Our 10 Most-Read Stories of 2019
From mastering the Amaretto Sour with Jeffrey Morgenthaler to exploring suburban New Jersey's secret bar scene, here's a look back at the most popular stories on PUNCH this year.
- story: Punch Staff
- photo: YouTube
The Top 10 Beers of 2019
Aaron Goldfarb picks the most memorable beers he tasted this year.
- story: Aaron Goldfarb
- photo: Lizzie Munro
How Does a Brewery Define Its Style?
A little-known technique is helping brewers establish distinctive house flavor profiles.
- story: Aaron Goldfarb
- photo: Lizzie Munro
Pliny the Immortal
Cult beers come and go, but for nearly two decades, the dry, piney double IPA has never lost its luster.
- story: Aaron Goldfarb
- photo: Nick Hensley
Evil Twin Wants to Be Your Neighbor
With its first brick-and-mortar, the boundary-pushing brewery is turning its attention to beers for “normal people.”
- story: Justin Kennedy
- photo: Caroline Lethbridge
The Quiet Genius of Wunderkammer
Vasilios Gletsos, brewmaster at Hill Farmstead, is drawing on the naturalistic, agrarian and mystical for beers that defy categorization.
- story: Justin Kennedy
- photo: PUNCH
Lambic Has Been Lying to Us
The storied Belgian beer is upheld as a relic of the medieval age. But what if everything we know about its history is wrong?
- story: Joshua M. Bernstein
- photo: PUNCH
What We’re Into Right Now
Campari Daiquiris in Toronto, Alice Feiring's guide to natural wine, a London bar by way of New York and more.
- story: Punch Staff
- photo: Lizzie Munro
Forever In the Beerlight
Poet and songwriter David Berman was a chronicler of darkness and duct tape, robots and radios—with a drink ever lurking at the periphery.
- story: Joshua David Stein
- illustration: Nick Hensley-Wagner
Britain’s Messy Habit of Messing with Beer
From the Snakebite and the Purple Nasty to the Light and Bitter and Lager and Lime, a close look at the very British art of adulterating beer.
- story: George Reynolds
- photo: Lizzie Munro
Your Move, German Pilsner
How a single Italian beer launched a whole new style of pilsner.
- story: Justin Kennedy
- photo: Alexa Bendek
Zima x Jolly Ranchers
An unlikely match that says everything about drinking young—and in the '90s.
- story: Matt Rodbard
- photo: Lauren Cierzan