Serve Wine, Make Wine

Sommeliers leap from restaurant floor to vineyard.

Something More Than Crappy Pilsner

While there is no brand of American pilsner distributed nationally, several excellent examples have popped up on the micro and regional levels.

Burden of Proof

When compared with, say, a typical 86-proof cognac, your typical wine would seem about as threatening as a bottle of Evian —right? But the alcohol level in wine varies.

Make Your Own Soda Pop

How to brew homemade ginger beer and root beer.

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.

A friend is on a sort of odd diet that encourages the ingestion of fermented (but not pickled) vegetables. I’d like to buy some for him, but I’m not sure what falls into that category. Is kimchee fermented? Any other...

Anyone found a source for stoneware crocks other than the Harsch crocks? I have some 2.5 liter stoneware crocks from Emile Henry (actually a large utensil crock) — they’re food safe and all that, but a little small.

winemaking kits. TIA! Link: http://www.fermentations.ca/

I recently acquired my mother’s treasured copy of “Traditional Ukrainian Cookery” by Savella Stechishin. In it is a recipe that neither she nor anyone else in the family has ever tried: fermented apples. The...

On impulse the other night I purchased a jar of fermented tofu. What do I do with it???? I opened it, tasted, while the texture is fine it is very salty and cleary not to be eaten alone!!! Help!!

Añejo Tequila Is a Hoax

Why drink an agave liquor if you can’t taste the agave?

Why Can Lactose-Intolerant People Eat Some Cheeses and Not Others?

It has to do with how long the cheese is aged.

Bacon in a Glass

CHOW’s guide to smoked beers: rich, toasty-tasting ales that are made with malt smoked prior to brewing.

Try Mezcal Again

It used to be that mezcal was thought of as a poor man’s tequila. No more. Great mezcal is now being imported into the United States.

Do Bordeaux Wine Futures Have a Future?

Avoid the unreliable en primeur system.