Sweeter grapes do not make sweeter wine. They make stronger wine. All of that sugar turns into alcohol, so how sweet the fruit tastes in your hand is really a number telling…

Most of the hopped ciders you will find are built dry — closer to a West Coast IPA, where the bitterness is the whole point. That is a fine thing to make,…

Amburana is not subtle. Amburana cearensis is a South American hardwood with a long history in Brazilian cachaça, where native woods became part of the aging tradition alongside oak. Of those woods,…

Critical density is a figure from cosmology. It's the exact amount of matter the universe needs to hold its shape — a little more and gravity closes it up, a little less…