Matt Ortile travels to the French Prealps, where the elusive green liquor, derived from a 1605 recipe and still made by Carthusian monks, represents far more than just a cocktail ingredient.

WASHINGTON, DC OCTOBER 25: Chartreuse is a liqueur made by the Carthusian Monks since 1737 according to the instructions set out in a manuscript given to them by François Annibal d'Estrées in 1605.

“Ready?” says the bartender at No Goodbyes, a bar in Washington D.C., jiggling a bottle of green liquid. My friend and I are beyond ready: We’ve come for this, the Green Dream that bar manager Lukas B ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's time to give this herbal liqueur the respect it deserves. “There is a purposeful shortage of Chartreuse based on the monks not wanting to support alcoholism,” Pruitt tells me, though it’s worth ...

The monks who make the French liqueur announced they won't be ramping up production to meet demand. Katie Brown is an editor for Food & Wine specializing in kitchen product reviews. An avid home cook ...

The world-renowned “elixir of life” has been around for centuries, but its secret recipe — which has nearly disappeared several times — has never been revealed by the monks who made it famous.

If you grew up like me, going to a traditional Greek diner once a week, you probably encountered bars that looked something like the one pictured below that also happened to serve pastry. Most of the ...

Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. A person who is comfortable wearing chartreuse immediately projects two prized ...