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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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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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Employees Only Turns 20: An Oral History of the Iconic NYC Speakeasy

VinePair

There were some cocktails that were being seen all over the city such as the Appletini and the Cosmopolitan. Of course, there was a really great underground scene of cocktail culture. It felt like the cocktail industry was on the verge of something transformative. I didn’t want to take part in any of that.

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The Cocktail Revolution Has Finally Reached New York’s Great Cultural Institutions

VinePair

Finding a good craft cocktail on the Upper West Side of Manhattan can be a challenge. If you go for modern classic cocktails, they have a Tommy’s Margarita and a Reverend Palmer, an old standby from PDT, the East Village icon. Lincoln Center isn’t the only city institution where cocktail culture is suddenly flourishing.

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We Asked 18 Bartenders: What’s the Trendiest Shot to Order Right Now? (2025)

VinePair

With increasing awareness of Korean drinking culture, fueled by musical artists like Ros and her catchy collaboration with Bruno Mars, APT, more people are embracing the fun ways Koreans enjoy their drinks. The soju bomb, or poktanju in Korean, involves dropping a shot of soju into a short pour of beer.”

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Functional Cocktails: The Biggest Drink Trend to Try

Mixologists

The Rise of Functional Cocktail Culture The functional cocktail movement is not merely a passing fad, but rather a fundamental shift in how we approach alcohol consumption.