Thousands of microdistilleries are helping to change the face of Brazil’s national spirit, creating aged and wood-blended expressions that are pulling in new fans. If life gives you limes, make Caipirinhas. The sweet yet zingy cocktail muddled with the green citrus fruit, white cachaça and sugar fuels Brazilians and, given that they consume 99% of […]
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20 Innovators Changing the Way We Eat: Mark Emil Hermansen
(Condé Nast Traveler) What do you get if you take two senior Noma alumni chasing “the goosebump moment” and put them in a formerly derelict Copenhagen shipyard? The answer is Empirical, which sits somewhere between drinks brand and scientific experiment into double fermentation and low-temperature vacuum distillation. Hermansen and his business partner Lars Williams describe it as a […]
Mujeres del gin: tres emprendedoras detrás del boom de la bebida de moda
(El Cronista) Tres historias de diferentes latitudes, tres mujeres con vidas muy distintas, y una misma pasión: el gin, esa bebida tan versátil que desde hace un tiempo se reivindica como tendencia mundial/Todas crearon en Argentina marcas que se lucen por su calidad y originalidad/Desde la Patagonia hasta Rosario. Tres historias de diferentes latitudes, tres […]
The 25 best rooftop bars in the world
(Time Out) Good drinks, great vibes and epic views: our global list of the world’s best rooftop bars covers Europe, Asia, the USA and beyond. Trade Skybar, Buenos Aires The view Buenos Aires vistas come two for the price of one at Trade, which houses watering holes on both the 19th and 22nd floors of the Argentinian capital’s […]
Smuggled Hops and Flashes of Triumph — A Buenos Aires Pub Crawl with Brewer Hernán Castellani
(Good Beer Hunting) It’s a balmy summer afternoon when I set off with Hernán Castellani on a cruise around the low-slung suburbs of Greater Buenos Aires. We’re in search of what was, until recently, elusive here: good beer, made with care. Castellani, who operates the cuckoo brewing project Sir Hopper, has offered to take me […]
Gin, eneldo y una buena idea: el experimento de cuarentena que se volvió negocio
(La Nación) Nacida en Inglaterra, la periodista y sommelier Sorrel Moseley-Williams bromea diciendo que le dieron gin “desde la mamadera”. Sin embargo, ya en serio, confirma que su primera experiencia con la bebida no fue precisamente memorable. “Tenía 19 años y la facultad a la que iba organizó un mega evento muy elegante. Ahí tomé un gin […]
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10 of the best warming winter drinks around the world
(The Guardian) A selection of Christmas drinks that go beyond mulled wine; our pick of the best winter tipples, from hot beer in Krakow to Chile’s pisco eggnog. Cola de mono, Santiago de Chile Cheers: ¡Salud! Merry Christmas: ¡Feliz navidad! Translating as “monkey’s tail” (or, more crudely, “arse”), cola de mono is Chile’s quintessential Christmas and new year […]
Moveable feast: Alex Atala
Colombia’s coffee revolution
(Selector) As we survey María del Carmen Toro’s fertile coffee, banana and avocado farm, the sun has started to lower and mist is slowly gathering in the valley. “The conflict was intense here,” she recalls. “Bombs went off all the time and ‘they’d’ come here at 1am, demanding we prepare them food.” The ‘they’ to […]