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We Asked 15 What’s the Best New Rum That’s Earned a Spot on Your Bar? (2024)

VinePair

For years, much of American cocktail culture treated rum as little more than a summertime spirit or a match for Coke and ginger beer. Dean Hakim, bar manager, Heirloom at the St. Damian Langarica, Bar Manager, Irwin’s , Philadelphia “My favorite rum at the moment is El Dorado’s High Ester Blend Rum.

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We Asked 10 Bartenders: What’s the Easiest Cocktail to Master?

VinePair

There are many ways people make a Moscow Mule, but the one that bothers me is pouring a one-and-one of vodka and ginger beer and calling it a cocktail. Credit: @junglehaus.cocktails on Instagram “For me, managing at a tiki bar, I would say the easiest cocktail to master is a Honeysuckle, a rum-based cocktail.

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Raising the Bar: What It Takes To Succeed as a Bartender Today

VinePair

Ten or 15 years ago, dive bars were beer-and-a-shot spots. If I own a bar that’s just making Gimlets, but this other bar is making Gimlets with a cloud that explodes on top of it, then it becomes a Cold War arms race to capture people’s attention.” Now bar managers are asking, ‘What is your background?’

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These San Diego Bars Are Celebrating National Rum Day With Drink Specials

PubClub

The Whiskey House also has one of the best Happy H0urs in the area, which is every day from 4-7 and includes a tall draft beer for $5. The beachy beverage is from Bar Manager Andrew Phillips, who came to Sandpiper from Cellar 335, one of the top-rated tiki bars in the NYC area according to Yelp.

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23rd Annual Bartender Magazine Bar Awards: The complete list of finalists is here!

Australian Bartender

Adelaide, SA Antico, Brisbane, QLD Rum Bar of the Year Proudly sponsored by The House of Angostura Bar Kokomo, Darwin, NT Blue Kahunas, Newcastle, NSW Burrow Bar, Sydney, NSW Flamingo’s Tiki Bar, Cairns, QLD Hains & Co.,

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The New Guard of the East Village Cocktail Scene Has Arrived

VinePair

Ten years ago, Vodka Sodas weren’t the kind of drink you ordered at the bars that made East Village the soul of New York City’s globally influential cocktail scene. These old-school bars have graduated to legacy status, and a new generation of bars are forging their own path.

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Trick Dog Bar Announces The Salty Dog Menu

Bartender.com

The Salty Dog’s 17 original creations are each named after a famous pirate ship, draw inspiration from classic cocktails and tropical drinks you might find at a Tiki bar and are executed with Trick Dog’s signature culinary approach. With movement and energy, but sitting happily behind the foreground text and cocktail images.

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