Al-Kee-Hol

Daiquiris are delicious. So delicious that we decided to go down to New Orleans and try to get our hands on as many different flavors as we could. But as you can see in the video, the drink comes in a near endless variety and we could barely scratch the surface. We had fun trying, though.

Newcastle, England is a northern party city that’s rife with hen (a.k.a. bachelorette) parties, plus it’s a great place to grab a late night snack called parma, which is basically a pizza made with chicken instead of crust. But besides the debauchery and greasy post-bar snacks, Newcastle is an excellent city to drink a few pints of real, cask ale. We sent two of our Al-Kee-Hol correspondents, Adam and Patrick, out for a marathon of real ales that took them to some old, incredible English pubs. Watch and enjoy.

In this episode of Al-Kee-Hol, our host Billy Wagner takes us on a tour through Frankfurt’s Sachsenhausen district to visit several traditional Ebbelwoi pubs serving the tart, cider-like beverage known as Apfelwein.

Japan is famous for many things: beautiful temples, incredible food, great baseball players, and of course, sake. In this episode of Al-kee-hol, host Yuka Uchida (of poo wine fame) and her friend Cindee delve into the more traditional world of sake.

In the latest episode of Al-Kee-Hol, called Getting to Know Golden, presented by Coors Banquet, chef and host Lee Tiernan heads to Golden, Colorado to explore the Coors Banquet brewery. Between crash-landing a paraglider and ripping down mountains on a dirt bike, Lee tours the brewery and gets a lesson in beer science from the best in the business.

If you thought the only Japanese beers were Asahi, Kirin and Sapporo, think again. In this episode of Al-Kee-Hol, host Yuka Uchida explores the booming business of craft beer in Tokyo. From passion fruit-infused lagers to unfiltered hand-pumped black ales to microbrews served in a refurbished shipping container, Yuka and her pal Ogi sample enough beer to earn the title of beer otaku (beer nerds)!

In this episode of Al-Kee-Hol, hosts Adam Jackson and Patrick McGuire head to Canada’s Niagara-on-the-Lake region and hit up Inniskillin winery, Reif Estate Winery, Flat Rock Cellars, Cave Spring Cellars, and Sue-Ann Staff Estate Winery for a drinkable tour of their ice wines, made from grapes that are harvested while totally frozen on the vine.

Soju—a.k.a. Korean firewater—is the world’s most popular spirit, selling twice as much as vodka (its closest competitor) each year. In this episode of Al-Kee-Hol, Charlet Duboc travels to Seoul to investigate the fascinating history and etiquette of soju drinking, which has been part of Korean culture for nearly a thousand years. And in the process, she gets out-of-this-world wasted.

In this episode of Al-Kee-Hol, we follow our host Dominique Rousake on a trip along the “Route de l’Absinthe”, the beautiful French-Swiss absinthe route, and watch as he learns about the history and effects of absinthe—the potent, anise-flavored spirit that was a favorite of Vincent van Gogh, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, as well as many more artists and thinkers.

In this episode of Al-Kee-Hol, our host Yuka and her friend Cindee meet up with some priests in Kyoto, Japan and get closer to the gods—through drinking. Their first stop is to a Shinto shrine, where they learn about the relationship between booze and the gods and how drinking sake can mean receiving holy power.

In this episode of Al-Kee-Hol, we meet up with world famous photographer Atiba Jefferson to visit the Jägermeister factory in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. Atiba has had a genuine love for and obsession with for Jägermeister for many years now—it’s his drink of choice wherever he goes—so here’s the perfect person to accompany us on our tour.

Simon Coutu and Ogden Ridjanovic go on an all-day bender in regional Quebec to find out why it’s so difficult to purchase locally crafted spirits.

On this episode of Al-Kee-Hol, MUNCHIES Host Ailine Liefeld travels to a forest in Frankonia, Germany, where fresh beer is stored inside an old tunnel system in a mountain.