SKÅL!!!
A city of 600,000 has 35 breweries with 45-plus brands—the highest per capita number of breweries in Scandinavia. Gothenburg’s rep as a cool beer town is skyrocketing.
Liza is a New York-based writer who’s covered the drinks industry for more than a decade, during which time she’s visited over 160 distilleries in 17 countries and 16 states, completed an apprenticeship at a distillery in Scotland, and spent a summer working in a pub on Islay. Her writing appears in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Whisky Advocate, Whisky Magazine, Architectural Digest and Lonely Planet.
BOTTOMS UP
These days, a generation that watched a grandparent or uncle casually cook up šljiva at home is fine-tuning the recipe and turning the age-old craft into a modern business.
TIPPLE
An expedition to find the best gin joints across London.
BOTTOMS UP
The Bloody Mary is a drink that serious bar-goers write off as a brunch staples. Not so in Canada where the Caesar, a Bloody Mary with clam juice, is the national drink.
IT’S STILL A BIG WORLD
The densely populated Dutch city is a tourist’s dream: bike-friendly, full of great food and art, mindful of its storied past, and mad for murals.
Drinks Update
We spoke to Karl Franz Williams, the owner of acclaimed bar 67 Orange Street, about how he has reinvented his business and is finding a way to survive the coronavirus pandemic.
Zero-Waste Drinking
Singapore boasts some of the most interesting and environmentally friendly bars in the world.