We’re uncorking our latest column, Bottoms Up — a weekly guide to everything brewed, bottled, blended, barrel-aged and generally booze-soaked. Up first, the strange-but-true story of chartreuse, an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The monks who make the French liqueur announced they won't be ramping up production to meet demand. Brent Hofacker / Getty Images ...

In the 11th century, Bruno of Cologne, a renowned cleric and intellectual from a noble German family, rejected the chance to become a bishop. Forswearing the career bump of higher placement in the ...

Behind the gray stone walls of the 900-year-old Grande Chartreuse monastery, high in the French Alps, two monks dry, crush, and sort 130 herbs and spices into burlap bags. The "plants room" where they ...

Green Chartreuse is one of my favorite liqueurs. Not only does it have a long and storied history within the cloistered walls of the near-silent Carthusian monks, with links to Alchemy and a ...

What many people don’t know about Chartreuse is that the Carthusian monks have made it since 1737. (Yes, you read that right.) Named after the monks’ Grande Chartreuse monastery, located in the ...

What should I drink if I want to live longer? Well, we’d recommend water. But I’m assuming you want a longer answer here, so what about Chartreuse — a legendary liqueur that’s been made by Carthusian ...

YOU PEER THROUGH the glass at the emerald liquid shimmering within, turning the very sun green with envy as it filters through the bottle to your gleaming eye. This grass-colored liqueur, with its ...

The monks who make the French liqueur announced they won't be ramping up production to meet demand. Katie Brown is an editor for Food & Wine specializing in kitchen product reviews. An avid home cook ...

Legendary writer Hunter S. Thompson's holy trinity for inspiration was marijuana, cocaine, and Chartreuse. In his song "'Til the Money Runs Out," Tom Waits sings about buying "a pint of green ...