By Kurt Maitland Today, we talk to friend and fellow author, Amanda Schuster about her latest book–Drink Like a Local: New York. As cities have opened up and we continue to venture out, we are finding that the drinking landscape has changed. Some old favorites are now gone, and new places have sprouted up. Here in NYC, there couldn’t be ...

The legendary Stitzel-Weller Distillery begins a new chapter in its 86-year history with the opening of the Garden & Gun Club.  The destination cocktail bar, inspired by Garden & Gun Magazine’s hospitality franchise, is located on the second floor of the Stitzel-Weller Distillery offering a unique food and drink experience along the Kentucky Bourbon Trail®.  Both intimate and inviting, the ...

By Kurt Maitland There are a world’s worth of bars – from speakeasies and dives to tourist traps and posh hotel bars, but for me perhaps the most important is the neighborhood bar. A “Cheers” type situation—where the bar owner knows the name of their regulars, the bartenders know what you drink and what’s new on the menu that you ...

By Randall H. Borkus I was on the road early this summer heading to Algona, Iowa for a high school graduation of my niece, Tiffany.  It was a wonderful ceremony, and later in the night the (elder, genuine) adults ventured into downtown Algona, where to my surprise they have a respectable whiskey bar known as The Perky Parrot After Dark. ...

By Richard Thomas Lexington’s old Pepper Distillery is a fixture of some of my earliest childhood memories. When I was in kindergarten, the family farm was just down the road from this historic, long forgotten bourbon factory that was shuttered in 1958. My Dad would frequently drive up Old Frankfort Pike and onto Manchester Street, going past the big, abandoned ...