Drinkable Image: St. George Spirits, Alameda, California

Before there even was a craft spirits movement, there was St. George Spirits, founded in 1982. The company is known for its gin trio, Botanivore, Terroir and Dry Rye and a host of other innovations. When absinthe was legalized in the U.S. in 2007, St. George was the first out of the gate with its…

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Image(s) of the Day: Bitter in L.A.

You’ll be like a kid in a candy store—if you’ve got a “sweet tooth” for classic cocktail accoutrements and barware—when you visit Barkeeper in L.A.’s Silver Lake district. A person could spend hours just browsing through the shop’s selection of artisanal bitters (top photo). If gin’s your thing, Barkeeper’s Ginspiration wheel (bottom) offers all of the colors—and…

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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.

Image(s) of the Day: Camden Town Brewery, London, U.K.

The United Kingdom’s brewing traditions were among those that influenced craft brewing in the U.S. Now, American craft brewers are influencing the U.K.’s burgeoning craft beer scene right back. U.S. brewers adopted, then adapted British styles such as pale ales and IPAs and the versions that up-and-coming U.K.breweries have been producing have considerably more in common…

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Image(s) of the Day: Black Isle, Scotland, U.K.

Scotland, like many other parts of the world, is in the midst of a craft brewing revolution. In the north, just outside of Inverness, lies Black Isle and the all-organic brewery of the same name. The operation is fairly isolated on a farm in an area where there are far more sheep—black sheep, at that—than…

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Image of the Day: Kumamoto, Japan

Kumamoto, on the southernmost Japanese island of Kyushu, has an enormously popular mascot, Kumamon—so popular that he inspired a local watering hole, KumaBar.