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Cocktails

How to Build an Activist Bar

Charity saloons, “philanthropubs” and other bars that raise money for charity herald the arrival of the bar-as-social statement.

  • story: Kara Newman
  • photos: Eric Medsker
Beer

The Stories Behind Five Anti-Trump Beers

A growing number of breweries across the country have been creating recipes for new beers that directly confront the Trump administration. Here are five, and the stories behind them.

  • story: Kenny Herzog
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
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Places

America’s Role in Latest Fight for Small Mezcal

Big distilleries in Mexico are waging a battle for market share in the U.S., often at the expense of small producers. Sarah Bowen on how a new proposition—NOM 199—threatens the…

  • story: Sarah Bowen
  • photo: David Suro
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Spirits

Let Us Now Retire the Whiskey Woman

The latest in a lineage of "bro-girl" archetypes, the "whiskey-drinking woman" has become such a common trope in pop culture that's she's now a cliché. But who is this woman?…

  • story: Courtney Balestier
  • illustration: Maddie Edgar
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Places

Can a Group of Bartenders Save Mezcal?

Concerned by growing threats to the history, culture and livelihood of traditional mezcal, five bartenders and one producer formed the Tequila Interchange Project (TIP). Shanna Farrell on how TIP is…

  • story: Shanna Farrell
  • photo: David Suro
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Wine

Nicolas Joly and the Loire’s Wine Culture War

In the Loire Valley—the hotbed of the natural wine movement—a growing number of producers are at odds with the region's regulatory body. Zachary Sussman on the significance of iconic winemaker…

  • story: Zachary Sussman
  • photo: La Coulée de Serrant
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Places

The Strange Paradox That Is Drinking in Dubai

Dubai is notorious for its paradoxical drinking culture, which is equal parts prohibitionist and over-the-top. Andrew Madigan on his year spent working as a Guinness taste-tester in the city's bars…

  • story: Andrew Madigan
  • illustration: Natalie K Nelson
article

Why Don’t Booze Labels List Nutrition Facts?

Ever wonder why, unlike everything else in your pantry, alcoholic drinks don’t have labels touting calories, carbs and other nutritional information? According to Vox, there’s been a long history of…

  • story: Stephen Praetorius
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article

Turkish Wine Advertising: Not Seen But Definitely Heard

Strict regulations on alcohol sales and marketing in Turkey has winemakers getting creative with promotion. According to Forbes, advertising in its most common terms is forbidden: no campaigns, no tastings,…

  • story: Janet Lee
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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