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…

Ganbei! Baijiu Is Ready for Its Closeup

Seriously, people, why isn’t baijiu better known in this country? The Chinese beverage is the highest-volume distilled spirit in the world—mainly because the size of the population of its country of origin. But there are more people in the U.S. who have tried Italian grappa or at least know what it is and that stuff…