VinePair

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

After conquering low-lift highballs and easy equal-parts concoctions, most aspiring bartenders are eager to step into the big leagues and attempt more intricate cocktails. How much you slightly alter the volume of the three primary spirits — or more consequentially, the Benedictine — will result in a very different cocktail each time.”

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Bartender Bartending Bitters Bar Spoon 111

Imbibe Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Your next drink lives in the minds of the two brilliant bartenders behind the bar. Beau du Bois, award-winning bartender and Puesto’s vice president of bar and spirits, vapor-infuses tequila with habanero to retain all of the pepper’s flavor without any of the heat. It’s mixology magic.

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Mixology Infusions Tequila Bar 186

VinePair

JUNE 26, 2024

Who needs low-ABV cocktails when you have slow-ass bartenders? This question, shared as a cheeky joke in an Instagram story, became a viral moment for Erick Castro , the legendary bartender behind San Diego’s Raised By Wolves and Gilly’s House of Cocktails , and host of the award-winning Bartender at Large podcast.

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Bartender Bartending Speed Rack Simple Syrup 105

VinePair

MARCH 19, 2024

Their efforts produced a space that can be described as an upscale dive bar: an of-the-moment concept that’s meant to be a step above a sticky-floored dive offering beers and stale pretzels but a notch below a high-volume joint slinging highfalutin $20 cocktails. We as bartenders don’t really have to educate anymore.

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Bar Hospitality High Volume Beer 96

VinePair

MARCH 13, 2024

Also on offer may be a frozen cocktail or two, draft cocktails, a fat-washed cocktail, a clarified milk punch, a Boilermaker, a fancified whiskey highball, something with shochu, and a spritz. And also people are realizing that at those high-end cocktail bars, those cocktails are very, very expensive and the margins are very tight.

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Bar Molecular Mixology High Volume Tiki 124