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5 Useful Tips to Elevate your Bar Menu and Drinks Program

Chilled Magazine

In today’s craft cocktail culture, being forward-thinking with your drink program is important. Balance out the menu with an equal amount of sweet and spirit-forward cocktails and add a few savory and spicy options for diverse palates. Alcohol-free cocktails do not have to be cloyingly sweet or boring.

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Revisiting the ‘Hey Bartender’ Documentary, 10 Years After It Captured the Craft Cocktail Renaissance

VinePair

Ten years after “Hey Bartender”’s release captured the movement, we’re still seeing the fruits of such growth: These days, any city large enough to have a professional sports team will have a thriving craft cocktail scene. You could see the respect these craft bartenders had for Carpi and what he was doing,” he says.

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We’re Recapping Chilled 100 ELEVATE 2024: The Second Golden Age of the American Cocktail with Dale DeGroff and Ted Breaux

Chilled Magazine

The pair discussed the history of the American cocktail and how major U.S. events helped to shape the cocktails of today. Alcoholic beverages date back to 13,000 BCE, when the first evidence of brewing beer was documented. By 1806, the word “cocktail” appeared in print. and abroad was around 1914.

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Cocktails go through a Dizzying Turnaround

Spiritz

With innovation setting the pace in the bar scenario of India, cocktail culture has been undergoing a true-blue metamorphosis, driven by the need to continuously experiment and serve drinks that will keep the consumers coming back for more. Gone are the days when the bar was just a watering hole for those seeking alcoholic beverages.

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We Ask Bar Owner Joe Lamonica the Story Behind Vuolo’s Cocktail Menu

Chilled Magazine

Over the last 15 years in the restaurant industry, I have seen and even in the past participated in America’s unhealthy relationship with alcohol. Where do you see cocktail culture headed? I believe cocktail culture is headed towards more infusions and what I call “chef driven” concepts.

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Why Are Kalamatas the Black Sheep of Martini Olives?

VinePair

These days, every craft cocktail bar has a house spec, if not their very own Martini riff, sometimes tweaked to the point where it no longer resembles the cocktail in its classical guise. Cocktail culture is no stranger to defying the laws of tradition, so what is it about Kalamatas et al.

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10 Things You Should Know About Luxardo

VinePair

Either way, there’s no denying that Luxardo has ingrained itself in modern cocktail culture with a single stone fruit. The process starts with the harvest of the marasca cherries, which are immediately put in an alcoholic infusion in larch wood vats along with leaves and branches from the same trees for up to three years.

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