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How Author and Historian Toni Tipton-Martin Is Immortalizing Black Cocktail Culture

VinePair

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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5 Useful Tips to Elevate your Bar Menu and Drinks Program

Chilled Magazine

In today’s craft cocktail culture, being forward-thinking with your drink program is important. For example, if you are a tiki bar, then you want your menu to reflect cocktails, liquors, beers, and flavors that match a tropical and Caribbean theme, i.e. rums and frozen drinks.

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We’re Recapping Chilled 100 ELEVATE 2024: The Second Golden Age of the American Cocktail with Dale DeGroff and Ted Breaux

Chilled Magazine

The pair discussed the history of the American cocktail and how major U.S. events helped to shape the cocktails of today. Alcoholic beverages date back to 13,000 BCE, when the first evidence of brewing beer was documented. By 1806, the word “cocktail” appeared in print. and abroad was around 1914.

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The 2024 Beer Growth Brands Award Winners

Cheers

The beer industry’s struggles have continued this past year as consumers gravitate to spirits and cocktails and ready-to-drink (RTD) beverages, more of which seem to hit the market each week. But among the people whose drink of choice is beer, what are the favorite brands today? To commemorate its 195th anniversary, D.G.

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Call for More Cheer for Beer

Spiritz

Beer business in India is underdeveloped by any reckoning.The millstone around beer’s neck in India is really the perception that it is similar to and an add-on to liquor. Also, having the same retail structure for beer and liquor is an issue. Beer is globally the most dominant form of alcoholic beverage.

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Can a Cocktail Have Too Many Ingredients? Bartenders Weigh In

VinePair

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. Creating a three-ingredient cocktail that makes it into the canon is the dream.” —Jon

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Get to Know Chilled 100 Member Kristen Begley of Woodburn Brewing and La Ofrenda in Ohio

Chilled Magazine

La Ofrenda cares about the heritage of Hispanic culture and pays fine attention to detail what we serve at the bar. We carry soda and beer from Mexico to really create the vibe and authenticity of the place. I try to substitute things like aquafaba for froth on an egg white cocktail.

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