Añejo Tequila Is a Hoax

Why drink an agave liquor if you can’t taste the agave? (By Jordan Mackay)

Mixto Is for Losers

With flavors that vary widely from bright and citrusy to aged and smoky, tequila is fun to taste-test, to discover which you like best. But there are a few things you should know before you get started. (By Amy Keyishian)

Youth Culture

Unaged tequila is considered by many aficionados to be the best way to enjoy the spirit because the longer tequila sits in a barrel, the more it tastes like oak or charcoal and the less it tastes like the agave plant it was made... (By Amy Keyishian)

Make Your Own Soda Pop

How to brew homemade ginger beer and root beer.

True Agave Flavor

El Tesoro and 7 Leguas fight the good fight against bland tequila. (By Jordan Mackay)

10 Organic Liquors

Make ecococktails at home. (By Roxanne Webber)

10 Perfect Tequila Cocktails

Margaritas? Of course. But try something new. (By Michele Foley)

Mole in the Mountains

A gastronomic adventure in Xalapa, Mexico. (By Mick Vann)

Woodiness clashes with flavor of agave. (By Sarah Perry)

This stuff stands alone. (By James Norton)

Imbibe explores the comparative merits of aged rums. (By James Norton)

tail service goes high-tech. (By Lessley Anderson)

Dona Maria, open since spring, brings something different–and welcome–to Suffern. (By C. Thi Nguyen)

Weeniecello, meet Porkarita. Yesterday’s convenience-store joke becomes today’s hot tail. (By Stephanie Rosenbaum)

I could relate to most of Maine, but once I reached Machias, way up in the Down East—where stews are soups, stew/soups consist of magical thin milk, and strawberry pie is deliciousness from another galaxy—I started... (By Jim Leff)