Imbibe Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

For Jorge Riera , the headline-making, French-heavy wine lists he created for New York City’s Frenchette aren’t especially new—for him. To Jon Bonné, managing editor of Resy and author of The New French Wine (Ten Speed Press, 2023), the return of France as a dominant news peg in the wine world feels a little like a homecoming.

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Imbibe Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Intrigued by the growing presence of Slovenian wine on store shelves and wine lists, we dove into the category in our March/April 2024 issue. Daniel Lukin-Beck, general manager of Vinum Imports , which has specialized in wines from the country for more than 20 years, offered an introduction in our “5 to Try” column.

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Imbibe Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

One of our 2024 Imbibe 75 Places to Watch, The Ruby Fruit —a buzzed-about restaurant and wine bar in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighborhood and the city’s first lesbian bar in years—is all about cultivating a welcoming, community-minded space. Terah Wine Co. Terah Wine Co. ’s Or a bottle for the table!”

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Spiritz

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Café hoppers in select cities of Uttar Pradesh will soon have the option of ordering a beer or wine with their meal. According to the new UP excise policy for 2025-26, low-alcohol bars — which serve only beer and wine — will pop up in Noida, Ghaziabad, Agra and Lucknow.

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Imbibe Magazine

JULY 10, 2024

In 2022, the duo built an outdoor wine garden in an empty Fishtown lot and poured glasses of minimal-intervention MCC wines—made with Pennsylvania grapes—from a refurbished trolley. By night, Forîn hosts residencies for local restaurants, and pours wine, beer, and cocktails, like an Espresso Martini with house coffee.

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Imbibe Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2024

His intimate Los Angeles bar, Alma’s Cider & Beer , which opened in 2021, is a 558-square-foot jewel box bathed in three shades of blue, decorated with quirky dioramas and a chandelier evoking flying saucers. A person-by-person palate shift helps Alma’s cultivate a customer base crossing over from sour ales or natural wines.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 31, 2024

When its time to ring in the new year, most drinkers will probably raise a glass of Champagne , Prosecco , or some other sparkling wine. And then comes the beer. It is not a wine-beer hybrid, and it has nothing to do with Miller High Lifes claim to be the Champagne of Beers. But beer is more something I discovered.

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Imbibe Magazine

MAY 20, 2024

Instead, Bailey’s Cadet Wine + Beer Bar played a major role in the revitalization of Napa’s formerly sleepy downtown. Photo courtesy of Folklore Cadet You may find yourself on the barstool next to the winemaker whose bottle you just ordered at this welcoming industry hangout just off Napa’s main drag. Naysayer espresso.

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Imbibe Magazine

JULY 3, 2024

An advanced sommelier and alum of spots like New York City’s Eleven Madison Park, de Pano opened her wine shop in late 2022 and highlights terroir-driven wines, with a particular affinity for low alcohol and high acid. Who wants to crush a 16 percent bottle of wine when the sun’s blazing?” And clocking in at 10.5

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JULY 26, 2024

Some genuinely unfortunate news from Averie Swanson, owner of Keeping Together , the beer brand founded in Chicago that’s working to open a space in Santa Fe, NM. They actually sat down with the offending customer and had a beer together. You’ll get Dovetail beer and four samples of landjaeger, so how can you pass that up?

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Imbibe Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Averie Swanson is one of the most respected brewers of mixed-fermentation beer in the country, yet she’s never had a brick-and-mortar location to call her own. Fans have been able to find Swanson’s creations in Chicago and at various festivals and events, but Keeping Together beers demand a dedicated place.

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Imbibe Magazine

APRIL 2, 2024

Dave O’Brien’s wine-focused vermouth has its origin story in a great vacation. “On Among the many aspects of Basque culture that O’Brien enjoyed was Txakoli , the dry, white wine made from the Hondarrabi Zuri grape. (A A rosé version from a related grape is more prominent on the export market than it is in the wine’s home region.)

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VinePair

MARCH 4, 2024

Whether it be the hop resins at the bottom of an IPA , the yeast at the bottom of a saison , or the wheat floating around in a hefeweizen , most beer drinkers have been faced with a millimeter of sketchy-looking dregs sitting in their glass. ’s Nebuleus Beer. Is it safe to drink beer dregs? It doesn’t give you the sh*ts.

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Imbibe Magazine

JUNE 10, 2024

United embraces its Midwest roots with cans of the cult-favorite craft beer Two Hearted IPA from Michigan brewery Bell’s. I make it all the time now when I’m in the air, since it’s low-ABV and only two ingredients: Coca-Cola and red wine,” she says. Even the flight route can play a factor. “I

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Imbibe Magazine

JUNE 11, 2024

When the team behind Oxalis , a Michelin-starred restaurant in Brooklyn, opened Clinton Hill wine bar Place des Fêtes in 2022, beverage director Piper Kristensen knew exactly what he didn’t want to do: re-create the same-old, same-old bistronomy-style French-heavy list. Spanish wine—even great Spanish wine—isn’t new to stateside customers.

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Imbibe Magazine

MAY 12, 2024

And aside from a trim list of wine, beer, and classic cocktails, Bar Americano doubles down on drinkers’ rediscovered interest in vermouth , with a selection running more than 50 deep from Spain, France, and Italy. Lise & Vito If your query is where to find natural wine in Greenpoint, the answer is … well, virtually anywhere.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Spend enough time enjoying, collecting, or working with wine, and you’ve come across them. Thick, heavy glass bottles certainly had their moment in the sun. Regular sized 750-milliliter bottles? But recently, if slowly, the wine world seems to have finally caught on to the magnificent absurdity of it all. The message?

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 18, 2024

Whether you’re seeking a well-made craft cocktail, a beer brewed with local ingredients, or an education on mezcal, Tucson brings it home. In addition to their signature Old Fashioned, the bar, bottle shop, and part-time bakery crafts cocktails like the Notorious F.I.G. with bourbon, sweet vermouth, and fig and allspice liqueurs.

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VinePair

MAY 21, 2024

now has a selection of local microbreweries, there are still moments that call for a good old macro beer. You might find yourself in a dive bar or at a sports arena without a wide selection of craft brews, or you could end up at a party or tailgate where the hosts have opted to lean into a more affordable beer lineup.

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Imbibe Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2023

These days, when you hear the sound of a cork popping, there’s a good chance a bottle of Prosecco is nearby. million bottles of the bubbly stuff were sold in 2022. ” But with more education comes a willingness to try exemplary Prosecco, and with that willingness comes more awareness of the wine’s many virtues. .”

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Chilled Magazine

JUNE 7, 2024

Most of us who love alcohol beverages enjoy attending tastings at expos, restaurants, wine and liquor stores to taste and discuss aromas amd flavors of beverages. Many attendees also belong to beer, wine, or whiskey clubs. Beer glasses: Certain shapes have become identified with specific beers since the medieval era.

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Imbibe Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2024

But if you want to try creating your own ice-cold bottled cocktail, Hirsch shared some of his tips, including how not to accidentally turn your favorite drink into a 750ml popsicle. And even though his take on the El Diablo spices up the classic with ginger liqueur, it still requires a top off of ginger beer.

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Imbibe Magazine

JULY 1, 2024

Eduard Viader grabs a bottle from a riddling rack, pulls off the metal brace that secured the cork, and with his index finger covering the closure to keep it from flying off, uses his clawlike wrench to ease the cork out of the bottle. He spins the bottle to tamp down the fizz and turns it upright.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

We dont say this as a braggadocious claim of influence, but rather to point out that the grape variety remains widely popular despite many winemakers efforts to push esoteric wines on their customers. The impulse to promote lesser-known juice isnt unique to the wine industry, but producers embracing and acting upon that impulse certainly is.

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VinePair

JULY 9, 2024

Despite its location in the heart of America’s most prestigious wine region, the city of Napa didn’t land on many people’s radars 10 years ago. No one is more attuned to the changes than Aubrey Bailey and Taylor Domin, the owners of Cadet Wine and Beer. Instead, wine (and beer) are the foundations on which it was built.

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Imbibe Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The delight found in opening an unexpected bottle of wine is right up there with stumbling across a sunsetsheer ephemeral joy. And so it was when I popped the cork on the Johan Vineyards Savagnin, a wine I knew nothing about and immediately, thoroughly, enjoyed.

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VinePair

JANUARY 11, 2024

Unlike wine enthusiasts, beer nerds face one particular restriction when they get their hands on a grailed bottle of suds: There’s really no saving it for a special occasion. Does Beer Expire? No, beer doesn’t expire per se. Time Beer can’t escape it, and neither can we.

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Imbibe Magazine

MAY 14, 2024

Tonya Cornett started her brewing career in the burgeoning craft scene of mid-’90s Colorado and discovered a knack for the process-driven creativity of making beer. This April she won one of the most prestigious awards in beer: the Brewers Association’s Russell Schehrer Award for Innovation in Craft Brewing.

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Chilled Magazine

APRIL 4, 2024

Below, you’ll find two of their delicious cocktails using Lucky Saint, The UK’s #1 dedicated alcohol-free beer! Vanilla and Lucky Saint Beer reduction* Preparation: Add all the ingredients into a shaker and single strain into a highball with ice cubes. Vanilla and Lucky Saint Beer reduction* Ingredients: 660 ml. Sugar 100 g.

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VinePair

AUGUST 14, 2024

craft beer has been around so long that it’s experienced several significant booms and several subsequent busts. If craft breweries were once started by people with a pure passion for drinking “better beer,” eventually they started to be seen as easy money by entrepreneurial types. Samuel Adams (Boston Beer Co.):

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Imbibe Magazine

MAY 24, 2024

Honestly, “it’s Tuesday” was reason enough to pop open a bottle of Lambrusco from the range I had recently received from historic Emilia-Romagna producer Cleto Chiarli. We threw together an impromptu charcuterie board and popped a bottle of the Vecchia Modena Premium.

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Imbibe Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

La Ruina’s cocktail menu highlights ‘revitalized’ staple cocktails made with specialty tequila, rum, wine, and mezcal.” The restaurant’s bar and accompanying wine cellar offer equally impressive programs. Adjacent to the dining room, The Cellar holds more than 1,200 wines from around the world,” says Galicia.

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VinePair

JUNE 25, 2024

1 craft beer style in America, if not the world. In that time, we’ve seen the beer industry go from malty English IPAs to dank West Coast options — teeth-chatteringly bitter double and then triple and even quadruple IPAs — to softer, fruitier, and hazier New England-style options. What can I say, it was a different time.

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Chilled Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2024

SommCon®, the premier event for wine, beer, and spirits professionals, will return to San Diego’s Town & Country Resort from October 5-7, 2024. Attendees will also be able to engage in buyer-supplier meetings, view award-winning products, and visit the Bottle Shot Lounge for professional product photography.

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Imbibe Magazine

JULY 12, 2024

Learning about wine is also an excellent way to learn about geography. With a commercial industry that only really began in the 1970s, the wines of New Zealand still only represent about 1 percent of the global market. It was Sauvignon Blanc that put the country on the world’s wine radar.

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VinePair

JUNE 23, 2024

Wine tourism is a bonafide industry. But beer tourism? Even then, taking a vacation devoted to beer is a harder thing to justify. Nonetheless, there are stellar breweries around the country that bring beer nerds to their taprooms every year to score their most coveted releases. Curating such a list is no small feat.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

AUGUST 26, 2024

Attorney Mark Kocol has been a hands-on owner, handling brewing, bottling, delivering sixtels, you name it. Shaw Local has a big list of local craft beer festivals taking place around the ‘burbs in the coming months, just in case we miss some of these in future Friday emails. and they want your help in naming it.

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