Editor’s note: After I visited Kentucky last year, I wrote up a gargantuan piece on my experiences in bourbon country. I’ve decided to post it in installments to spare you from such an oppressive read. Part 1: Beyond the Trail As Kentuckians in the know like to point out, the Bluegrass State contains more aging…

So this is pretty cool—not to mention timely since I just included Amarula in the latest video. The Amarula Trust, the brand’s not-for-profit, charitable arm, is supporting a new project to protect African elephants. Amarula drinkers and elephants have a lot more in common than they realize: Elephants are really big fans of the marula…

I have to admit that I don’t think I had even heard the term “izakaya” until about five or so years ago when I was heading to Vancouver. I’d asked a former local for some recommendations and she insisted that I check out the city’s izakaya scene as part of a true Vancouver experience (significant…

You haven’t really done San Francisco until you’ve done a crawl of Chinatown dive bars. Granted, they’ve become slightly less special now that they’ve been featured by the likes of Anthony Bourdain, whose disciples (of which, admittedly, I am quite a fervent one) have flocked to these hard-drinking holes in the wall amidst the many…

The first time I visited Bamberg, Germany in November 2007, I was a bit naive. I was aware of the high regard in which many a beer geek has held city as the best beer town in Deutschland. So the first time I went, I half expected the locals to be greeting me with mugs…