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 ...

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 ...

Chartreuse is hard to find but it is still a key ingredient in many classic cocktails including the Last Word (pictured). Chartreuse is special. That’s what Daniel Grajewski, senior director of wine ...

“Ready?” says the bartender at No Goodbyes, a bar in Washington D.C., jiggling a bottle of green liquid. My friend and I are beyond ready: We’ve come for this, the Green Dream that bar manager Lukas B ...

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.

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 ...