drinks

Competing with the slew of Union 50excellent cocktail bars along Mass Ave is a tall order. Even taller? The spectacular 20-foot-high wall of backlit liquor bottles at Union 50.

“On Fast Friday or Carb Day, there’s nothing wrong with a beer at breakfast.”

Take a look at its barrel-aged cocktail program.

From spicy to smoky to sweet, these drinks are buzzworthy.

It’s hosting one of the city’s biggest St. Patrick’s Day blowouts, celebrating a tradition as old as itself.

Where do people go when they use such a speedy car service?

An exuberant crew of groupies gathers once a month for a multicourse meal that lasts well into the wee hours.

Eddie Sahm will put into play an approachable, beer-friendly menu and a selection of concession-stand classics to serve to Monon Trail users.

Pour yourself into a weekend of cocktailing, food pairings, meet-and-greets, and more.

You’ll be the party-starting envy of all your chums—and you can surprise that special someone by slipping one into his or her stocking for the next morning.

Including Hotel Tango’s sugar-rimmed Mason jar of spiced-rum cider.

Opening a tequila bar in the gingerbread-trimmed village of Zionsville sounds like the kind of business plan one might draw up after too many shots of Patron.

Some of the top bartenders in Indianapolis reached for their shakers to duel in a mixology competition on the final night of the 2014 Beer, Wine, and Spirits Trade Show.

Including the bracing Chicago Cider from The Ball & Biscuit’s new brunch menu.

In a market crowded with pedigreed brewers, a place founded by three law-school students and their friends with a little homebrewing experience sounds like a recipe for Imperial Disaster. (Not actually an esoteric beer name. Yet.) But the owners of Black Acre in Irvington have had their day in court, and we’re ruling in their favor.