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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta
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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

Our favorite places to stay, eat, drink, explore, and linger in one of Mexico's most captivating beach towns.

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Black Book: 14 Products Our Editors Loved in July 2026

The products our editors have been obsessed with in July 2026.

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Puerto Vallarta Beyond the Beach: A Journey Through Art & Culture

A guide to the galleries, murals, sculptures, and musical performances worth seeking out between beach days.

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A Guide to the Perfect Martini

While an evening with friends generally requires nothing more than a decent beer selection, the fact remains that some occasions will require you to up your drinking game. Put down the red cups and ping pong ball, nimrod, we're talking about a more sophisticated drink, a cocktail. And when sophistication…

By Kevin McCauley
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The 8 Beers You Should Drink This Summer

The smell of burgers searing on the grill is best accompanied by the taste of a cold, refreshing beer. A great summer beer cools you off and quenches your thirst while tasting damn good in the process. So put away the barrel-aged stouts and heavy barleywines and reach for one of these. These…

By Mike Newman
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Carlsberg Father of Quality Lager Is Brewed With Yeast From a 133-Year-Old Bottle

Unbeknownst to most, Carlsberg created a pure yeast over a century ago and distributed it for free to other breweries to combat beer sickness and widespread inconsistencies in repeated brews. The Re-Brew project uses an extracted sample of that original yeast from a 133-year-old Carlsberg bottle recently discovered in an…

By Cooper Fleishman
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14 Better Bottle Openers

There’s a world of beer we want to drink, and a lot of it comes in bottles. While you could open these 12-ouncers with a flat surface, a key, or—gasp!—your teeth, we prefer the simplest, least dentally damaging method: the bottle opener. Now that doesn’t mean you need a plastic…

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Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Stuffed With Reese’s Pieces

In the candy aisle hierarchy, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and Reese's Pieces stand next to each other near the top. Instead of duking it out and trampling over each other to get to Take 5 (because, let's be honest, that's who is at the top), Hershey's is letting them join forces.…

By Mike Newman
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