Editor Simon Lyle takes a trip through time to the crossroads between science and heretics, where distilling is getting a reboot

Hot Rum Cow opens up a compendium of historic drinking games

Up your toasting game with our history of the tradition

Sixteen national beers go head-to-head in Hot Rum Cow’s inaugural Beer World Cup

A trip into the sweat-sodden, steam-filled, blue-collar world of the Boilermaker

The recent renaissance of the cocktail has teased Scotch out of its shell. Hot Rum Cow oversees the transformation of four classic American cocktails into Scotchtails

Antoine Amedie Peychaud invented his ruby red bitters as a tonic, but the liquid kick the concoction gave his clientele saw it become something much more fun

Shochu was originally used as a medicinal disinfectant. Yet with sales now surpassing sake, it’s Japan’s new national drink

From the frozen north to the Equator and back again as we take to the Golden Road in search of Scandinavian aquavit

If the French have Champagne, the Mexicans have tequila, and the Russians vodka, then cachaça is the spirit that translates the Brazilian soul through a bottle

Agwa De Bolivia is the only coca leaf liqueur in the world, but there is nothing illicit about this luminous green, herbal concoction

To be a master blender of one of the world’s best-known rum brands itself requires a very special blend of science and art … and marketing