Drink

Waunakee-based Untitled Art discovered a demand for nonalcoholic beverages during the pandemic.

The owners of a Madison coffee roaster now boast the top spot on a list of 2023’s best coffees with a brew the owners describe as sweet, bright and creamy. The Wilton Benitez Pink Bourbon Colombia roast by JBC Coffee Roasters earned the best rating of the year from Coffee Review, which publishes monthly tasting…

A conservative legal organization says it will file a lawsuit challenging a sweeping overhaul of state alcohol regulations that was signed into law by Gov. Tony Evers this week. The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, or WILL, said it has been talking with wedding barn owners who claim they’re being forced out of business…

When a pair of Wisconsin natives living in New York started a podcast about their favorite football team over a decade ago, they never thought it would lead to a Packers-themed beer available across the badger state. Lifelong Green Bay Packers fans Corey Behnke and Aaron Nagler started Cheesehead TV in 2007. Last year, they…

The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature passed a bipartisan measure on Tuesday to overhaul the state’s liquor laws and create new regulations for wedding barns. Senate Republican Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu introduced the proposal in a surprise, last-minute amendment that gutted a bill to set standards for alcohol and tobacco retailers and replaced it with lengthy liquor…

Despite renewed warnings over use of the artificial sweetener aspartame, a Wisconsin scientist who studies sweeteners says the ingredient is generally safe to consume. This year, the World Health Organization recommended against using artificial sweeteners like aspartame to control body weight and reported that aspartame could possibly be cancer-causing. But the agency also found the…

At The Kitchen restaurant in Sussex, professional eater Katina DeJarnett recently tackled one of Wisconsin’s biggest breakfast challenges. Six eggs, one pound of hash browns, five slices of toast, eight breakfast sausages, four large cajun sausages, six slices of bacon, a country fried steak, biscuits n’ gravy and six huge chocolate chip pancakes. She ate…

Dairy industry supporters have been arguing for years that plant-based products should not be allowed to use terms like “milk” or “cheese” on their labels. Now, that debate is growing to include products that are meant to mimic milk, but are made in a lab instead of by a cow. Lab-grown or cell-based dairy products…

A bipartisan bill seeking to tighten tobacco, alcohol, lottery and tax evasion laws in Wisconsin is gaining momentum in the State Capitol. The expansive legislation would increase penalties for businesses using software to avoid paying sales taxes, make it illegal for people to use alcohol vaping devices and require tobacco licenses to sell electronic cigarettes.…

Pabst Brewing Company announced this week that production of Old Style beer would return to La Crosse’s City Brewery in November. It’s the historic location of G. Heileman’s Brewing Company, where Old Style was invented in 1902, originally under the name Old Times Lager. Adam Powers, brand manager for Old Style, said the beer is…