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Millennials Are Drinking More Gin and Tonic Than Any of Us
According to new market research, 42 percent of Brits aged 18 to 34 have drunk gin in the past 12 months, compared to 27 percent of over-45s, pushing UK sales to surpass £1 billion for the first time.
Evidently You Can Clean Up A Nuclear Dump Site With Whisky
Scientists might just have discovered a way to use spent whisky grains to clean up radioactive material. And they might just be jamming a whole bunch of said grain down a massive (and massively radioactive) shaft in Scotland.
The World's First Japanese-Scottish Whiskey Is Named for a Scottish Samurai
Now that we know there’s a whisky named after a Scottish Samurai, what’s next? We’re thinking of a schnapps named after a Mexican ninja, but we’d be loathe to forget all the hardworking Québécois gauchos with a penchant for baijiu.
Scotland Is Running Out of the Gin-Producing Juniper Plant
A new study from conservation group Plantlife has found that Scotland’s supply of juniper, the plant used to flavour gin, is being killed off by deadly fungal disease phytophthora austrocedrae.
Alabama Just Made Its First Legal Whiskey in 100 Years
No surprise that the product launch was a success. Alabama, after all, has been waiting for homegrown whiskey for a very long time.
Hey France, This Cornish Distiller Might Make Better Pastis Than You
A Cornwall-based distiller is beating French distillers at their own game and making the UK's only pastis, a wheat spirit with notes of aniseed, liquorice root, and fennel.
This Kentucky Distillery Is Blasting David Bowie Songs to Flavor Its Brandy
Joe Heron of Louisville's Copper & Kings distillery says that “happy brandy makes happy drinking,” and believes that the gentle vibrations of music assist in the aging process for his craft spirits. He draws the line at Katy Perry, though.
Liverpool Is Staging a Gin and Tonic Revolution
With a growing number of dedicated gin bars and a small batch distillery intent on building the foundations of a “gin revolution,” Liverpool bartenders are making the classic gin and tonic their own.
Gin and Tonic Tastes Better with Ants
Culinary research organisation, the Nordic Food Lab has worked with a British distillery to create a gin using red wood ants, an insect with a subtle, citrus-like flavour.
Brighton’s First Distillery Is Trying to Make Hangover-Free Gin
The seaside town’s first distillery has created a gin with orange, lime, and milk thistle, which contains silibinin: an ingredient shown to protect liver cells against damage from toxins.
Israeli's Craft Distilleries Are Giving Arak a Second Life
A Lebanese Christian who once fought Hezbollah is but one of a handful of distillers who have settled in the Galilee, a region in northern Israel best-known as Jesus's stomping grounds. There, they are giving traditional liquor a new life.
Kentucky's Whiskey Fungus Problem Is Out of Control
Residents of Shively, Kentucky used take the black soot that covered their homes and cars as a given, not realizing that it was a preventable fungus caused by the nearby whiskey distilleries.