Beverages

How To Make Beer

Enlarge Image We all know the effects (and after-effects) of beer. But lifting a glass of cool liquid to your mouth on a scorching hot day, have you ever stopped to consider the processes a ...

Who Wants A 5000 Year Old Cocktail?

Enlarge Image The first cocktail ever was made in Mesopotamia 5,000 years ago, using a combination wine, beer, apple juice and honey no one is quite sure but it is said that it could have b ...

How to serve wine properly!

Enlarge Image Most of the times, we drink a bottle of wine without fully releasing its best aroma and taste. Wine is volatile. When reacting to its environment, it can reveal or hide its ...

It’s tea—it’s punch—it’s refreshing!

By Lana Christian Long before Ruth Bigelow added orange peel and spices to tea bags, our great-grandparents made sunny sippers with tea as their base. Our great-grandparents called it t ...

Mon Dieu! It's Whisky From Champagne

At the height of the worst wine crisis for years, a Frenchman has turned his back on tradition and is successfully distilling malt whisky amid the vines. As viticulteurs grapple with harsh prop ...

Beauty and the Bean

Enlarge Image Back in the mid-80s (yikes, was it really 20 years ago?), I was a young teacher working in New Orleans. To earn extra money, I worked part time across the street from my Magaz ...

Toxin In Your Drink

Enlarge Image By Elizabeth Gilley People are always reminded to refrain from consuming too much sodas and softdrinks because they contain lots of sugar and can cause tooth decay. But nev ...

Wine lovers, how tasty is your wine?(What you need to know)

Enlarge Image For all those wine lovers out there who would like to know everything about wine, (but are afraid to ask) here is a quick reference, a must for any connoisseur. Several minor ...

The origin of cocktails......Fact or Fiction

Enlarge Image Cocktails throughout history No one actually knows who invented the cocktail as there is no historical evidence or timeline that would enable us to pinpoint when cocktails ...

Beer, Its older than you think!!!

Enlarge Image When you think of how old beer is, you probably think maybe a few 100 years or so, but beer is actually over 6000 years old, historians speculate that prehistoric nomads may h ...

It takes this long time to perfect a good whiskey

The origin of Irish whiskey is a little cloudy, no one is actually sure when it was 1st created, it is surmised that brewing started sometime in the 12th century. Irish whiskey is barley, malt ...

Scotch Whisky - The Inside Scoop

Scotch Whisky The term 'whisky' derives originally from the Gaelic 'uisge beatha,' or 'usquebaugh,' meaning "water of life." Gaelic is the branch of Celtic spoken in the Scottish Highla ...

My Buttery Espresso - Coffee Terminology Explained

Drop these terms at your next dinner party or social outing! They are guaranteed to impress. Flavor is the most important term, encompassing aroma, acidity and body. It is used to descr ...

Some Facts About Whiskey or Whisky

Enlarge Image When discussing whisky the first thing that needs to be know is that there are two legitimate spellings. The Scotts and Canadians spell whisky without the "e", while the Iri ...

Things Grow Better With Coke

Indian farmers have come up with what they think is the real thing to keep crops free of bugs. Instead of paying hefty fees to international chemical companies for patented pesticides, they are ...

Planning wine for your party

Enlarge Image Planning a Party with Wine. Entertaining can be a stressful event, but one way to ensure a good for everyone including yourself is to plan ahead. By taking care of as many ...

Champagne Battle Set to Bubble Over

Winemakers in a tiny Swiss village are fighting for their livelihood against the mighty producers of a better-known bubbly French wine who believe that they alone should be allowed to use the nobl ...

Red Wine Beats Alcopops

Dutch scientists have confirmed that red wine is healthier than an alcopop. A binge drinking experiment showed those who hit the bottle might do better to choose Cotes du Rhone over cocktails. ...

Costa Gives Wine a Bad Name

A group of wine-growers from north-eastern Spain has asked permission to drop the name Costa Brava from their place of origin. Wines from the region where millions of British package tourists t ...

Soft drinks! Could they harm you?

A soft drink is something that one reaches out for during a tiring journey or an exhaustive shopping ordeal. Children’s parties these days cannot begin without them. Soft drinks have taken a defi ...