5 American-Made Smokey Whiskeys to Enjoy with Barbecue
Beer is a great accompaniment to any grilling sesh, but sometimes you need something stronger — like these great smokey whiskeys from the U.S.
This Simple Tequila Lime Shrimp Recipe Is Perfect for Any Season
If you're planning on celebrating the end of summer and the start of fall, you might want to try these tequila lime shrimp on your table. Here's how to do it.
The Best Rum Drinks for Every Season
From Salty Buttered Maple Cider to Cruzan's Black Diamond Swizzle, we put together a list of the best rum drinks organized by seasonal appropriateness.
The Best Road Trip Snacks to Bring Along for the Ride
When prepping your road trip snack pack, you need a balance of things. These are the best snacks to take along for the ride.
The 4 Best Personal Outdoor Pizza Ovens to Use for Your Next Pizza Party
Owning a pizza oven is like owning a badass toy. If this sounds like you, read on for our 2021 roundup of the best personal outdoor pizza ovens.
10 Best True Crime Books to Quietly Obsess Over
Countless books detailing major misdeed have been written over the centuries, but these are the best true crime books -- they're absolutely killer. From serial murderers to cults to memoirs from those that worked the crimes, there’s a little bit of something for everyone.
The 10 Best Hot Sauces to Spice Up Your Life
Just about any meal can be improved with a little heat. Here, you'll find the best hot sauces you can buy right now.
Best Scotch Under $50: 7 Bottles of Affordable Whisky
A good bottle of Scotch whisky can cost you $300 or it can run you under $50. What we’ve learned is that price does not always correspond to quality.
The 5 Best Man Crates to Gift Yourself
If you're ever looking to spoil yourself, consider Man Crates — the company that puts all of your favorite things in life together in one convenient place.
Why You Should Add Cincinnati to Your Food and Drink Destination List
We’ll admit — until we actually spent time in Cincinnati, we weren’t sold. But upon visiting the Queen City, we were greeted with a vibrant collection of good food, art, and boozing establishments. Here are the best restaurants, bars, and breweries we found.
The 9 Best Kitchen Gadget Gifts for the Culinary Dad
These gifts will ensure that Dad is not only cooking an amazing meal, but that he’s looking amazing doing it.
The Best White Wines for Day Drinking
Have an afternoon to kill, but don't want to get totally trashed? Why not try a bottle or two of these—the best white wines for day drinking?
7 Best Books About Hawaii to Read Before You Visit
The Aloha State is rich in history, legends, and lore. Check out our picks for essential reading about Hawaii. Just be ready to buy a plane ticket when you're done reading ... we definitely want to.
The 10 Best Ginger Beer For Moscow Mules
Next time you’re craving a cocktail that is equally spicy and refreshing, pop open one of our picks for the best ginger beer for Moscow mules.
Be Four-Warned: You Need to Try These Four-Grain Bourbons
You may not have heard of four-grain bourbon before, but you should be on the lookout. These unique spirits feature corn, wheat, malted barley, and rye. We’ve highlighted the distilleries creating the best four-grain bourbons (and in one case, a four-grain whiskey) to help you expand your palate.
The Best Food Quotes of All Time (Warning: May Cause Hunger)
Food — great, mind-blowing food or even mildly passable food in the right circumstances — can be a transcendental experience and it deserves to be talked about. We've found the best food quotes from some of the greatest culinary - and literary -minds in history. You're going to eat these words up.
The Best Bourbon-Based Sauces (and More) on the Market
We’ve collected the best bourbon-based sauces (and then some) that you can buy online. From barbecue sauce aged in bourbon barrels to sweet syrups infused with bourbon, you can’t go wrong with anything on this list.
Visit the Best Bourbon Bars in the Country
Here are some of our favorite bourbon bars across the United States. We hope you're thirsty, because you're going to want to visit each and every one.
The Best Beer Quotes of All Time
Famous people throughout history talk about beer, and for good reason. It’s f’ing delicious. Remember these famous beer quotes the next time you raise a glass.
Craft and Innovation by the Glassful: The Best Bars in Tokyo
Tokyo is a wonderland when it comes to drinking. Here are our picks for some of the best bars in Tokyo with a cocktail focus.
How to Drink Like a Local in Detroit According to Someone From Detroit
Detroit native Nick Britsky — creator of the website, Nick Drinks, and host of the local television show, 'Nick Drinks at Night' — fills us in on the best bars and watering holes in Motor City.
The Best American Vodka
The Manual Spirit Awards recognize the best craft liquor made in the United States. We awarded the best American spirits across eight categories, including Vodka. This is the best vodka in the U.S.
The Best American Single Malt Whiskey of 2018
The Manual Spirit Awards 2018 recognize the best damn booze in America. We've awarded the top American liquors across nine categories, including American single malt whiskey. Here is the best American single malt whiskey made in the U.S.
The Best American Rye Whiskey
The Manual Spirit Awards recognize the best craft liquor made in the United States. We awarded the best American spirits across eight categories, including Rye. This is the best rye whiskey in the U.S.
The Best American Single Malt Whiskey
The Manual Spirit Awards recognize the best craft liquor made in the United States. We awarded the best American spirits across eight categories, including Single Malt Whiskey. This is the best single malt whiskey in the U.S.
The Best American Gin
The Manual Spirit Awards recognize the best craft liquor made in the United States. We awarded the best American spirits across eight categories, including Gin. This is the best gin in the U.S.
Nostalgic Noshing: The Best ’90s Snacks You Can Still Buy
The 1990s were a magical time. We searched for the best '90s snacks and found that some of our favorites are still available online. Time to party like it's 1999. Again.
Beards, Booze, and Bacon: The Wine Education Episode
For this week's episode of Beards, Booze, and Bacon: The Manual Podcast, the roundtable sits down with noted wine writer Katherine Cole to pick her brain on everyone's favorite topic: wine knowledge (or lack thereof).
Shake Up Your Drinking Routine with these Easy Sake Cocktails
Expert mixologist and sake sommelier Haru Zenda shows us how to shake up some delicious and easy-to-make sake cocktails.
Cocktail History: Bogart’s Bitters is a Recreation of a 150-Year-Old Recipe
Bogart's Bitters by The Bitter Truth is based on the first bitters ever used in a cocktail book.
This Mug Will Show You How to Make Fancy Coffee Drinks at Home
Now, you won't have to pay four bucks for a flat white every time you want a coffee drink.
We Tried to Drown the Sonic Pickle Juice Slush with Booze
What’s the dill with Sonic’s pickle juice slush? We tried the new Sonic menu item ... and then we tried to drown the flavor with booze in an unnatural pickleback experiment
This Will Be Your Dad’s New Favorite Pork Chop Recipe
It’s almost Father’s Day, and that means it’s time to show dad he didn’t raise a bum loser. How do you do that? If you really want to impress him, you should grill him up some pork chops and serve’ em with a side of baked beans and cornbread.
Why a Brazilian Sparkling Wine Should Be Your Next Bottle of Bubbly
Brazil has been quietly making sparkling wine for over a century. Not just sparkling wine, though — damn fine sparkling wine. Here's a brief rundown of the winemakingr tradition in this South American country and all the reasons you should be drinking its wine.
Anthony Bourdain Taught Me More Than Just How to Travel and Eat
Anthony Bourdain is a legend. He is also the reason I was standing in a market across the world from where I lived, eating some of the best food of my life when I learned of his death.
What to Cook for a Date When You Live in a Tiny Apartment
It doesn’t matter if you live in a tiny home or a 400-square-foot apartment, it’s good to know how to cook a big meal in a little space. With these four recipes courtesy of 'Tiny House Cooking,' you can whip up the perfect meal for date night, from appetizer to desert.
This Greek Short Rib Youvetsi Recipe is to Die For
Kyma in New York City serves up a wide variety of Greek specialties, ranging from stuffed calamari that you’d sell your soul for to numerous classic Greek dishes, such as this savory, melt in your mouth short rib youvetsi.
You’re Going to Want to Pick Up ‘The Scratch & Sniff Bacon Cookbook’
A cookbook that you can smell? The new 'Scratch & Sniff Bacon Cookbook' is exactly that. Check out why you need this for the bacon lover in your life.
The Right Way to Make a Spice Blend with Lior Lev Sercarz
Spices can make or break a meal. Yes, a properly cooked piece of chicken or steak is delicious on its own, but the flavors introduced by a spice blend can elevate a meal to new heights. Want to learn to make your own at home? We talk to the spice master Lior Lev Sercarz to find out how.
Copper and Kings Blanche Absinthe Review
Check out this cousin of the Green Fairy, a white absinthe made by Louisville's Copper and Kings. If you love licorice, you'll want to check this out.
Expert Tips on How to Forage for Mushrooms and Not Die
When foraging, Shouse says, there are a couple of tips and tricks you can employ to ensure a successful (and health-preserving) excursion. These instructions come courtesy of chef Seadon Shouse of Halifax in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Southern Grace Conviction Bourbon Review
Southern Grace Spirits, the only whiskey prison in the U.S., has released its first aged product: Conviction Bourbon. Our review can tell you exactly what to expect.
The Ultimate Guide to Day Drinking
Day drinking is the true sport of kings. That being said, day drinking ain't easy. Learn how to take the crown and keep it with these tips and tricks. All day long.
Ice Ice Baby: The “World’s Oldest Startup” Redefines Cool
These revolutionary ice cubes are all chill, no dil(ution).
Keeping the Cocktail Revolution Going, One Drink at a Time: An Interview With Max Messier of Cocktail & Sons
The Manual interviews Max Messier, who created a line of syrups meant to keep the cocktail revolution going.
The History and Growth of Japanese Whisky
It may not have as long and famous a history as Scotch, but the story of Japanese whisky is both interesting and delicious. Read on to find out more.
Be a Matcha Matcha Man and Whip Up These 4 Matcha Cocktails
Matcha isn't just great as a hot tea beverage. It's also damn good in cocktails. Try your hand at one of theses four matcha cocktail recipes.
Krispy Kreme Creates Outrageous Reese’s Sugar Coma
For a limited time, you will be able to get your hands on a Krispy Kreme Reese’s Outrageous Doughnut, which was modeled after the Reese’s Outrageous candy bar. It's sure to be a sugar coma-inducing good time.
You’ve Never Had Grilled Sweet Potato Like This Before
Who wouldn’t want grilled sweet potatoes with Sriracha caramel?
Less Alcohol, More Flavor: Ketel One Botanical is a New Breed of Diet Vodka
There is a hyperfocus these days on living a clean, healthy lifestyle. Ketel One set out to tackle that market by producing a new, lower alcohol by volume (ABV) and lower calorie line of flavored vodkas called Ketel One Botanical.