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The Treacherous, Untold Toll Bartending Takes on the Body

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Allan Katz loves bartending. His decades-long battle with chronic pain didn’t result from a freak accident or a sports injury; it’s the result of over two decades of bartending in craft cocktail bars across the country. The Occupational Hazards of Mixology Bartending can be glamorous.

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Building Faster Rounds — and Better Drinks — With Attaboy’s Haley Traub

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Who needs low-ABV cocktails when you have slow-ass bartenders? This question, shared as a cheeky joke in an Instagram story, became a viral moment for Erick Castro , the legendary bartender behind San Diego’s Raised By Wolves and Gilly’s House of Cocktails , and host of the award-winning Bartender at Large podcast.

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Next Wave Awards Industry Icon of the Year: Clover Club

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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). Macy no longer tends bar there, but remains a creative consultant.

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Tales of the Cocktail Foundation Announces 2024 Cocktail Apprentice Program® (CAP) BAR 5-Day Program® Scholarship Recipients

Tales of the Cocktail

Kai Lucas Head Instructor of European Bartender School, Brooklyn, NY 2023 Red Coat “I am so happy to have become a member of this amazing CAP family and to be able to have all the new opportunities to grow and improve. Founded by six of the biggest names in the bartending industry, Dale DeGroff, Doug Frost, Steve Olson, F.

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Tales of the Cocktail Foundation Announces 2024 Cocktail Apprentice Program® (CAP) BAR 5-Day Program® Scholarship Recipients

Tales of the Cocktail

Kai Lucas Head Instructor of European Bartender School, Brooklyn, NY 2023 Red Coat “I am so happy to have become a member of this amazing CAP family and to be able to have all the new opportunities to grow and improve. Founded by six of the biggest names in the bartending industry, Dale DeGroff, Doug Frost, Steve Olson, F.

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What’s In a Name? How the ‘Agave Spirits’ Label Seeks to Redefine “Craft”

Taste Tequila

The initial growth of mezcal brought more interest in other agave spirits from Mexico,” says Andres Moran , a Guadalajara-based bartender, brand rep, and spirits educator. They stopped using the word “tequila” on their labels in 2018. If the bartender grabs a bottle and says, “I have a great new mezcal for you to try!”,

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