PUNCH

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Add more bitters. This irreverent, influential book published nearly 15 years ago rewrote the rules of modern bartending. Stir your sour. Forget the ice.

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Chilled Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Garvey took charge of his future by creating something deeply personal and meaningful: The Brunch God comic book. This comic book is a culmination of my love for anime, cocktails, and the brunch culture that earned me the nickname “Brunch God.” Embrace the universe’s synchronicities and stay focused on your goals.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

At a recent symposium on sustainability, the moderator queried a panel of bartenders about their favorite bartending books. I’ve heard the question posed many times through the years, but one bartender’s unequivocal response that day reminded me how often the answer is the same.

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Imbibe Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Our 2024 holiday gift guide covers all types of swoon-worthy options, whether you’re looking for stocking stuffers, a gift in a specific price range, or splurges to delight home bartenders and drink enthusiasts, or for yourself. Her new book offers family stories, historical notes on African brewing, and more than 80 recipes.

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VinePair

AUGUST 28, 2024

He started as a busser at 18 and worked his way up to bartending. Being a creative, well-known bartender in New Jersey was one thing, but Firmani had his sights set just across the Hudson River in New York City. I love Negronis, so I wanted to incorporate more bitter flavors but keep it refreshing.

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A Bar Above

MAY 28, 2024

Gin fan: Our resident bartender, Rob, often reaches for Drumshanbo gunpower gin. Photo courtesy of Macmillan/Media Lab Books (Product stock photo) THE GIFT OF KNOWLEDGE: COCKTAIL BOOKS A recipe book full of delicious cocktails just waiting to be made is the great, cheap gift for a bookworm Dad who loves stirring up his own drinks.

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Chilled Magazine

JULY 22, 2024

The first known printed mention of the Lucien Gaudin cocktail appears in the 1929 book “Cocktails de Paris,” by RIP, a pseudonym for Georges Gabriel Thenon who was a French singer, entertainer, and overall social influencer. The drink also begs for experimentation with different bitter aperitifs, like St. Campari ½ oz.

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VinePair

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Nobody knows this hidden gem-studded landscape quite like the pros, so we asked 14 bartenders to name their favorite underrated gems. Afzal Kaba, bartender, Musaafer , Houston “ Lion’s Tail. It’s perfect for the fall season with a nice balance of sweetness and bitterness.” I’m a huge fan of this one!

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VinePair

AUGUST 22, 2024

To bridge the gap, we asked bartenders to recommend their favorite bottles for bourbon beginners. Some bartenders mentioned bottles that are slightly lower in alcohol to soften the spirituous burn the category is known for, while others chose their picks because they’re ubiquitous and accessible.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

For inspiration, we asked bartenders and beverage professionals from across the country for their most underrated winter cocktails. You can make a delicious variation of an Old Fashioned using rum, spices, and Jamaican bitters.” Bitters and liquor can raise the temperature just as much as a glass of hot water and whiskey.”

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Chilled Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

and Dale DeGroff, the James Beard award-winning father of mixology who reinvented the bartending profession. The distillation of medicinal liqueurs, emergence of punch and bitters, and commercialization of vermouth followed from 1500 CE to 1796 CE. The pair discussed the history of the American cocktail and how major U.S.

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A Bar Above

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Tiki Cocktail Book & Tiki Glasses Surprise your closest friends who are standing by you on your wedding day with some really cool cocktail recipes. Pair a set of hurricane glasses or tiki mugs with a tropical cocktail book for your own customized, fun gift box. Photo by Gianluca Riccio via www.unsplash.com 1.

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A Bar Above

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

No matter if you’re buying for cocktail lovers, professional bartenders, or cocktail novices, here’s our list of top gifts that are sure to please everyone. GIFTS FOR THE COCKTAIL EXPERT Copyright A Bar Above A BAR ABOVE 14-PIECE COCKTAIL SET Nope, this isn’t a mistake… What’s good for the novice is good for the professional bartender!

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A Bar Above

DECEMBER 21, 2023

DIY mocktail books abound, such as the famed Aviary Restaurant’s Zero, A New Approach to Non-Alcoholic Drinks. Who – Do they abstain from alcohol entirely, or can you use dashes of bitters , which will add a tiny amount of alcohol while upping the flavor profile? These books helped me to understand flavor pairing.

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Chilled Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2024

I also enjoy relaxing with a good book, especially ones about the history of spirits and mixology.” It’s a place where you can really see the artistry of bartending come to life.” I have an array of bitters, syrups, and fresh ingredients for both classic and experimental cocktails. ” Any favorite bars?

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The Cocktail Lovers

JANUARY 25, 2024

We head over to New York to catch up with one of our absolute favourite bartenders/owners/humans, the one, the only Steve Schneider, talking about his latest venture, Sip & Guzzle. But before we hear from Steve, we’re doing the usual: opening up bottles, dipping into a book and heading off to a cocktail bar to sample its goodies.

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Steve the Bartender

AUGUST 6, 2024

Print Queen’s Park Hotel Super Cocktail This cocktail was first seen in Owen Rutter's book If Crab No Walk: A Traveller in the West Indies from 1932. Owen shared his experience of the Queen's Park Hotel in Port of Spain, Trinidad. He seemed to have taken a liking to the Super Cocktail (and so have I).

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Cocktails with Suderman

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The Toronto is an Old Fashioned dating back to the first part of the 20th century laced with bitter, minty Fernet-Branca. Cocktails With Suderman is the home bartender’s guide, with tips, tricks, techniques, theories, anecdotes, opinions, and recipes. book, Welcome Home. So many recipes!

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Australian Bartender

JULY 17, 2024

This is the entire list of finalists for the 23rd Annual Bartender Magazine Australian Bar Awards, as voted by you, the bar industry of Australia. The Bar Awards Finally, they are all here. Tickets are exclusively available for sponsors and the bar trade.

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Australian Bartender

JUNE 24, 2024

The story which I had always heard was one made famous by Stanley Clisby Arthur, author of 1937 book ‘Famous New Orleans Drinks and How to Mix ‘Em’. He said that Antoine Peychaud, a New Orleans pharmacist, liked to serve and drink his eponymous bitters mixed with cognac in little cups (called coquetiers).

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VinePair

AUGUST 16, 2024

This is especially true for traditional, spirit-forward ones like the Old Fashioned, which blends whiskey, bitters, and sugar to create a full-bodied flavor that’s meant to be sipped and savored. This mixture of base spirit, bitters, and sugar became wildly popular, prompting bartenders to create new versions with varied ingredients.

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Cocktails with Suderman

OCTOBER 11, 2024

After all, the fundamental template— spirit, sugar, bitters —is so flexible that almost everything can be an Old Fashioned. It’s essentially a rye whiskey Old Fashioned but with some bitter, herbal, peppermint-tinged Fernet-Branca. For the next several weeks, we are going to make Old Fashioneds. So many recipes!

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Chilled Magazine

AUGUST 28, 2024

And, if there’s one thing I’ve learned from his vivid depictions of Paris in books like A Moveable Feast and The Sun Also Rises, the writer knew how to throw a few back. The bartender takes a slender martini glass with a lime green bottom and fills it with ice. Chartreuse, and lime bitters.

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Cocktails with Suderman

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

But then you’d look and see that there were, in fact, quite a few “steamy independent movies based on books” or “visually striking gory crime movies.” Cocktails With Suderman is the home bartender’s guide, with tips, tricks, techniques, theories, anecdotes, opinions, and recipes. So many recipes!

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Cocktails with Suderman

MARCH 15, 2024

The Cooper Union was created by one of this newsletter’s heroes, bartender Phil Ward, during the early days of Death & Co. Germain elderflower liqueur, and orange bitters, laced a rinse of boisterous Scotch. Cooper Union 1 dash orange bitters ½ ounce St. So many recipes! So for this year’s St.

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VinePair

JANUARY 25, 2024

As the author of books on amaro , bitters , and a writer who frequently chronicles Italian drinking culture , I’ve had the chance to try countless bottles of amaro over the years and I’m always curious, and often skeptical, of a new release, especially one from Trader Joe’s. ”) on the blue neckband label.

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Cocktails with Suderman

JUNE 14, 2024

In the Bartender’s Choice app, the excellent searchable cocktail recipe database from Attaboy founder Sam Ross, there’s a short note attached to a drink called “Too Soon? Although the bartenders only serve drinks that were vetted and approved in advance, customers do not order a specific drink from a published list.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 1, 2024

of Elijah Craig, a quarter of an ounce of simple syrup and a few dashes of aromatic bitters. It’s a celebration of and a nod to the bartenders, barbacks, mixologists, runners, bussers, cooks, and many more service workers who make the industry what it is. Bartenders can enter now through November 1st.

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The Cocktail Lovers

APRIL 25, 2024

& sampling a whisky, an armagnac, visiting Wacky Wombat and learning how to taste from a book… Every day’s a school day here at cocktail towers – and, as ever, we’ve enjoyed our lessons on the people, places and products featured in this episode. Garnish with a twist of orange peel. Created by Phil Ward at Death & Co.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Entire books have been devoted to the subject. Nevertheless, it’s a liquid universally beloved by bartenders and feverishly embraced by a wide swath of American whiskey aficionados. I was first introduced to Mellow Corn around 2010 by a fellow bartender,” recalls Anu Apte of Rob Roy in Seattle. “At

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VinePair

APRIL 12, 2024

With a build of bourbon, crème de cassis, lemon juice, simple syrup, and bitters, this modern classic bridges the gap between a Whiskey Sour and a Bramble for a cocktail that’s ready-made for spring sipping. While first officially documented by bartender Jerry Thomas (a.k.a. Elizabeth’s is our go-to brand).

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VinePair

JANUARY 17, 2024

By the time Booker and Dax closed in 2016, I was the head bartender, and I spent the next year at the NoMad learning to make a lot of very good drinks very quickly. Dave Arnold and Don Lee then opened Existing Conditions in 2018, and I will eternally be grateful that they saw fit to bring me on as head bartender.

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Dry Atlas

JULY 17, 2024

and was one of the nation’s top bartenders. He published his first book, Spirits, Sugar, Water, Bitters: How the Cocktail Conquered the World, in 2019, and was named 2020 “Author of the Year” at the Nightclub & Bar Show Awards. Derek is also a celebrated author.

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The Cocktail Lovers

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The book we’re championing is Welcome Home from the bright minds at Death & Co, New York – highly recommended for bartenders and home-tenders alike and we head over to the heart of Soho to drop into the recently- opened Atelier Coupette, a creative hub with an alternative take on exploring cocktails. Garnish with the star anise.

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Australian Bartender

JUNE 19, 2024

The liqueur’s sweetness is balanced by a slight bitterness, offering a complex and well-rounded palate. This versatility allows bartenders to experiment and create unique, memorable drinks. Additional layers of caramel and a whisper of spice create a warm, velvety finish, making Disaronno a versatile ingredient in cocktails.

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The Cocktail Lovers

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When and why did bartending come into your life? Rather fortuitously, at the time I got hired, they also needed a bartender – so I was handed a book of recipes and got on with learning them. My first ever bar initiative presented to the team at Bartender Atlas was a rum and hibiscus drink, and hibiscus is a type of sorrel.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

One of the most difficult concepts for new bartenders to grasp is balance. The ability to manage the delicate interplay between spirit, sweet, sour, bitter, and dilution separates great bartenders and mixologists from amateurs. I don’t necessarily want to be influenced by what other people are doing.

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