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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The worldwide shortage of Chartreuse – an herbal French liqueur used in cocktails like The Last Word – is affecting Northeast Ohio cocktail enthusiasts. The shortage follows an ...

Milwaukee's Agency Cocktail Lounge will host an exclusive tasting dinner featuring Chartreuse, a liqueur made by French monks since 1605.

With bar programs becoming more and more specialized, the past month’s flurry of openings have brought two restaurant bars with a very rare, unusual offering: vintage Chartreuse. Coincidentally, The ...

Demand from the United States for the plant-based liqueur Chartreuse has never been greater. But the French monastic community that makes it has refused to increase production, preferring to save time ...

In my early days of working in a bar, there were certain bottles that I simply never touched. They sat there unloved, unused and unknown, tucked away deep in the back bar of endless bottles, wholly ...

Chartreuse is a French liqueur that has a distinctive green color and a complex flavor profile. It is made by monks of the Carthusian Order in the Chartreuse Mountains of France, using a closely ...

You have to give the people involved with making and selling Chartreuse their props. The consumers of that peculiar, vegetal French liqueur have been wigging out at the news that the monks who make ...

While chartreuse is traditionally referred to in the context of the color – it’s a yellowish green that was prevalent between the late 1950s and early ’70s in American interior design ­– it’s also a ...

Chartreuse is another monk’s digestif – with 130 secret herbs and a rakish reputation for its strength I was introduced to the joys of Green Chartreuse by a louche uncle. About 10 years ago, he took ...