Why does a French liqueur cost more than Pappy Van Winkle? The answer lies in Chartreuse's extraordinary history and its ...

While it strives for all-local products, The Hangar bar at City Goods on W. 28th Street, uses some Chartreuse to produce traditional and classic cocktails. It will miss the French, green magic.

Chartreuse -- a color better known these days as "Brat Green" -- gets its name not from a herb or a flower as one might expect, but from an alcoholic beverage. More accurately, chartreuse gets its ...

It's one of the world's most mysterious drinks - and one of the most popular. However, a global shortage of French herbal liqueur Chartreuse has been giving bartenders everywhere a particularly acute ...

Carthusian monks developed the recipe for Chartreuse over centuries, refining the instructions for an “elixir of long life.” It wasn’t until the mid-1800s that liqueur versions were released. The ...

Tierney Plumb is an editor of Eater’s Northeast region, covering D.C., Boston, Philly, and New York. Bars across D.C. are capitalizing on heightened demand for a syrupy and spicy spirit made by French ...

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 ...

Bartenders and lovers of Chartreuse are experiencing a hard lesson in supply and demand with the recent shortage of the distinct green liqueur. Chartreuse is from the French Alps and has been made by ...

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 ...

While we're certainly appreciative of all the efforts various sects of monks have made in the advancement of knowledge throughout history, how about their work in the time-honored tradition of ...

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 ...