Alcohol - The Durango Herald

Durango teen vaping rates outstrip state average

Health department: Vaping an ‘on-ramp’ to addiction

DATE: Nov 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Durango Craft Spirits goes big on small-batch liquors

Healthy sales growth prompts expansion

DATE: Oct 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Business

Beer lovers, listen up: New book has some life hacks for you

NEW YORK – Beer snobs, turn away, Ben Robinson has some hacks involving your favorite, foamy beverage. The editor in chief of The Observer has written a handy little every guy’s i...

DATE: Sep 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Beer maker Heineken strikes deal to expand in China

BRUSSELS – Heineken, the world’s second-largest brewer, has struck a deal to expand in China, the world’s biggest beer market. Heineken said Friday it is buying a 40 percent stake...

DATE: Aug 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Durango Police cracks down on liquor law violations

Three bartenders cited for serving minors last weekend

DATE: Jul 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

How to drink tequila and mezcal like a grown-up

There’s something about tequila that activates the revelry gland, whatever part of the American brain it is that responds to a bottle of Cuervo by bawling “PAAAAARRRTY!” No one ba...

DATE: Jul 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Jack Daniel’s prices increase in Europe because of tariffs

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The price of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey will increase in the European Union because of the impact of the bloc’s new 25 percent tariff. The EU is taxing a ra...

DATE: Jun 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Distillery has new bourbon flavored by beaver secretion

TAMWORTH, N.H. – Beaver-flavored whiskey, anyone? A New Hampshire distillery has a new bourbon, Eau De Musc, flavored partly by the secretion from a beaver’s castor sacs. ...

DATE: Jun 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Upgrade your ‘ade, or how to spike summer’s favorite thirst quencher

I don’t know about you, but now and then I kind of regret developing high standards. I can still enjoy movies that fall into the so-bad-they’re-good category (I’m looking at you, “Con Air”),...

DATE: Jun 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

You don’t have to be a bro to love Fireball Whiskey cake

I couldn’t help but be intrigued and entertained when I came across a cake recipe with an unusual ingredient: cinnamon-flavored Fireball Whiskey. It uses instant vanilla pudding mix, too – s...

DATE: Mar 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Jane Walker to replace Johnnie Walker on some scotch bottles

NEW YORK – It’s not the alcohol playing tricks on your eyes: The striding figure on some bottles of Johnnie Walker scotch will be Jane Walker. Liquor maker Diageo says it plans to...

DATE: Feb 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food