I made an impulse purchase and brought the mag home with my four bags of high priced groceries. There are some interesting articles inside, like this one about a new breed of moonshiners.
Imbibe Magazine’s Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Karen Foley (who migrated to Portland from Savannah) was interviewed by The Portland Tribune in 2006 when the magazine launched.
“There’s tons of food magazines,” she says, “but the interesting thing that I found when I started looking around was that there wasn’t anything like Imbibe that existed. There wasn’t a single magazine that was taking the approach of a food magazine and applying it to beverages, looking at drinks as cuisine and also looking at drinks from a very cultural perspective.”
Around the world, there are special customs and stories tied to drinking, and that goes well beyond the social bonding associated with alcohol. From ancient tea ceremonies to the athletic posturing of bottled-water brands, from Oktoberfest to lemonade stands, there’s plenty of ground to be covered both in and outside of Cocktail Nation.
The Trib notes that Imbibe is the only "nationally geared, mainstream periodical" to be headquartered in Portland.
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