“The first boozy concoction to come from apples was cider. Americans refer to unfiltered apple juice as apple cider and usually drink… — Amy Stewart Apple cider Copy Share Image
“Angels’ Share: In storage, a small amount of alcohol escapes the barrel through evaporation. Distillers call this lost alcohol the angels’ share.… — Amy Stewart Copy Share Image
“Early spice traders tried to plant allspice seeds around the world but found them impossible to germinate. Eventually it was discovered that… — Amy Stewart Around the world Copy Share Image
“Absinthe is legal today in Europe, the United States, and many places around the world. Some governments regulate the amount of thujone… — Amy Stewart Around the world Copy Share Image
“As the tree matures, the older vessels become plugged with crystalline structures called tyloses, and as a result, the center of the… — Amy Stewart Break free Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it makes sense that a creature that doesn't get ill and has few enemies among its neighbors would also live agelessly… — Amy Stewart Copy Share Image
“Wapsie Valley, known for producing red kernels. (The legend behind Wapsie Valley is that at corn shuckings, any man who found a… — Amy Stewart Copy Share Image
“Among the many benefits of “limestone water” was the fact that it came out of the ground at about 50 degrees Fahrenheit,… — Amy Stewart Bitter taste Copy Share Image
“I would’ve never guessed that a life in law enforcement was mostly spent waiting, that catching criminals requires not just clever thinking… — Amy Stewart Crime Copy Share Image
“When Coca-Cola made its ill-fated switch to New Coke, the Wall Street Journal reported that the economy of Madagascar nearly collapsed because… — Amy Stewart Wall street Copy Share Image
“solera system for aging. The barrels are stacked four high, with finished sherry coming only from the bottom barrel. It is refilled… — Amy Stewart Copy Share Image
“Gin is really nothing more than a flavored vodka whose predominant flavor is juniper, so gin drinkers who say they won’t drink… — Amy Stewart Nature Copy Share Image
“AROMA (OLD WORLD) HOPS Cascade Cluster East Kent Goldings Fuggle Hallertauer Hersbrucker Tettnang Willamette” — Amy Stewart Old world Copy Share Image
“An invasive European moth was to blame for a series of mysterious rashes among schoolchildren in northern Pennsylvania. In the spring of… — Amy Stewart Copy Share Image
“new laws regulating the now-legal liquor industry, they helped ensure that bourbon (and other whiskey) would, as of July 1, 1936, have… — Amy Stewart Copy Share Image
“It’s easy to see how disgruntled sailors might start to wonder if their rum had been diluted a little too much. They… — Amy Stewart Copy Share Image
“loopholes in some United States liquor laws allow it to be served in restaurants with only a beer and wine license. This… — Amy Stewart Beer and wine Copy Share Image
“A woman should have the right to do any sort of work she wants to, provided she can do it.” — Amy Stewart Copy Share Image
“Every year, Australian ornithologists field calls about the strange behavior of the musk lorikeet population in the southeastern part of the country.… — Amy Stewart Habits Copy Share Image
“Any environment, any single life is in a continuous state of change. This is just more obvious when you pay attention to… — Amy Stewart Change Copy Share Image
“Eternity can be found in the minuscule, in the place where earthworms, along with billions of unseen soil-dwelling microorganisms, engage in a… — Amy Stewart Garden Copy Share Image
“give her one silent gift from a mother she didn’t know she had—it would be this: the realization that we have to… — Amy Stewart Mother Copy Share Image
“The rat population thrived in such a horrible mess. Ironically, cats were believed to be the consorts of witches in those days,… — Amy Stewart Middle ages Copy Share Image
“1737 recipe for fig liqueur involved steeping figs in brandy along with nutmeg, cinnamon, mace, saffron, and licorice, “’till the whole virtue… — Amy Stewart Copy Share Image
