Drinks

Drinks

I Just Tasted My First Frappuccino, and I Get It Now

The Starbucks Frappuccino takes me back to a childhood I never had.

Danny Palumbo

Drinks

3 Ways to Prevent Coffee From Ruining Your Teeth

Keep those chompers pearly white without sacrificing your daily caffeine.

Angela L. Pagán

Drinks

The New Tito’s Vodka Promotion Is... Complicated

The Tito’s Walk-Pack is, depending on where you live, a legally questionable bit of merch for a good cause.

Josh Wussow

Drinks

This Filipino Beer Will Knock You on Your Ass

Red Horse beer is the perfect accompaniment to glorious Filipino food.

Danny Palumbo

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The Takeout’s 2023 Sweets & Snacks Expo Recap

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A.V. Cocktail Club

Make the Smokiest Margarita of Your Life

The Mad Mezcal is a savory twist on the classic summer cocktail.

Try This Spicy Twist on the Gold Rush Cocktail

Learn to make the Pollen Drone, a bourbon cocktail with hot honey and bee pollen.

This Gin Cocktail Is Best Sipped Sloe

Learn how to make the Most Pleasant, a drink that proves homemade simple syrups are a game-changer.

The Best Bourbon Drink When You Don’t Want Another Old Fashioned

How to make the Posh Spice cocktail, a specialty of Paulie Gee's Logan Square.

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Dryuary

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Dryuary

Dry January has arrived—here’s how to get through it

Strategies to help you live alcohol free, both at home and when you’re out with friends.

Micheline Maynard

Dryuary

About a year ago, bloated and stuffed and overserved after weeks of bacchanalian holiday celebrating, I pondered Dryuary, in which drinkers give up the stuff for the month of January. None of my pants fit, my Advil bottle was empty, and my whole…

Gwen Ihnat

Dryuary

Dryuary epilogue: Falling off the wagon with a giant thud

Welcome to the epilogue to Dryuary, a five-part series where The Takeout’s Gwen Ihnat navigated the month minus alcohol.

Gwen Ihnat

Dryuary

Dryuary week 5: Cheers to a month without alcohol

Welcome to Dryuary, a five-part series where The Takeout’s Gwen Ihnat navigates the month minus alcohol.

Gwen Ihnat

Fizz Biz

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Fizz Biz

This Wine Spritzer Is Better Than Your Favorite Seltzer

A new line of canned cocktails from Spritz Society makes the case for more wine spritzers.

Brianna Wellen

Fizz Biz

The Best Tasting Canned Cocktails All Share One Ingredient

All three SunDaze cocktail flavors are full of delicious orange juice.

Dennis Lee

Fizz Biz

Why HARD MTN DEW Is a MTN DON’T

MTN DEW's sickly-sweet new boozy drinks are a Baja Bust.

Lillian Stone

Fizz Biz

Every NÜTRL Vodka Seltzer Flavor, Ranked

There are only a few flavors that are worth seeking out of the pack.

Dennis Lee

Like A Virgin

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Like A Virgin

This New NA Beer Is Perfect for Softball Season

Athletic Lite is a booze-free option for the casual beer drinker.

Brianna Wellen

Like A Virgin

The perfect last-minute holiday gift for your sober friends

Upscale craft cocktails from Curious Elixirs are a booze-free bar in a box.

Allison Robicelli

Like A Virgin

Sparkling sangria is the ideal holiday wine replacement

No matter how stressful the holidays get, this hemp-infused wine will calm you down.

Allison Robicelli

Like A Virgin

It’s easy to get carried away with this casual sober sipper

Hop Wtr is the non-alcoholic “toss a cold one back after a hard day” drink you've been waiting for.

Allison Robicelli

Pick Six

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Pick Six

Can craft brewers change more than just the beer industry? (Plus 6 to drink this month)

A $213 billion crowdfunding campaign launched in October. No, James Cameron isn’t using a “Zach Braff” financing model for his Avatar sequels. This fundraising is an attempt to buy Anheuser-Busch InBev to keep it from buying any more craft…

Andrew Gill

Pick Six

What it means to be a craft beer, plus 6 to try in August

In June, the Brewers Association announced its “Independent Craft” seal—a graphic meant to distinguish the 5,562 breweries that fit its definition of craft beer from those owned by the big bad corporations. In its announcement, the association cited …

Andrew Gill

Pick Six

6 beers from true craft breweries that you should drink this month

Pick Six is The A.V. Club’s monthly recommendations for the beers we’re currently digging.

Andrew Gill

Pick Six

6 craft beers for June that Anheuser-Busch hasn’t bought yet

While the rest of the world obsessed over Comey, Russia, and massive document dumps in May, the craft beer world followed its own completely separate soap opera. First, on May 3, Anheuser-Busch InBev bought Asheville, North Carolina’s Wicked Weed…

Andrew Gill

I Just Tasted My First Frappuccino, and I Get It Now

3 Ways to Prevent Coffee From Ruining Your Teeth

The New Tito’s Vodka Promotion Is... Complicated

This Filipino Beer Will Knock You on Your Ass

Make the Smokiest Margarita of Your Life

Try This Spicy Twist on the Gold Rush Cocktail

This Gin Cocktail Is Best Sipped Sloe

The Best Bourbon Drink When You Don’t Want Another Old Fashioned

Dry January has arrived—here’s how to get through it

Hear me out: Consider Dryuary

Dryuary epilogue: Falling off the wagon with a giant thud

Dryuary week 5: Cheers to a month without alcohol

This Wine Spritzer Is Better Than Your Favorite Seltzer

The Best Tasting Canned Cocktails All Share One Ingredient

Why HARD MTN DEW Is a MTN DON’T

Every NÜTRL Vodka Seltzer Flavor, Ranked

This New NA Beer Is Perfect for Softball Season

The perfect last-minute holiday gift for your sober friends

Sparkling sangria is the ideal holiday wine replacement

It’s easy to get carried away with this casual sober sipper

Can craft brewers change more than just the beer industry? (Plus 6 to drink this month)

What it means to be a craft beer, plus 6 to try in August

6 beers from true craft breweries that you should drink this month

6 craft beers for June that Anheuser-Busch hasn’t bought yet