Drinkable Week: Craft beer up 16%, the Pogues whiskey & Baijiu Day

On the latest episode of The Drinkable Week: The American brewery count approaches 4K, some whiskey for the Christmas Eve drunk tank and a day celebrating the world’s biggest spirit. • The Brewers Association this week released its mid-year figures for the craft beer segment…and it was pretty much more of the same. For the first six…

Introducing…The Drinkable Week!

We’re excited to present the inaugural edition of The Drinkable Week, hosted by Jeff Cioletti, founder of The Drinkable Globe and author of the upcoming book, The Year of Drinking Adventurously. We kick off our weekly drinking news show with a few thoughts on Steven Soderbergh’s Singani 63, Cachaça and saké. We’d love to hear…

Image of the Day: The Pot Still, Glasgow, Scotland

Glasgow pub the Pot Still is a whisky-lover’s paradise. The bar stocks more than 600 selections from Scotland, as well as other parts of the whisk(e)y-making world. A list like that can be intimidating, but the super-knowledgeable bartenders are more than happy to help make sense of it.

Copper & Kings Expands Rapidly

Bourbon is usually what draws travelers to Louisville (besides horses, of course), but the Copper & Kings distillery, in the city’s Butchertown neighborhood, is giving drinkers another reason to visit. When most other distillers in the state of Kentucky are focused primarily on whiskey-making, Copper & Kings is distinguishing itself by dedicating its production to brandy and…