I don’t like absinthe so I went to Switzerland to learn more about it and to have a go at making my own. I’ve always been fond of an alcohol-based day out (family holidays often consisted of visits to ...

Mardi Gras is not about partying. I mean it definitely is, but it’s about more than that. Mardi Gras is about exuberance. Obviously, it’s a drinking holiday, but you shouldn’t just drink anything; ...

I’ve been on an absinthe kick at work lately. I’ve been trying to get my coworkers on the bandwagon, but they keep wrinkling their nose at the black licorice aroma that I find so alluring. All the ...

Yesterday, we blogged about how you can make distilled absinthe, with links to websites that either sell stills or provide directions for creating homemade stills. But since distilling alcohol without ...

Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. When Claude-Alain Bugnon is not in his workshop sniffing and studying absinthe at La ...

A historically romantic liquid muse for artists, philosophers and bohemians, the ‘green fairy’ never quite came into its own on the Emerald Isle. Now one couple in Cork city is hoping to change that ...

One of the best absinthes in the world is made 60 miles northeast of Louisville. And its secret ingredient is a storied family recipe for Eastern Kentucky moonshine. No, you’re not hallucinating.

Through his web-based business, an Elmbridge man is earning his living from selling a liqueur that was banned around the world. Ian Hutton is managing director of Liqueurs de France, the sole UK ...

Atop a secret staircase, guarded by a lithe and lovely Siamese cat, a tiny lounge beckoned. The cat threaded itself about my ankles as we made sense of the skeleton key and entered what had once been ...