Food and Beverage

Scott Sternberg of Band of Outsiders has teamed up with the Starbucks again for fancy coffee cups. Now you can avoid the project of inadvertently stacking paper coffee cups into your local landfill with some real cappuccino-worthy panache. The limited-edition ceramic cups come in two styles, black “drip” (shown above) or rainbow drip. The mugs are described […]


Finally, a dank drank! Mirth Provisions, a “budding” beverage company out of Washington state knows what’s up with your morning cup. “Legal” is an aptly named cold-brew coffee that has more to offer than just caffeine, as it also contains locally grown cannabis extract. The potency is deliberately on the milder side described as providing “a powerful […]


Aged in the smaller casks that once held some of Spain’s finest sherries means whisky that is dark, brute, dark, bold, dark, dark and dark. Also, just to clarify, it’s very dark. The Darkness! is a series from Scotland’s finest, be it the 21-year-old Ardberg finished in the casks of Oloroso sherry or the Macallan […]


16 May
Because dead men tell no ales, but they love whiskey

Since opening their doors as a brew pub in 1988, Rogue has grown with the craft-beer revolution out of Oregon. It has since become one of the top ales to put hair on a man’s face, the Platinum medal-winning Dead Guy Ale. Dedicated to crafting fine booze, it makes sense that spirits be added to the pallet. […]


14 May
Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese & pickles

It seems the folks at Facetasm have confused accessorizing with a winning round at the old-school video game “Burgertime” (Google it, Millennials). The Japanese fashion house now teeters the line of the whimsical and the fashion-forward, or perhaps it’s just something something that should be available with a side of fries as dangling earrings. If you were previously […]


No one knows the moment when it happened. Sriracha used to be reserved for sprucing up yesterday’s pad thai, and then things changed. Now Sriracha, as either a brand or a flavoring, is so infused to everything pop culture that people will squirt it on tacos de carnitas with a straight face, as if there […]


We used to think of moonshine as something that only inbred cousins in the hills could ever perfect, once they got too toothless and sauced to really amount to much on the banjo. Or perhaps moonshine referred to the liquid gold in barrels that kept gangsters in shootouts during Prohibition. But things are different now […]


What better way to rub elbows with the art world than having Basquiat on your booze? 1800 Tequila Essential Artists series has certainly got that figured out, the newest edition to their bottled booze-eums being an entire 6-bottle series dedicated to Jean-Michel Basquiat. The Basquiat x 1800 union makes sense when considering that dozens of contemporary artists […]