200 year old wines found in hidden cellar in New Jersey
Museum workers at the Liberty Hall Museum at Kean University in Union, NJ made an amazing discovery this past week. They broke through a Prohibition-era wall and found a hidden locked wooden cage containing over 50 bottles and 42 demijohns of extremely rare Madeira...
The U.S. liqueur market is showing steady growth
Recent trends towards more cocktails and mixed drinks as well as the growth of at-home based mixed drinks have led to steady growth for the liqueur market this past year. The growth in the category is expected to continue with the growing number of millennials...
World’s first whiskey biofuel-powered car is set to hit the streets
As if we needed a reason to enjoy our whiskey more, Celtic Renewables is an Edinburgh-based start-up company that has worked closely with Tullibardine Distillery (A whiskey producer) to develop the fuel to power their revolutionary new car. Celtic Renewables uses...
World’s first whiskey biofuel-powered car is set to hit the streets
As if we needed a reason to enjoy our whiskey more, Celtic Renewables is an Edinburgh-based start-up company that has worked closely with Tullibardine Distillery (A whiskey producer) to develop the fuel to power their revolutionary new car. Celtic Renewables uses...
U.S. hop acreage growth driven by new beer flavors
The Pacific Northwest’s hop acreage (Idaho, Oregon and Washington specifically) is growing rapidly, fueled by demand from craft brewers to develop and produce new beer flavors to satisfy the ever evolving tastes of consumers. “There is a massive desire by craft beer...
World’s first underwater winery in Croatia
As if you needed another reason to visit Croatia, with its rich, old world history mixed with new world experiences and amazing food, a new experience is coming to the country that will wow you. Edivo Vina, located on the Peljesac peninsula, will soon begin allowing...
Craft distillers exploring new flavors of gin
A few craft distillers are looking into some interesting new methods of producing gin that are leading to new flavor profiles. Barrel aged gins might be the new crazy soon, even though U.S. regulators don’t technically recognize “aged gin” as a spirit type. Producers...
Beer and the history of America
Most people don’t tie beer back to the founding days of this country and our growth as a nation, but if you look back through history beer has played an integral role in our growth from immigration to urbanization. In the 1800’s more than 1 million German immigrants...
Winemakers looking to lighter wines
Lighter wines with lower alcohol content have been rising in popularity in recent years. For a long time the traditional bold, high alcohol content wines dominated the wine market but that trend has been slowly shifting as a new generation of wine drinkers is looking...