Peppermint schnapps is mostly known for producing the only hangover that comes with fresh breath. The drink of choice at ski lodges or smuggled onto a chairlift, the cooling liqueur has mostly escaped ...

Upstate New York is home to nearly 100 distilleries, making a wide variety of liquors. Many start by making clear, or unaged spirits, like vodka, gin and moonshine (unaged whiskey) because they take ...

As liqueurs go, peach schnapps doesn't have the best reputation. It smells like peach candy and is simultaneously super-sweet and way harsher than such a low-proof drink has any right to be, making it ...

Oberkirch is a small village of about 20,000 in Renchtal, a region on the western edge of Germany’s Black Forest. Like many other villages nearby, people visit here for world-class restaurants, ...

In Friesach, the picture-perfect Austrian town halfway between Vienna and Venice, in the Carinthian Alps, there is a bar that changed my understanding of the word “schnapps.” Berni’s, an unassuming ...

After a big meal, Linda List of Perry Hall likes nothing better than to settle in with a small glass of peppermint schnapps. “I couldn’t tell you how it works,” she says. “I just know it makes me feel ...