Brian Freedman is a wine, spirits, travel, and food writer; event host and speaker; and drinks educator. He regularly contributes to Food & Wine, and his first book, Crushed: How A Changing Climate Is ...

While the American colonists drank hard cider like their modern-day counterparts swill Pepsi and Coca-Cola, for some, cider’s relatively mild 4 to 6 percent alcohol concentration just wasn’t alcoholic ...

HOLLAND TOWNSHIP, MI — A Michigan distiller is going to market this fall with what’s believed to be the state’s first distributed variety of applejack, a type of apple brandy once favored by George ...

It may come from an apple. But this is not apple juice. "It smells apple-y; it also smells very strong," said correspondent Mo Rocca. "It's 100% proof. So, it's a bit strong," said Lisa Laird Dunn, ...

BAINBRIDGE TOWNSHIP -- It's almost prayerful, the way Tom Herbruck communes with his spirits. Several evenings a week, in a tree-shrouded red barn, Herbruck engages in a ritual of wine and fire, of ...