Chilled Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2023

FAT-WASHING When it comes to fat-washing cocktails, owner, and bar director at NYC’s NR, Shigefumi (Shige) Kabashima, believes the old-school method is still around simply because it’s logical. In 2000, I started in the industry as a bartender at Kirin’s Hartland Bar in Tokyo.

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Chilled Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Visitors from far and wide look forward to experiencing not only the healing powers of the mineral water in Saratoga, but they also enjoy indulging in the refreshing qualities of a drink in the pubs, restaurants, and wine bars of the Broadway District and sprawling along Caroline Street. Liqueur , Rum French Vacation Ingredients 2 oz.

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Drinkhacker

JANUARY 4, 2024

A recent visit here took me to two upscale cocktail bars to sample the city’s latest in drinkdom. Read on for the boozy details on Christina’s Shoreditch and Scarfes Bar. Plenty of folks popped in and out of the bar for a quick pre- or post-dinner tipple — and there’s no standing on ceremony here.

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Drinkhacker

MARCH 11, 2025

While single vintage brandy releases continue apace, the brand is now anchored by a flagship brandy-influenced blend, 1928. Add to all that a handful of unique one-offs, from rum to Indian single malt , and you get a sense of how much product momentum Bhakta has going into the future. And I went to a state school.

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Bar Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Taking place on Sunday 30 th March in the sustainable event space Palo Alto, the programme will include some of the biggest names of The Worlds 50 Best Bars, such as Bar Leone, The Cambridge Public House and Zest, uniting them to tackle some of the biggest issues of environmental and social sustainability.

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Chilled Magazine

APRIL 17, 2024

Founders Albert Peters, Edwin Pooley, and Edgar McClain began making fruit wine and brandies from the abundance of fruit in the region, taking only a brief hiatus to make industrial alcohol for the war effort.

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A Bar Above

MAY 20, 2024

Table of Contents : Margarita Raspberry Lemonade Sparkler Daiquiri Sangria Whiskey Sour Punch Mocktails List of Bar Tools You’ll Need Photo courtesy of DesignPickle/stock.adobe.com The Classic Margarita The classic Margarita is one of the best celebratory cocktails you could offer your guests. Want to make a non-alcoholic version?

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Cheers

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The cruise line also introduced its exclusive Rum Ambassador programming on all Caribbean sailings, developed in collaboration with beverage experts and historians David Wondrich and Jeff “Beachbum” Berry. El Presidente: Planteray 3 Star rum, vermouth blanc, dashes of orange Curaçao, grenadine.

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PubClub

DECEMBER 8, 2023

People party at Cityscape bar in San Francisco on New Year’s Eve. Photo: Nick Graham New Year’s Eve in San Francisco takes on many forms and one elevated place – quite literally – to spend it is at Cityscape Bar. Seating is first come, first served unless a bottle service package is purchased. Cocktail attire is requested.

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VinePair

APRIL 7, 2025

Traditionally made with Suntory Toki Whisky and soda water, the classic Japanese highball first took off in Japan in the 1950s and can now be found just about everywhere in the country, from renowned cocktail bars to vending machines. Japanese bar culture is starting to become more and more prominent in the U.S.,

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PubClub

AUGUST 14, 2024

This is a rum cocktail which is something to drink on National Rum Day, Aug. National Rum Day is Aug. 16 and these San Diego bars are marking the occasion with rum drinks and specials. Join the Caribe Cartel by taking a “flight” to the rum region of your choice, earning pins and merchandise.

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Australian Bartender

JUNE 20, 2024

She is the co-owner of Goodwater in Melbourne and the face and talent behind the cocktailing YouTube channel Behind the Bar. ” And so the concept of Bar Spontana started to bubble. ” They currently have an impressive selection of spontaneously fermented rums, agave spirits, and brandies.

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VinePair

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

There are also dozens of ways to work the fruit into libations with apple brandy, apple juice, syrups, or even fresh slices, though no one method is superior. Featuring applejack or apple brandy , the cocktail is sweetened with grenadine for a tart hint of pomegranate.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Mix, who co-owns pan-Latin cocktail bar Leyenda in Brooklyn and literally wrote the book on Latin American spirits, has long championed the Peruvian grape distillate both as a versatile cocktail component and as a neat sipping spirit, and for good reason. And year after year, she’s disappointed. But Pisco’s popularity in the U.S.

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Cocktails with Suderman

JANUARY 10, 2024

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the Brandy Alexander , a three-ingredient classic that combines brandy with heavy cream and creme de cacao, for a milky, chocolate, dessert-like cocktail confection. But the Brandy Alexander wasn’t always a Brandy Alexander. What’s the right rum? So many recipes!

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Cocktails with Suderman

OCTOBER 27, 2023

If I had to pick a single type of liquor that’s most underrated by home bartenders, it would be brandy — and American apple brandy in particular. Apple brandy was a favorite of America’s Founders, and you can still buy something branded as George Washington’s Apple Brandy from the Mount Vernon distillery.

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Barina Craft

DECEMBER 31, 2023

The Happy New Year Cocktail - An Eve(ning) Of Fun Toasts The Happy New Year cocktail is a drink mixed with brandy, ruby port wine, orange juice and champagne. American Rose - brandy, licorice liqueur, grenadine syrup and champagne. Chicago Cocktail - brandy, orange liqueur, aromatic bitters and Champagne. Top off with Champagne.

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Drinkhacker

MAY 17, 2024

Mai Tai The story of the Mai Tai is the story of tiki, one of the most iconic drinks – if not the most iconic drink – to come out of ‘40s rum culture. Designed by Trader Vic himself in 1944 in his Oakland watering hole, it’s a deceptively simple drink that, nonetheless, is invariably bastardized outside of high-end and tiki bars. (If

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The Whiskey Wash

JULY 21, 2024

You will find the concoction on almost every cocktail bar menu in the United States, and the drink also has a huge fanbase across the rest of the world. When the Navy was conducting voyages in the Caribbean in the 16 and 1700s they found themselves a plentiful supply of rum. The Whiskey Sour is a classic American cocktail.

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Cheers

JANUARY 3, 2024

The rooftop bar and lounge at the Luma Hotel San Francisco — a BevX winner for Best Innovative Independent Beverage Program — has used that experience to create a beverage program that’s infused with Latin American spirit and vibrancy. The bar boasts natural wines from Chile, Argentina, Spain and California.

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VinePair

JANUARY 9, 2024

A colleague, my wife, and I were leaving Baba au Rum, one of the oldest of the new breed of craft cocktail bars in Athens, with the idea of heading to The Bar in Front of the Bar, another leading saloon. Between Baba au Rum and The Bar in Front of the Bar, we had traveled all of 400 meters.

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Cocktails with Suderman

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

And it’s a story that results in one of my favorite clever drink variations — an apple brandy-forward riff on the Penicillin (a honey-ginger Scotch whisky sour) that I’ve never seen published anywhere. You’ll need bottles of apple brandy and Scotch whisky. What sort of words will they focus on?

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Drinkhacker

JUNE 16, 2024

Chances are, you are not going to find a Tasmanian whisky on the back bar of your favorite watering hole or even at your local purveyor of fine spirits. It defies easy categorization, with a sweet and perfumed nose that could easily be mistaken for brandy or even an old rum.

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Barina Craft

JANUARY 25, 2024

Game Day Drinks And Cocktails For All 32 NFL Football Teams Football season means great tailgate parties away at the stadium for home games and at your in home bar for away games when your team is on road. Cleveland Browns: Brown Cocktail - equal parts gin, light or dark rum and dry vermouth.

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Cocktails with Suderman

JANUARY 7, 2025

Do you have a question about cocktails, bars, booze, home bartending, or something else related to the topics discussed in this newsletter? 1 In addition to mezcal and rye, Cynar pairs exceptionally well with apple brandy , another underrated bottle that should be in every home bar. Short answer: Anything you want.)

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VinePair

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It also sold two brands of in-house rye , two types of Scotch , a vodka , brandy , and several cordials. According to Kristopher Peterson, the general manager and spirits archivist for Mordecai, a bar in Chicago that specializes in vintage spirits, the majority of private-label bourbons debuted in the 1980s, when bourbon sales were poor.

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A Bar Above

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Art by Eve Martinez, Copyright A Bar Above 1. Champagne Cocktail Ingredients: 1/2 oz Aged Rum 1/2 oz Pear Puree Syrup 1/2 oz Fresh Lemon Juice 5 oz Champagne Directions: Build the cocktail in a shaker tin – except champagne – and add ice. Art by Eve Martinez, Copyright A Bar Above 2. Garnish with a lemon twist.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Margarita is just such a vehicle for tequila — it’s just one of the most popular cocktails that gets ordered across any bar program, if not the most popular cocktail,” Davidson says. Credit: Swizzle Rum Bar & Drinkery That said, less is often more, he notes. Slivovitz probably needs a signature cocktail.

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Barina Craft

JANUARY 1, 2025

History Of The Duck Fart Cocktail A 70 year old woman, name unknown, walks into a bar* in Anchorage, Alaska in December, 1987 and asks bartender Dave Schmidt for a shot of tequila, followed by a B-52 and then a Grasshopper.* Another has him wearing a rubber ducky style duck bill that night while tending bar. One walks into a bar.

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VinePair

AUGUST 5, 2024

The Mule was the third best-selling cocktail of 2023 in the United States, trailing only the Margarita and the Martini, according to NielsenQ (NIQ) data compiled from more than 10,000 independent and chain restaurants and bars. 7 on the North American 50 Best Bars list ). This doesn’t always spring from the minds of barkeeps, either.

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VinePair

JUNE 20, 2024

dive bars, where many bartenders garnish theirs with a slice of lemon instead of the American-preferred lime. See Recipe The 7 & 7 Made with one part Seagram’s 7 blended whiskey and two parts 7Up — hence the simple moniker — the 7 & 7 has remained one of the most dependable dive-bar orders since its heyday in the ‘70s.

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Good Spirits News

AUGUST 2, 2024

The remaining bottles will be available at limited bars, restaurants and retailers beginning August 2024. SRP $79) Planteray Mister Fogg Navy Rum This limited edition navy rum was created by Maison Ferrand owner and Planteray Master Blender Alexandre Gabriel.

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PubClub

OCTOBER 15, 2024

A cute and enthsiastic bartender at University of Alabama Strip bar Twelve 25 gets excited talking about The Tipsy Elephant drink. In Tuscaloosa, it’s party of the bar and nightlife culture, especially at along the University of Alabama Strip. Overall, Gallette’s is one of the best bars in Tuscaloosa.

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Drinkhacker

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Located in Post Falls, Idaho, Up North Distillery distills whiskey and brandy, but also honey spirit. Honey Spirit isn’t something that I care to sip neat, but Up North clearly states that it’s intended to be used as a replacement for white rum or vodka in a cocktail.

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Cocktails with Suderman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

There’s the Boulevardier (a Negroni with whiskey), the Kingston Negroni (a Negroni with dark, high-proof Jamaican rum), and the Mezcal Negroni (a Negroni with, you guessed it, mezcal). These cocktails are all classics or minor classics, popular enough to be served in bars all over the country for years upon years. Everything! )

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Mr. Boston Bartender's Guide

JULY 17, 2023

It’s made with hot water, honey, lemon juice, and a splash of whiskey, rum, or brandy. Ingredients 1 cup hot water 1 tbsp honey 1 tbsp lemon juice 1 ½ oz whiskey, rum, or brandy 1 cinnamon stick (optional) Instructions In a heatproof glass or mug, combine the hot water, honey, and lemon juice. Serve and enjoy!

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VinePair

DECEMBER 19, 2023

A simple blend of rum, sugar, and arabica coffee, Kahlúa has been produced in Veracruz, Mexico, since 1936 and it’s as iconic as it is delicious. Add a teaspoon of it to a Negroni or a tropical rum drink and see where experimentation takes you, or go classic with a White Russian.

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