Barina Craft

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Two French Connection Cocktails Brandy About The French Connection cocktail pairs amaretto with brandy and drink recipes call for Cognac rather than Armagnac. Even though both of these brandies are connected to regions in France, Armagnac is rarely specified in cocktails (the D'Artagnan is an example of one that does).

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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. For one, like other grape-based brandies, Pisco has a season. It’s clear.

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VinePair

JANUARY 9, 2024

However, anyone may visit and sample the drinks found inside its thick book of a menu, which is firmly rooted in international classics, both old ( Martinez , Sherry Cobbler ) and new ( Penicillin , Paper Plane ). Each drink is accompanied by a story connecting the drink to a personal experience of one of the bartenders.

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SevenRooms

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Have your bartender make how-to videos on TikTok that feature a special holiday drink recipe. You can also add special offers and upgrades during the online booking process to drive prepaid revenue. Promote Direct Booking on Social Social media is one of the most effective ways to drive business to your restaurant.

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Barina Craft

JUNE 9, 2023

While none of this matters at home when you already have a favorite, if you do go out to a bar to try a Purple People Eater cocktail before stocking up your personal pub , you’ll have to tell the bartender exactly what you want. Otherwise, like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get.

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Cocktails with Suderman

APRIL 19, 2024

Both of these questions could be the sole subject of long newsletters — and the party question would take me multiple entries, and possibly a book, to fully answer. Cocktails With Suderman is the home bartender’s guide, with tips, tricks, techniques, anecdotes, opinions, and recipes. So many recipes! That’s the ideal.

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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. Shaken apple brandy, good pomegranate grenadine, and lemon. Apple brandy can be underwhelming on its own, but in a Jack Rose it screams, um… apple!

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Imbibe Magazine

APRIL 8, 2025

Prior to World War I, a shake might be made with brandy, gin, or another ardent spirit. Retired TGI Fridays bartender Jim Mancini describes the shape of the drink at the precise moment everything comes together in a blender: Its done when the top looks like a perfect babys butt. Yet these were still just milk drinks. Adam Ried concurs.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Byron published The Modern Bartenders Guide, which lists the Martinez as a gin-based Manhattan riff. Four years later, the second edition of Harry Johnsons Bartenders Manual included the first-ever written mention of a Martini Cocktail. According to drinks historian David Wondrichs 2007 book Imbibe! In 1884, O.H.

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VinePair

JUNE 6, 2024

Owner Harry McElhone credits the drink to American writer Erskine Gwynne in his 1927 book “ Barflies and Cocktails ,” but fails to mention how it’s served. This is why Christina Ramirez, head of mixology at the Westin New Orleans and formerly the first female bartender at Latitude 29 , joins the “rocks” team.

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Cocktails with Suderman

DECEMBER 29, 2023

So after some experimentation, I settled on a simple mulled wine, with honey, brandy, citrus, and spices. Cocktails With Suderman is the home bartender’s guide, with tips, tricks, techniques, anecdotes, and recipes. I’ve read Kevin Zraly’s Windows on the World wine book. So many recipes! In the Death & Co.

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Tales of the Cocktail

JULY 25, 2024

Held during Tales of the Cocktail, NOSC showcased a live judging across all of its spirits categories, both domestic and international, including whiskey, gin, brandy, baijiu, vodka, rum, agave spirits, liqueurs and non-alcoholic. More than 439 registrants entered the competition, which were reviewed by a panel of industry professionals.

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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. Cocktails With Suderman is the home bartender’s guide, with tips, tricks, techniques, anecdotes, opinions, and recipes. So many recipes! Become a paid subscriber, and never miss a drink.

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Cocktails with Suderman

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The Improved Brandy Cocktail , from the same era, does the same but for a brandy Old Fashioned. Cocktails With Suderman is the home bartender’s guide, with tips, tricks, techniques, theories, anecdotes, opinions, and recipes. book, Welcome Home. It’s one of the simplest drinks in the book, and one of the best.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 11, 2023

There, in the 1990s, bartender Julio Bermejo originally made the swap from orange liqueur to agave nectar, and beverage pros and at-home bartenders have been loving the fresh take on the drink ever since. Legend has it that Ramos had to hire “shaker boys” to assist the bartenders with the bicep-straining shaking.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 5, 2023

A 160-Year Heritage “Only after working in London was Jerry Thomas inspired to write ‘The Bartender’s Guide,’ the first book to contain cocktail recipes,” explains Jared Brown, cocktail historian and master distiller at Sipsmith Gin. “He He included many recipes he discovered while here.”

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By the 1880s, phylloxera had wreaked havoc on wine, brandy , and Cognac production, so Scotch was poised for a boom. He passed away in 1857, and left the business to his son Alexander. Alexander continued to expand the business, which brings us to 1908 when his two sons made the name Johnnie Walker a registered trademark.

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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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VinePair

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Although this story sounds promising initially, writer William Grimes notes in his book Straight Up or On the Rocks: The Story of the American Cocktail that Flanagan was actually a fictional character. As Wondrich writes in his 2007 book Imbibe! Thats right.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

It is perhaps the boldest booze move the city’s drinking landscape has seen since Joe Heron decided to open brandy distillery Copper & Kings a decade ago. Credit: Le Veau d’Or In Chicago, the vaunted Meadowlark is featuring two Scotch drinks on its new school-themed “Composition Book” menu. Scotch can be a polarizing flavor.

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VinePair

MARCH 25, 2025

1939 book The Gentlemans Companion. While the recipe featured in Bakers book originally called for cherry brandy, most versions of the drink now call for Cherry Heering for its sweeter profile.

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Cocktails with Suderman

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Do you have a question about cocktails, bars, booze, home bartending, or something else related to the topics discussed in this newsletter? Both vermouth and port are fortified wines, which means that during the production process they’ve been bolstered with some sort of distilled spirit, such as grape brandy. So many recipes!

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Cocktails with Suderman

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In his 1940s cocktail manual, The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks , he noted that the drink usually consisted of cream, crème de cacao, and crème de menthe, but sometimes blackberry brandy was added to the mix. As essential as his book remains, the majority of his recipes require restructuring to balance. So many recipes!

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Barina Craft

MARCH 24, 2025

Scotch The Godfather Cocktail Onto Your List Of After Dinner Drinks The Godfather is an official International Bartender’s Association cocktail. By the way, the French Connection is a book (1969), a movie (1971) and a drink mixed with Amaretto and France’s cognac. Zorba - Greek brandy wine and amaretto.

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The Cocktail Lovers

JANUARY 24, 2025

And if at the end of your alcohol-free month you want ideas and drinks suggestions on how to keep the virtuous vibes going, book up for one of the daily Tailored Tasting sessions at Club Soda. Our usual order is a Martini but this is the perfect excuse to try The Brandy Alexander.

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VinePair

MARCH 17, 2025

As more bartenders develop a taste for the nutty, oxidative wine, were seeing it pop up as an ingredient on more cocktail menus. But it wasnt until the Sherry Cobbler was mentioned in the 1844 Charles Dickens book The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit that the drink really took off and cemented itself in popular culture.

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VinePair

MARCH 3, 2025

Iberian brandy and Spanish-influenced rum producers like Guatemala’s Zacapa have leveraged it both as a production tool and key marketing message for decades, while whiskies from Scotland continue to employ some form of the system for certain products. with the launch of its solera-inspired Little Book: The Infinite bottling.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Transcontinental Rum Line High Seas Bartenders with a keen interest in tropical and tiki drinks often follow the lead of the late Don the Beachcomber, opting to mix three rums as the base of a cocktail rather than employing just one. Bottled at a cask strength 60.8 Feel free to proof it to your preference, though.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Let’s face it: Brandy isn’t exactly hot right now. But when it comes down to it, brandy is just distilled wine made from grapes, apples, pears, and the like. Pisco, found in Peru and Chile, is unaged brandy made from grapes, so it’s clearer in color compared to aged versions.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

A cocktail book is the smartest holiday gift. That’s because you can find a book to complement the niche personality of practically anyone on your shopping list without breaking the bank. A book is light enough to squeeze in your suitcase if you’re traveling this season. It’s easy to wrap. Price: $16.07 Price: $16.07

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VinePair

DECEMBER 2, 2024

“The Savoy Cocktail Book” is one of the most important tomes in the world of cocktail literature. Published in 1930, the book was compiled by bartender Harry Craddock, who served as the head bartender at the Savoy Hotel’s American Bar in London for over a decade. Read ‘em and weep. We’ll never know. Butter pecan?

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Drinkhacker

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

If youre a fan of pre-Prohibition cocktails, youll see a vast number of recipes that contain either brandy or Cognac. Before whiskey became the common base spirit, people often made their Old Fashioneds with brandy. Cognac is a type of brandy, but not all brandy is Cognac. I think we are missing out, though.

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Barina Craft

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

So within the bartender and mixology scene, I mean you’re an extremely famous guy, your cocktails extremely famous globally, but for those that don’t know you and know that you’re the inventor of it tell us a bit more about you, where it came from, what was it called and the reason behind the events in it. I really love it.

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Bartender.com

APRIL 10, 2025

Build a Stylish Home Bar With Must-Have Tools Want to impress guests with your bartending skills at home? Bartenders often start with a sturdy mixing glass, a long-handled bar spoon, and a reliable cocktail shaker. Bartenders recommend investing in durable, clear glasses that showcase the drink’s color and garnishes.

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Cocktails with Suderman

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Fortunately, you’re a home bartender. But the one we’re going to make today comes from Harry Craddock’s 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book , though we’ll make some modifications to his spec. That’s what happens when Valentine’s Day is on a Friday. You can make great cocktails at home. So many recipes!

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Mixologists

JANUARY 16, 2025

What to Order: Tell the bartender your preferred spirits and flavor profiles for a bespoke creation. Expert mixologists create personalized drinks based on your taste preferences, making each visit unique.

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Mixologists

JANUARY 16, 2025

What to Order: Tell the bartender your preferred spirits and flavor profiles for a bespoke creation. Expert mixologists create personalized drinks based on your taste preferences, making each visit unique. Brooklyn's Best Cocktail Bars 7.

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