Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 3 shots of different flavored aquavit - Leonard Zhukovsky/Shutterstock Introduce yourself to aquavit, a traditional Scandinavian ...

Aquavit is a neutral grain- or potato-based spirit redistilled with herbs and botanicals, always including caraway and/or dill, and clocking in at 37.5% ABV or higher. The first recording of it being ...

A Scandinavian spirit, aquavit is gaining traction among American bartenders and drinkers, with global demand projected to grow faster than gin over the next decade. Distilled from neutral spirits and ...

Jacob Grier is a writer, bartender, and close-up magician in Portland, Oregon. His writing has appeared in Slate, Reason, The Atlantic, and many other publications. Walk into most bars in the United ...

An elderly Danish couple walked into Santa Cruz’s Venus Spirits tasting room recently to say thank you. They had been given a bottle of distiller Sean Venus’ new spirit — the caraway-forward ...

If you find yourself in Scandinavia, it's very likely that at some point somebody is going to hand you a glass of aquavit. What happens next depends on whether you're in Denmark, Norway or Sweden.