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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. Put a twist on a classic cocktail.

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Flavor Manipulation Course Series: Cocktail Bitters, Infusions, & Simple Syrups

A Bar Above

From understanding the basics to exploring more diverse sweeteners, this course helps you enhance your cocktail creations and overall cocktail mixology skills in the simplest of ways, so to speak. Explore creative flavor combinations, timing, advanced techniques, and the use of complex ingredients.

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Father’s Day Gift Guide

A Bar Above

Throw in a bottle of his favorite liquor and a bar mat for a non-slip surface, a jar of cocktail cherries for garnish, or a cocktail smoker kit, and you have a complete gift! We just launched this Old Fashioned cocktail kit gift box , but you still have plenty of time to receive it before the big day if you order now.

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Wedding Party Gift Guide

A Bar Above

Photo by Egor Myznik via www.unsplash Infusing Barrels or DIY Infused Liquor This barrel is a really luxurious cocktail gift! If liquor isn’t your think, try your hand at infusing vanilla extract. Then you can invite yourself over for a craft cocktail once they’ve mastered it… Win-win!

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Bar Cart Essentials: Create a Stylish Home Bar Setup

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Start with the "holy trinity" of base liquors: vodka, gin, and rum. For vodka, consider Grey Goose for its smooth finish. Mixing and Serving: Must-Have Bar Tools and Equipment (Professional Grade) Crafting cocktails requires the right tools. Then, add tequila and whiskey. Quality over quantity is crucial.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Making Gin at Home

A Bar Above

Of course, you could get complicated and use a still pot or mini-distillery, but… It’s actually illegal to distill your own liquor without a license, even just for personal use. Instead, we’re focusing on our very own bathtub gin ; honestly, it’s basically just infused vodka (not to be confused with flavored vodka).

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Brandy and Cognac Trends for 2024

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million 9-liter cases, according the Beverage Information Group 2024 Liquor Handbook. Brandy isn’t flying off the shelf via individual pours, but guests are enjoying plenty of it through cocktails, says Charles Joly, beverage director of The Riff Raff Room in New York. in 2023 to pre-Covid levels of 12.8

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