VinePair

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

If you’ve ever wondered how a famous cocktail’s ingredient list came to be, it’s worth taking a look at when it was made. Almost any pre-Prohibition cocktail’s original specs mostly hover around the three-to-four-ingredient range. Creating a three-ingredient cocktail that makes it into the canon is the dream.” —Jon

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Bartending Bartender Tiki Cocktail Culture 105

Chilled Magazine

MARCH 3, 2024

When distilled true to tradition, authentic absinthe embodied a beautiful spirit that made an indelible impression on art and culture, including cocktail culture. For decades, absinthe owned an authentic place in cocktail history and therefore deserves a place in modern cocktail creation. Experiment!

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Bartending Bartender Cocktail Culture Mixology 246

VinePair

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

A speakeasy, by definition, implies illegality. Yet neither term is used with strict adherence to its definition. It was the modern speakeasy that legal but hidden bar that carried the non-tiki torch forward when the cocktail renaissance kicked off in earnest. So what even is the speakeasy anymore? Does it even exist?

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Good Spirits News

DECEMBER 26, 2024

There are spirits and then theres spirit, and El Guapo embodies bothin no small part because the leader of the brand, Christa Cotton, came of age in a craft cocktail culture ripe with creativity. Quite festive and a great bitters for whiskies, anjeo tequilas, dark rums and tiki inspired cocktails. Really well done.

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Bitters Tiki Rum Tequila 96