What Does a Beer Historian Do?

The American History museum’s latest job opening made headlines. But what does the job actually entail?

Aye-aye

New Research

Study Shows Primates Prefer a Little Booze With Their Nectar

Two prosimian primates, the aye-aye and slow loris, show a preference for sugar-water with a higher alcohol content

Rendering of the BACtrack Skyn

How Drunk Are You? Ask Your Bracelet

The BACtrack Skyn, a wearable similar in style to a Fitbit, tracks your blood alcohol level in real time

Can you tell the difference between bourbon and rye?

Can You Really Tell the Difference Between Bourbon and Rye?

Drexel University puts professional tasters to the test

Cool Finds

An Israeli Brewery Recreated a 2,000-Year-Old Beer

Beer brewed as in Biblical times

Millenials = oenophiles, according to a new study.

New Research

Millennials Drink More Wine Than Anyone Else

The much-maligned generation has a penchant for vino

A 1950s Mountain Dew ad as photographed in Jakes Corner, Arizona

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Mountain Dew Once Had Ties to Moonshine

The original soda named Mountain Dew was supposed to be a whiskey accompaniment

Pub signs illustrat the creative names of local watering holes, like the Dog & Sausage in St. Helier, Jersey.

Cool Finds

A Brief History of British Pub Signs

The colorful signs boast more than good looks—they’re like miniature history books

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Whisky Grains and Coffee Grounds Could Help Clean up Nuclear Waste

Distilleries could soon be helping save the environment as they bottle up their next batch of brown

Cool Finds

There’s Now Whiskey On the ISS

(But astronauts can’t drink it)

Cool Finds

Root Beer Is For Adults Again

This is not your soda fountain’s root beer

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There’s More Bourbon in Kentucky Right now Than any Other Time in the Last 40 Years

Whiskey lovers, take note: the state currently boasts 5.7 million barrels of aging bourbon

Benjamin Rush, prominent colonial physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence, wrote a treatise on alcohol in 1784 that still influences how medicine views substance abuse today.

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Meet the Doctor Who Convinced America to Sober Up

Meet Benjamin Rush, father of the temperance movement, signer of the Declaration of Independence

New Research

West African Chimps Regularly Drink Alcoholic Palm Sap

Observations over 17 years show this isn’t just an experiment for the apes

Bermuda

There’s Only One Way to Make a Dark ‘n’ Stormy Without Breaking the Law

The cocktail has a surprising, and litigious history

A display of Jim Beam bourbons at a Kentucky distillery.

What Makes Bourbon Uniquely American?

A new book examines everything that makes the spirit special to the United States

Brewers at work making beer

Cool Finds

Brewmasters Now Using DNA Techniques to Spot Bad Batches

Instead of waiting for bacteria to grow, a quick genetic test can identify problem brews

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Busted: A Years-Long Bourbon Conspiracy

Rogue distillery employee suspected to be at the center of a huge bourbon theft ring

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