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How Jackson Cannon Helped Build (and Rebuild) Boston’s Cocktail Culture

Imbibe Magazine

For a long while, it looked like Eastern Standard—the stylish and influential high-volume bar and restaurant near Fenway Park that opened in 2005—might also be among those casualties. “People would come in and say, ‘I used to have this cocktail in 2014. It closed in March 2020 when the Covid pandemic hit.

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How Flavored Whiskey Became a Major Part of Modern Drinks Culture

VinePair

Union, a company that supplies point-of-sale systems to more than a thousand high-volume bars and restaurants across the U.S., In the on-premise, that doesn’t happen, because if a product doesn’t sell, they don’t keep reordering it.” has its own data on how people order and drink flavored whiskeys when they’re out.

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Mezcal Amaras’ Luis Nino de Rivera Mesta on Trends, Challenges, and the Future of Mezcal

Drinkhacker

Another trend is that larger companies began entering the category in 2014, gaining strength in 2017, despite the category’s relatively small size. The challenges are first, to grow artisanal mezcal to high volumes without compromising mature agave and the traditional process. This is still at a small scale but is on the rise.

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Better Together: Why Craft Breweries Are Sharing Taprooms and Brewing Systems

VinePair

We all just ramped up production and bought tanks,” says Kieran Farrell, an owner and director of operations of Gun Hill Brewing , which opened in New York City in 2014. “In Many partner breweries work with Dorchester to produce high-volume beers, reserving smaller-batch experiments for taprooms. In hindsight it was a mistake.”

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Next Wave Awards Industry Icon of the Year: Clover Club

VinePair

But a new-look team was formed when general manager Christine Williams officially became a partner in 2014. Prior to Clover Club, Reiner became the face of one of New York’s first high-volume craft cocktail bars when she and Fedroff, along with four other partners, founded The Flatiron Lounge (2003-2018).

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