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 ...

Behind the gray stone walls of the 900-year-old Grande Chartreuse monastery, high in the French Alps, two monks dry, crush, and sort 130 herbs and spices into burlap bags. The "plants room" where they ...

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 ...

In 1984, German filmmaker Philip Groning asked the Carthusian monks at the Grande Chartreuse Monastery in the French Alps if he could make a film about them. They said they’d get back to him and did – ...

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 ...

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The old-world spirits of Europe are making a cocktail-hour comeback. Stir some unique flavor into your routine happy hours with these classic contenders. Chartreuse This ever-gorgeous, yellow-green ...