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 ...

YOU PEER THROUGH the glass at the emerald liquid shimmering within, turning the very sun green with envy as it filters through the bottle to your gleaming eye. This grass-colored liqueur, with its ...

We’re uncorking our latest column, Bottoms Up — a weekly guide to everything brewed, bottled, blended, barrel-aged and generally booze-soaked. Up first, the strange-but-true story of chartreuse, an ...

What many people don’t know about Chartreuse is that the Carthusian monks have made it since 1737. (Yes, you read that right.) Named after the monks’ Grande Chartreuse monastery, located in the ...

Matt Ortile travels to the French Prealps, where the elusive green liquor, derived from a 1605 recipe and still made by ...

Legendary writer Hunter S. Thompson's holy trinity for inspiration was marijuana, cocaine, and Chartreuse. In his song "'Til the Money Runs Out," Tom Waits sings about buying "a pint of green ...

Camper English’s new book Doctors and Distillers is the kind of summer read that cries out to be enjoyed with a spirit or cocktail in hand. An appropriate choice would be a small glass of Chartreuse.

In the two-plus decades that I have been behind bars, I’ve noticed some fads when it comes to what my brethren drink while we work. I’m not talking about sipping cocktails or some rare craft beer; I’m ...

Four months ago, Joshua Lutz started scouring the country for Chartreuse, the bright-green herbal liqueur based on a secret recipe of 130 botanicals and produced in the French Alps by the Carthusian ...

The first thing you notice is the color, a particular and lovely translucent green, the green of a deep tropical sea, of a primeval planet steaming in the sun, yet modern, too, a glowing neon, a ...