VinePair

DECEMBER 10, 2023

But we’re also keen on sharing the knowledge that makes their contents special, and that’s where the best new drinks books come in. Here are some of the best drinks books to gift in 2023. Gin A Tasting Course: A Flavor-focused Approach to the World of Gin Anthony Gladman, DK, September 2023.

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Chilled Magazine

JULY 9, 2024

“Baijiu is the world’s most popular distilled spirit by both value and volume, so any spirits education that doesn’t include it is woefully incomplete—and a lot less fun,” says Derek Sandhaus, co-founder of Ming River and author of two books about baijiu, including most recent, Drunk in China.

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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.” It’s well-stocked with a variety of high-quality spirits, including gin, whiskey, tequila, and rum. ” Any favorite bars?

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VinePair

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Until fairly recently, gin was considered an “old person’s drink” here in the U.S. The Covid-19 pandemic and its stay-at-home order only accelerated gin’s journey from professional back bars onto home bar carts nationwide, with volume sales swelling by 2.5 last year, gin continues to battle it out on American soil. in July 2017.

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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. INSPIRED FLAVORS: COCKTAIL BOOKS THAT EXPLAIN FLAVOR PROFILES Aristotle said, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” These books helped me to understand flavor pairing. I started with gin.

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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. Michael Nauer, beverage director, Homemakers Bar and 50/50 Gin Club , Cincinnati “The Jack Rose. It’s a classic cocktail which most consider to be the reason we have modern Gin Martinis.

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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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The Cocktail Lovers

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Carb loading on Giorgio Bargiani’s Martini sauce pizza, checking out The Cultural Exchange Series at Viajante87 and stocking up on the new Compass Box Hedonism just a few of the things we’re looking forward to in the coming week NEW TASTES The only thing better than a gin Martini with a pizza is a pizza with a Gin Martini Sauce topping.

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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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The Cocktail Lovers

MARCH 28, 2024

Plus a whole heap of bar, book and product goodness… Our inaugural episode of the season is pretty damned special, it’s the first one where you can watch as well as llisten in to our featured interviewee. Strain into a chilled Nick and Nora glass and garnish with a lime wheel.

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Cocktails with Suderman

JANUARY 29, 2025

Do you have a question about cocktails, bars, booze, home bartending, or something else related to the topics discussed in this newsletter? Something similar happened with cocktails: A handful of really good bars, bartenders, and drinks enthusiasts showed the world just how good a mixed drink could be.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Her acclaimed, James Beard Award-winning cookbook, “Jubilee” (2019) started a conversation about African American culinary history, and her new cocktail book, “ Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs, and Juice ,” continues this journey through the lens of drinks and the Black bartenders who have helped pave the nation’s cocktail culture.

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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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VinePair

JANUARY 12, 2024

Like the Fog Cutter , Polynesian Spell, and Singapore Sling , the Saturn is a tiki classic made with gin. In a drinks genre more or less dominated by rum cocktails, gin plays a close second to the molasses and cane-based spirit, providing an unlikely but perfect botanical companion to any cast of fruit juices and syrups thrown its way.

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A Bar Above

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Monday : With whiskey and gin alternatives, you can recreate many classic cocktails with Monday’s non-alcoholic spirits. Amass : Although they are known for their alcoholic spirits, Amass also makes a zero-proof spirit using gin botanicals– although they say not to expect a gin proxy, per se. Garnish with a lemon wheel.

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VinePair

JULY 25, 2024

After placing a footed glass filled with frothy, pink liquid atop a thick marble bar, the bartender gently pours something glittery and purple over my drink from a tiny pitcher. To become a bartender at Fridays back then, employees had to commit over 400 cocktail recipes to memory and pass a comprehensive written exam.

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Cocktails with Suderman

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

It’s an equal parts drink made with ingredients that just about every bar that can keep its doors open has on hand: gin, sweet vermouth, Campari. Cocktails With Suderman is the home bartender’s guide, with tips, tricks, techniques, anecdotes, opinions, and recipes. This is about as easy as home bartending gets.

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Cocktails with Suderman

MAY 24, 2024

When internet nerds and bartenders started to rework and rethink old drinks around the turn of the century, little attention was paid attention to the two-ingredient stalwarts of the corner bar that, after reading Michael Ruhlman’s excellent Book of Cocktail Ratios , I have come to think of as “and” drinks.

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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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VinePair

APRIL 12, 2024

The drink’s inventor, bartender Jeffrey Morgenthaler, suggests using fresh currants to garnish this one, but a lemon wheel makes an acceptable substitute if you’ve missed out on this year’s crop. There’s the gin -based Old Maid, the vodka -based Polish Maid, the tequila -led Mexican Maid, and the Irish Maid with Irish whiskey and St-Germain.

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The Cocktail Lovers

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

We like to think of it as a pHD in the art of Japanese bartending. More than a cursory nod in the direction of what is probably the most revered bartending styles in the world, this particular platform is devised to go deeper, offering those who are participating in the programme practical advice in all aspects of Japanese culture.

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Cocktails with Suderman

MAY 10, 2024

But it works surprisingly well into Martini - or Martinez -esque drinks, adding an herbal-sweet undertone to the core gin/vermouth combo. Bookish cocktail enthusiasts know these drinks reasonably well: They all have entries in modern recipe books and online cocktail guides. They are not obscure, exactly. So many recipes!

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Casual Mixologist

DECEMBER 14, 2024

View Product Here An Informative Bar Towel Whoever said life couldnt be an open-book test clearly didnt have the right taste in towels for the aspiring mixologist. A thoughtful gift for home bartenders or anyone who loves hosting with style and flavor. No one wants to drink a flat gin and tonic, rum and cola, or whiskey and ginger.

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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. Credit: Jeff Brown “I haven’t really read a cookbook or a cocktail book for a long time,” he says. “I

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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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Bar Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Their team of experienced bartenders and mixologists concoct a selection of cocktail specials each month alongside their main menu of signature serves & classics, and the most romantic month of the year is no exception! Book a table at the bar online in advance or walk straight in! CUPIDS BOW 12.50

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The Cocktail Lovers

MAY 7, 2024

We’re flying nine bartenders over to launch the full menu, so from that aspect, it’s similar to last year as we’re not just doing a guest shift or a small takeover with four or five drinks. We’ll be sending one of our lab guys over to Rome along with another bartender four or five days before. We’ll be taking over the entire venue.

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The Whiskey Wash

JULY 21, 2024

The first written recipe for a Sour cocktail dates back to 1862 in The Bartender’s Guide by Jerry Thomas. In this book, Thomas states the recipes for a Brandy Sour and a Gin Sour. One such variation was the addition of a red wine float, for which an unnamed bartender in Chicago claimed credit in 1883.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 16, 2024

There’s nothing wrong with someone ordering the drink that makes them happy at a bar, and on a busy night a Vodka Soda can be a godsend to a weeded bartender in a busy service well. One such bartender, pushing the boundaries in a market not known traditionally as a cocktail hub, is Miles Macquarrie of Kimball House in Decatur, Ga.

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VinePair

AUGUST 28, 2024

The New York-based food scientist, bartender, and technologist pioneered techniques like centrifuge clarification, force carbonation, rapid infusion, liquid nitrogen chilling, and nitro-muddling, just to name a few. I’m biased, of course, because I was head bartender at both bars. It just takes a bit more time.

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VinePair

MARCH 8, 2024

The stocks of these bottles are ever-dwindling, but that hasn’t stopped bartenders from looking beyond the neat pour and incorporating these spirits into “vintage” cocktails. For many, tracking down these liquid time capsules is merely a hobby. For others, they’ve become a means of expanding their bar programs. Tune in for more.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 1, 2023

There, he reconnected with a colleague who had saved the Luxardo recipe book, and used these limited resources to rebuild and reestablish the distillery in the small city of Torreglia in 1946. In 2004, Luxardo became a major player in the growing craft cocktail movement thanks to bartenders at NYC’s famed Pegu Club.

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The Cocktail Lovers

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

While beautifully reimagining what a premium pink gin can be is Shivering Mountain. Talking with Alex Kratena Welcome to our very special guest, multi award-winning bartender Alex Kratena , co-founder of Tayer + Elementary Opening up… Welcome Home from Death & Co.

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Australian Bartender

DECEMBER 3, 2023

At the heart of the venue is a show-stopping pine bar top carved from 300-year-old reclaimed shrine wood that snakes through the main room with no barriers, inviting guests to pull up right next to bartenders. “I CORRECTION: In the print edition of Australian Bartender magazine, it was stated that Holly is from Australia.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 13, 2023

acquired two unique Coffey stills from Scotland, and has since honored their use with a line of fine whisky, gin , and vodka. Bombay Sapphire Premier Cru Bombay Sapphire played a large role in taking London Dry gin mainstream by dialing down the juniper and amping up clean, fresh botanicals through vapor infusion.

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The Cocktail Lovers

MARCH 28, 2024

Plus a whole heap of bar, book and product goodness… Our inaugural episode of the season is pretty damned special, it’s the first one where you can watch as well as llisten in to our featured interviewee. Strain into a chilled Nick and Nora glass and garnish with a lime wheel.

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Cocktails with Suderman

AUGUST 30, 2024

Two of the easiest, tastiest in the cocktail canon are the Gin & Tonic and the Negroni. Cocktails With Suderman is the home bartender’s guide, with tips, tricks, techniques, anecdotes, opinions, and recipes. — bookends the summer, a nod back to the Gin & Tonic we started with. Garnish with an orange peel.

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