Australian Bartender

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Hanky Panky Lounge 3/32 Mitchell St, Darwin City @hankypanky.lounge Joey Folkersma, from Darwin took out the title of Australian Bartender of the Year for 2024 during Sydney Bar Week. The competition presented by Australian Bartender magazine and sponsored by Hendrick’s Gin and Monkey Shoulder Whisky. Why do you like comps?

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

And with the modern cocktail renaissance of the late ‘90s and early aughts, everything came full-circle as bartenders breathed new life into forgotten, bare-bones classics by riffing and reimagining them with different spirits and modifiers. To find the spec sweet spot, we asked eight bartenders how many cocktail ingredients is just too many.

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Chilled Magazine

MAY 9, 2024

The Chilled 100 Bartenders celebrate creativity, heritage, and the art of mixology by crafting original cocktails made with Plymouth Gin. Fill a Highball with Kold Draft ice and strain cocktail into the glass. Add ice and vigorously shake for about 15 seconds. Add a float of 10 dashes of Angostura Bitters and garnish with a mint sprig.

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Chilled Magazine

MAY 22, 2024

Our Chilled 100 Bartenders are always in for elevating their cocktail game. Gin , Sherry Spanish Bombs by Gabriel Jaramillo Ingredients 1 1/2 oz Highclere Castle London Dry Gin 1/2 oz Fino sherry 3 oz lulo-dill soda* Dill sprig Preparation Build cocktail on chilled highball glass with ice. Give this original cocktail a mix.

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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

MARCH 4, 2025

While there are many ways to enjoy drinking shochu , bartenders are particularly captivated by the cocktail adaptability of the diverse spirit. Acclaimed bartenders Julia Momose (of Kumiko )andChristian Suzuki-Orellana (formerly of Wildhawk ) helped guide guests on how to best enjoy the spirit in different applications.

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VinePair

MARCH 18, 2025

Nobody knows these differences better than bartenders committed to whipping up the best drinks possible for guests, even if that drink is a humble Vodka Soda. Its semi-savory quality led us at Pitts to pairing it with sumac in a highball, but our house Cosmo recipe uses a hefty pour of the vodka as the base. We love it.

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Chilled Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Big Apple, as the city is ironically nicknamed, is seeing a renaissance of classic cocktails like whiskey sours, martinis, and highballs. Other NYC spots have also added creative drinks spotlighting the apple to their menu, like Foxtail’s Honey Baked Apples, Lindens Apple Shiso Highball, and Altair’s Roasted Apples. Lemon Juice.5

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VinePair

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Highballs have long been tethered to the realm of dive bars. Given their easy composition, highballs traditionally fall into the category of drinks that one can easily recreate at home without any professional bartending experience. More often than not, they max out at two ingredients, sans the obligatory citrus wedge garnish.

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VinePair

JUNE 20, 2024

Enter: the Highball. Typically consisting of a spirit, soda, and ice, Highballs don’t require much effort, which is ideal when there’s already sweat rolling down your neck. The spirit-and-soda base provides a blank canvas for mixologists and at-home bartenders to easily create more complex libations.

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Chilled Magazine

MAY 21, 2024

Strain over a highball glass and add crushed ice. The post The Chilled 100 Bartenders Celebrate Creativity by Crafting Original Cocktails Made with Plymouth Gin appeared first on Chilled Magazine. Garnish with a mint sprig and 2 buzz buttons.

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Chilled Magazine

MAY 24, 2024

Our content series, The Spirit of Travel with Dewar’s Scotch Whisky follows the essence of adventure and discovery into the craft of bartending. Bartenders are an adventurous bunch, and traveling can profoundly influence their cocktails by shaping creativity, technique, and worldview, while enriching their craft and personal journey.

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Imbibe Magazine

APRIL 29, 2024

Today, the increasing stateside appreciation for Spanish wine and Basque cuisine may be responsible for the reappearance of the Kalimotxo on menus, and bartenders are using the classic flavor combo as just the starting point.

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PUNCH

APRIL 17, 2025

Bartenders recommend five spirits, from Meletti amaro to mango brandy, for easy, two-ingredient highball cocktails this spring and summer.

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Imbibe Magazine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Grab a seat in front of the bartenders at the main bar, sip on bubbly at the sake and Champagne bar, or go in for a customized cocktail experience at its four-seat omakase bar. When guests enter the upstairs bar, the bartender asks for their name and promptly writes it on the white-tiled wall behind the bar.

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VinePair

AUGUST 28, 2024

When anyone embarks on their bartending journey, one of the first steps is usually learning how to make the classics: Old Fashioneds, Martinis, Negronis, Daiquiris, and the like. To find out which ones are the simplest to nail, we hit up 10 professional bartenders and got their input. It elevates the drink to top-tier status.”

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Australian Bartender

APRIL 3, 2025

Signature house-made sodas elevate the whisky highball menu, offering six highballs, all available in mocktail versions. Standouts include, Botanical Seltzer Highball (Roku gin, shiso, yuzu), Mixed Citrus Highball (Haku vodka, blood orange, mandarin, yuzu), Classic Whisky Highball (Suntory Toki whisky, soda, lemon).

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Imbibe Magazine

APRIL 8, 2024

The drink is a fusion of Italian aperitivo and Japanese shochu highball, just like bringing the bergamot nomad back to its origin.” The Art of ITALICUS Aperitivo Challenge invites bartenders from around the world to create an original aperitivo cocktail showcasing ITALICUS Rosolio di Bergamotto and inspired by any form of art.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

A cursory glance of various Reddit subs like r/bartenders and r/Chicago reveal some solid attempts: Notes of Fresca, paint thinner, and sadness; Week-old grapefruit rinds soaked in floodwater and shame; Gasoline filtered through a week-old garbage bag; Imagine if your parents’ divorce had a flavor. Her prize? “It

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Chilled Magazine

MARCH 13, 2024

Of all the pillars of wellness, perhaps the one that came the least naturally to me as a bartender–– and yet has the greatest impact––is sleep. Non-Alcoholic Rent is Way Too Highball Ingredients 1 oz. Grapefruit Soda Preparation Rub lime on the outside of the rim of a Highball glass. Calm Unflavored, diluted 1 oz.

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Chilled Magazine

MARCH 19, 2024

While I am not a bartender, I think color should be a factor used to indicate Spring. We recently collected these recipes from some of our favorite bartenders. Jules Theuriet Pamplemousse Liqueur Soda Water Preparation Pour Dartigalongue Un-Oaked Blanche Armagnac and Jules Theuriet Pamplemousse Liqueur into a highball glass over ice.

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VinePair

APRIL 8, 2025

Balcones head bartender Don Phet is here to help break down what this new ruling means for the industry and consumers alike, as well as show off the versatility of American Single Malts in cocktails (because no, its not just for sipping neat!). Garnish with dehydrated orange wheel, cinnamon stick, and pecan. Add ice into glassware.

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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. Andrew Boutselis, bartender, ALTAR , Brooklyn “The f*cking Blood and Sand. Here’s what they had to say. Is it skinny? With Tajín or salt?

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Advanced Mixology

JANUARY 21, 2025

This is now all changing with more and more spirits being available to bartenders and at-home cocktail enthusiasts such as Shochu, Soju and Baiju. So with such global popularity and the USAs best bartenders hooked, its only a matter of time before Asian ingredients and drinks become easier to get your hands on.

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Chilled Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The group of bartenders boarded the bus at the Brown Hotel for the short ride to La Bodeguita de Mina, a Cuban-themed restaurant. We walked up to the sidebar and took a highball glass filled with their delicious Havana Punch with the addition of a kick of Rooster Rojo Reposado Tequila. Katy welcomed the group.

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Imbibe Magazine

JULY 1, 2024

This superpower gives it incredible versatility—whether in an indulgent dessert drink or a light, unfussy highball. Pandan is strong and will stand out in cocktails, but also subtle enough that it can still let the spirit shine,” says Alex Law, lead bartender for Bar Podmore in Honolulu. “It

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Imbibe Magazine

MAY 31, 2024

Coffee Chuhi Barley shochu’s toasty, nutty notes complement coffee’s rich aromatics in this shochu highball recipe from Bar Goto Niban in Brooklyn. Izumi Pimm San Francisco bartender Aaron Plein uses sweet potato shochu to add some complexity and Japanese flare to the classic Pimm’s Cup.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Raised among the retro culture of Los Angeles and a tiki enthusiast before he was old enough to drink — he came to the culture via exotica music in high school — Richard ditched his focus on a radio career to get into bartending. The article Next Wave Awards Bartender of the Year: Garret Richard appeared first on VinePair.

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Chilled Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Tonic Water Preparation Add ice into highball or balloon glass. Tequila Aphrodite’s Arrow by Virgin Hotels NYC’s Everdene Head Bartender, Marlon Rowley Ingredients 1 1/2 oz. Gin , Liqueur French Jasmine Tonic by Chambord Liqueur Ingredients 3/4 oz. Chambord Liqueur 1 1/2 oz. Fords Gin 6 drops Jasmine Water 3 oz. Patron Silver 3/4 oz.

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Chilled Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Where most cocktail festivals celebrate local talent and bars, Arizona Cocktail Weekend champions both local and international bartenders with the Top Bars event, held on Sunday. This event is what really sets Arizona Cocktail Weekend—founded by celebrated bartender Ross Simon— apart from others. We’ve been coming here for five years.

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Chilled Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Whether you prefer your Gin & Tonic in its staple highball glass or a Spanish copa, these Italian gins will give a little more amore to your usual G&T experience. Each performs well in a classic G&T with Italian bartenders revealing their unique characters in a classic G&T. So, which is the best?

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Chilled Magazine

JULY 8, 2024

The menu, thoughtfully organized into three distinct sections – Highballs, Shaken, and Stirred – offers simplicity without sacrificing variety, ensuring there’s something to suit every palate. Drawing from his own experiences, Evan has valuable suggestions for bartenders who harbor dreams of one day opening their own bar.

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Imbibe Magazine

JULY 24, 2024

” The “Ain’t Woman Enough” is a refreshing mezcal highball referencing a Loretta Lynn song. Bartender Dillon Brown wanted to utilize as many woman-owned and made products as possible, incorporating Yola mezcal and Xila, a mezcal-based spiced liqueur. So we made a blush pink melon Martini.”

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 4, 2024

Is it a classic aperitif highball made with Campari, vermouth, and soda water? Alfredo’s Favorite At Artusi in Seattle, lead bartender Christian Nguyen uses the rosa version in the Alfredo’s Favorite. But to fully appreciate Cocchi Americano and effectively unlock its potential, it’s helpful to know what the wine is (and isn’t).

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Cheers

JANUARY 22, 2025

Strain into highball glass over fresh ice. Notes Jose Martinez, bartender at The St. Notes Jose Martinez, bartender at The St. . Kumquat juice 1 oz. Midori melon liqueur oz. Coconut liqueur Edamame foam* Instructions Add all ingredients in the shaker with ice. Shake for 10 seconds.

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Steve the Bartender

OCTOBER 29, 2023

The post Apple Highball appeared first on Steve the Bartender. A blended Japanese whisky is paired with crisp granny smith apple juice for an easy drinking combo.

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Steve the Bartender

OCTOBER 29, 2023

The post Whisky Highball appeared first on Steve the Bartender. The whisky has nowhere to hide in this drink so you want to ensure you use a good quality Japanese whisky.

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