Beer Of The Week: It’s Modelo Negra season
As popular as Mexican beers are here in the States, I haven’t devoted many pixels to them. Modelo is the number two…
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Drinkery is The Takeout's celebration of beer, liquor, coffee, and other potent potables.
Why honey beers are misunderstood
Your lawn may still be covered in snow, your dog’s forgotten tennis balls buried in backyard permafrost. But the…
What’s the secret to exceptional sweet tea?
Previously, my closest association with sweet tea was that time my kids added a bunch of sugar to berry tea when I…
Beer Of The Week: Ballast Point Passing Haze offers lighter take on hazy IPAs
I’m encouraged to see that beer, collectively, has stopped debating the “legitimacy” of hazy IPAs. They’re here,…
Ask Kate About Beer: How much head should a beer have?
Welcome to Ask Kate About Beer, in which The Takeout’s resident beer expert answers everything you’ve ever wanted to…
The Bloody Caesar gets an Asian makeover
Umami Issues is The Takeout’s exploration of cooking food with the rich, savory, mysterious taste sensation known as…
Beer Of The Week: Jolly Pumpkin Bam Bière is everyday classy
How is that some people are able to make unremarkable outfits—a pair of blue jeans, a flannel jacket, a gray t-shirt, a…
Ask Kate About Beer: How often do breweries change a beer’s recipe?
Welcome to Ask Kate About Beer, in which The Takeout’s resident beer expert answers everything you’ve ever wanted to…
Guinness really is the best St. Patrick’s Day beer
You had plans to drink a beer this weekend, didn’t you? I’m no Miss Cleo, this was just a hunch. St. Patrick’s Day…
4 recommendations from a fancy Irish whiskey shopgirl
Previously, on recommendations from a fancy [insert spirit here] shopgirl, Allison Shoemaker suggested six whiskeys…
Everything you need to know about corked wine in 2 minutes
You attend a wine tasting. You nod your head while the winemaker says things like “notes of cherry bark” and “long,…
Beer of the Week: Cigar City Guayabera quietly became a big hit, for good reason
The first time I visited Tampa’s Cigar City Brewing was about 10 years ago. The brewery had only been open a few years,…
5 rum recommendations from a fancy rum shopgirl
Previously, on recommendations from a fancy [insert spirit here] shopgirl, Allison Shoemaker suggested six whiskeys…
Ask Kate About Beer: What's the difference between ales and lagers?
Welcome to Ask Kate About Beer, in which The Takeout’s resident beer expert answers everything you’ve ever wanted to…
I have tasted of the one true butterbeer, and it is hot
This summer, I did something that I still can’t really believe was a real thing I did for work, for which I was paid in…
Beer Of The Week: SweetWater Guide Beer begs for a spot in your cooler
SweetWater’s new Guide Beer lager is like catnip to this river-rafting, Montana-based beer writer. First, it’s a hoppy p…
Why the world is flipping for Japanese whisky
Welcome to Gateways To Drinkery, where The Takeout offers an entry-level course on our favorite libations, and some…
Beer flips are the beer-and-whole egg cocktail—wait, hear me out
Gee, Kate, when are you going to share a recipe for a cocktail that includes hot beer and a whole egg?
Ask Kate About Beer: How do brewery-band beer collaborations work?
Breweries collaborating with bands on beers is not a new concept. Musicians from the Grateful Dead to Run The Jewels…
Let’s explain Texas’ messy beer-to-go laws, and how they might finally change
Currently, a good chunk of Texas breweries can’t sell customers beer to-go—not in cans, not in growlers, not in…