Meeting the global demand for their historic herbal liqueur got to be too much for the Carthusian monks who have worked and prayed silently in the Alps north of Grenoble, France for centuries. Earlier ...

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 ...

The first thing you notice is the color, a particular and lovely translucent green, the green of a deep tropical sea, of a primeval planet steaming in the sun, yet modern, too, a glowing neon, a ...

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 ...

Chartreuse is a distinctly radioactive-looking yellow-green elixir from France. You might not open the Chartreuse all that often; perhaps you even find it a bit intimidating. And that’s okay, because ...

In the 11th century, Bruno of Cologne, a renowned cleric and intellectual from a noble German family, rejected the chance to become a bishop. Forswearing the career bump of higher placement in the ...

Just as the herbal liqueur is becoming more popular, the French order that has produced it for more than two centuries is pulling back to focus on faith. According to lore, the formula for Chartreuse ...

YOU PEER THROUGH the glass at the emerald liquid shimmering within, turning the very sun green with envy as it filters through the bottle to your gleaming eye. This grass-colored liqueur, with its ...