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Inside Look: The Aladdin Sane, Detroit

Imbibe Magazine

The cocktail bar, an Imbibe 75 Place to Watch , is tucked beneath the restored, 1920s-era Book Tower in downtown Detroit. Sip on the Sake & Strange Divine, a Martini-style sake-based drink made with gin, rice whiskey, sushi rice, shiso, and garnished with caviar. Stokes Architecture + Design and hospitality group Method Co.

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4 of the Strongest Cocktails You Can Order at a Bar

VinePair

Rather than ordering a classic like a Gin & Tonic or Old Fashioned and asking the bartender to make it strong , there are a few particularly powerful cocktails that pack a punch all on their own. Then, four ounces of ice-cold gin is poured directly into the glass, making the drink essentially straight gin.

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Even the Great Martini Revival Can’t Save Vermouth

VinePair

With vodka Martinis in particular, we get calls for no vermouth bone dry or dry. For gin Martinis its rarer to get calls for no vermouth, but it is almost always dry or extra dry. Typically, vodka Martini drinkers skew dry; they might not be considered Martini drinkers as much as vodka drinkers.) It was a free-for-all.

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14 things we discovered at Flauer Alassio 2025

The Cocktail Lovers

Begonias make an extraordinary gin At their edible flower workshop we met Sylvia Barodi and Marco Rivera, founders of tastee.it. Better still they have turned their attention to producing a gin as Sylvia explained. Then Marco, my husband, wanted to try putting our begonias into a gin. A very floral gin Be!Gin

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Announcing the 2024 Chilled 100 Spirits Awards Judges—Don’t Miss Out on Early Bird Rates—Enter Now!

Chilled Magazine

De’Qustay Johnson Expertise: Whiskey, Vodka, Tequila, Rum, Wine. William Santiago Orlando, Florida Expertise: Tequila, Mezcal, Rum, Gin. Garvey Alexander New York City, New York Expertise: Vodka and Bourbon. Comes from a family of agaveros from Tepa Jalisco. Elizabeth Lang Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Expertise: Rum. Sarah Karl St.

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Two gins, sake cocktails and Giulia Cuccurullo– new podcast!

The Cocktail Lovers

It’s World Gin Day on 8th June, so what better reason to crack open not one, but two bottles of tasty gins? Our first is Citadelle Rouge from France, the other is Garden Swift, a deliciously crafted gin lovingly made in the Cotswolds. The post Two gins, sake cocktails and Giulia Cuccurullo– new podcast!

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Bartenders, Celebrate National Absinthe Day with T.A. Breaux, Research Scientist, Creator of LUCID and Jade Absinthes

Chilled Magazine

Like the events which gave gin the nickname “mother’s ruin” in the mid-1700s London, absinthe’s reputation was tarnished by unscrupulous profiteers who made cheap, adulterated, and dangerous imitations, marketed primarily to poor alcoholics. The original “Savoy Cocktail Book” (1930) includes dozens of cocktails that call for absinthe.

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