, traveled to Ireland with…
South London pub Conquering Hero has long welcomed Vietnamese pot-bellied pig Frances Bacon as its resident pet, but lately Bacon has been boozing it up a little too much, says Modern…
Let’s face it, non-alcoholic beer will never be beer. And for teetotalers, that's a bummer. Scientists at Spain’s University of Valladolid though, may have come up with a way to bridge…
Hops. Barley. Malt. These are the astoundingly simple ingredients you hope to find in the beer you've been drinking. Modern Farmer reports, however, that plastic, and a slew of other…
Barrel aging is the new black, it seems. According to Modern Farmer, the latest trend amongst food fetishists and experimental drinkers is continuing to grow more popular despite an impending shortage of…
A team of scientists at Cornell University invented a microchip that can be inserted directly into plants to tell farmers when to water, according to Modern Farmer. This new technology…
What is that special something that makes some wines, beers and cheeses smell like—for lack a better term—crap? It's the Brettanomyces, a wild yeast strain that was first identified in…
