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 ...

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 ...

What many people don’t know about Chartreuse is that the Carthusian monks have made it since 1737. (Yes, you read that right.) Named after the monks’ Grande Chartreuse monastery, located in the ...

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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 ...

The monks who make the French liqueur announced they won't be ramping up production to meet demand. Brent Hofacker / Getty Images For as long as cocktail bars have been slinging drinks, Chartreuse has ...

Camper English’s new book Doctors and Distillers is the kind of summer read that cries out to be enjoyed with a spirit or cocktail in hand. An appropriate choice would be a small glass of Chartreuse.

Carthusian monks developed the recipe for Chartreuse over centuries, refining the instructions for an “elixir of long life.” It wasn’t until the mid-1800s that liqueur versions were released. The ...

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 ...

Behind the gray stone walls of the 900-year-old Grande Chartreuse monastery, high in the French Alps, two monks dry, crush, and sort 130 herbs and spices into burlap bags. The "plants room" where they ...

While it strives for all-local products, The Hangar bar at City Goods on W. 28th Street, uses some Chartreuse to produce traditional and classic cocktails. It will miss the French, green magic.

We’re uncorking our latest column, Bottoms Up — a weekly guide to everything brewed, bottled, blended, barrel-aged and generally booze-soaked. Up first, the strange-but-true story of chartreuse, an ...