Chilled Magazine

MAY 1, 2024

The Craft Cocktail renaissance has undoubtedly seen the rebirth of an elevated standard of innovation and excellence. However, amidst this dedication to craft, one essential aspect can fade into the background: the sheer joy of the cocktail creation experience.

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A Bar Above

JANUARY 17, 2024

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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Imbibe Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The Portrait Bar in New York City is featuring an Empire State take on its Mapo District cocktail with soju, sesame oil-washed scotch, cucumber, lemon, and pineapple-vanilla cordial. The event also invites sports bars, dive bars, hotel bars, and restaurant bars—not just craft cocktail bars—outside of New York City to participate.

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Chilled Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2024

In today’s craft cocktail culture, being forward-thinking with your drink program is important. Put a twist on a classic cocktail. Implement a cocktail menu that uses different spirits, such as vodka, gin, rum, tequila, and whiskey and different flavor profiles.

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Cheers

JULY 19, 2024

So when the summer’s hottest pickleball event, the Beer City Open Pickleball Championships , returned to Grand Rapids, MI, from July 9-14, historic downtown hotel Amway Grand Plaza offered several signature pickleball-inspired craft cocktails.

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Chilled Magazine

MARCH 19, 2024

Whiskey is a key engine of this growth thanks to craft cocktail culture’s impact on the world’s bar scene and the surge in popularity of spirits from regions like Japan and Ireland, which many connoisseurs are only now discovering for the first time.

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Cheers

JULY 3, 2024

The patio pop-ups feature three new Spritzes, each priced at $12: the classic Aperol Spritz, made with the signature orange aperitivo, prosecco and Fever Tree club soda; the Day Tripper, with Espolòn Reposado tequila, orange, honey and prosecco; and the 7-10 Split, with Skyy citrus vodka, Fever Tree sparkling cucumber, pineapple and lemon.

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Chilled Magazine

APRIL 19, 2024

Community Hero: In honor of Ketel One Family Made Vodka’s mission to leave a positive impact on the world (and industry), finalists will be tasked with creating a signature vodka cocktail using an innovative bartending technique, process, initiative, or ingredient that elevates their community.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

No craft cocktail bar should ever use it. ” —Alex Jump, founder, Focus on Health “I’d love to see the end of artificially flavored vodkas. Especially in cocktail bars and lounges, as it diminishes the quality of the drinks. Plus, it just isn’t a great look.

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A Bar Above

MAY 28, 2024

Vodka connoisseurs : Grab a bottle of vodka from Loft & Bear. Photo courtesy of Macmillan/Media Lab Books (Product stock photo) THE GIFT OF KNOWLEDGE: COCKTAIL BOOKS A recipe book full of delicious cocktails just waiting to be made is the great, cheap gift for a bookworm Dad who loves stirring up his own drinks.

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The Whiskey Wash

MAY 2, 2024

Spirits competitions across the world pit the best whiskies, bourbons, tequilas, vodkas, and more against one another. Vodka is the most arduous spirit to judge correctly Good vodka is almost tasteless. We typically taste vodka in the morning after giving judges a vodka 101 refresher course.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 3, 2024

It’s part of the Spirit & Mixer, well drink, dive bar canon: Vodka & Soda. Nothing is seen as more basic — in more ways than one — than the Vodka Soda, yet Superbueno ‘s Vodka Y Soda is anything but. There’s vodka and there’s soda in there, sure, but it’s a fruity, spicy flavor bomb.

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Chilled Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2024

Bars and restaurants from all over the country have crafted cocktail recipes that honor the color and utilize a variety of ingredients to give your drink that beautiful Peach Fuzz tint. We’ve rounded up the four best Peach Fuzz cocktails for your drinking pleasure. Smirnoff Pink Lemonade 2 oz.

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Imbibe Magazine

JULY 17, 2024

But it was a nightclub mostly, so we weren’t making craft cocktails really. We were churning out vodka Red Bulls to folks lined up 10 deep at the bar. We never wanted to be one of those channels that was, like, melting Jolly Ranchers into watermelons, or dumping vodka and schnapps into a bathtub.

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A Bar Above

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Instead, we’re focusing on our very own bathtub gin ; honestly, it’s basically just infused vodka (not to be confused with flavored vodka). Making gin requires a neutral spirit (in this case, vodka as the base spirit) and juniper– the rest is up to you! 375 ml of good-quality vodka (about 12.5

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

These days, every craft cocktail bar has a house spec, if not their very own Martini riff, sometimes tweaked to the point where it no longer resembles the cocktail in its classical guise. Vodka Viability “Gin is a little less forgiving than vodka,” Tecosky says. That’s why feta is a nice balance,” Tecosky says. “It

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VinePair

MARCH 26, 2024

We’re talking about all- vodka-based Martini menus, shaking drinks that are meant to be stirred, and wine lists championing Napa Cab and Bordeaux over everything else. Meanwhile, in small but rapidly growing cities, we’re seeing craft cocktail bars take off at an unprecedented rate.

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A Bar Above

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Here are some of our favorite spirits: Equiano rum OAX mezcal Casa Noble tequila , Nikka Coffey gin Misadventure vodka Angel’s Envy bourbon Courtesy of Angel’s Envy If they appreciate good spirits, this will probably be your attendants’ favorite gift.

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Cheers

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

We were also able to discover several smaller and regional brands, including Ammunition bourbon and rye; Via Carota craft cocktails; Spritzatto aperitivo; Root Out root beer-flavored whisky; Finvara Irish whiskey; and the Profanity Life family of “Good F*cking” wines and spirits. What’s Stewart’s favorite vodka?

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VinePair

JULY 25, 2024

This isn’t a trendy craft cocktail bar with mustachioed mixologists and $30 cocktails. The cocktail, called “Under the Purple Sea,” looks much better than it tastes — somewhere between an alcohol-spiked Pacific Cooler Capri Sun and Sour Patch Kids watermelon candy. Fridays used to be the cocktail bar,” Duff says.

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A Bar Above

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Craft cocktail connoisseurs know that enjoying a cocktail is a multi-sensory experience. Your eyes see the vibrant color of the garnish, your hands feel the temperature of the glass, and your nose takes in the aromas of the cocktail, all before the grand finale of tasting the cocktail itself.

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PubClub

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Then again, it does serve four people and contans top-shelf vodka and shellfish. Called the Ultimate Bloody Mary, it is made with Belvedere vodka and garnished with freshly caught crab and oysters. At it, you can get a 32-ounce pitcher of Bloody Marys for the Del-ish price of $125. And it just happens to be National Bloody Mary Day.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 23, 2024

But those days appear to be firmly behind us, thanks to the craft cocktail revival of the early aughts, and the increasing popularity of drinks like the Martini and Negroni. Younger people have grown up in an era of far more variety in cocktail bars and restaurants than generations past, and that’s led them to be more adventurous.

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Cheers

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

RTDs have taken the spotlight lately, particularly spirits-based beverages from canned Gin and Tonics and bottled Negronis to craft cocktails packaged in pouches and bags-in-a-box. Austin Cocktails and Fresca Mixed , in particular, have boosted the company’s bottom line as of late.

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Cocktail Whisperer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I’ll go to lengths to describe the way it makes me feel and especially the way it performs in craft cocktails. Whiskey cocktails? Don’t look away; it’s perfectly acceptable to mix cocktails with whiskey. By the way, if you’ve enjoyed a whiskey smash or a mint julep, you’ve had a whiskey cocktail. apple cider ½ oz.

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PubClub

JANUARY 19, 2024

This downtown aerie has an outdoor patio with downtown views and an ice bar that keeps cocktails like the “Suit & Tie” (a cherry vodka and sparkling wine concoction) and the “Rooftop Buzz” (a coffee and martini mashup). The 32 Degree Rooftop Bar at Urban Crust. Drinks and food make for happy people at Haywire restaurant.

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VinePair

MAY 13, 2024

Their top-selling drink is a Vodka Soda. The Vodka Y Soda isn’t just a two-ingredient highball; they add guava and pasilla into the mix, and the result is refreshing and intensely flavorful. They really don’t give a f*ck as long as the cocktail they order is good.” There’s a lot to unpack.

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VinePair

AUGUST 27, 2024

So, when management offered to recruit a few bar-curious servers to cover the vacant lunch shifts, I jumped at the opportunity to cut lemon and lime wedges all day in exchange for feeling like I was Tom Cruise in “Cocktail” for a few hours on a Tuesday afternoon. I could never be hired to do the same job today.

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The Bartender Company

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In recent years, professional bartenders and mixologists have experimented with new ingredients in their quest to develop thrilling and flavorful cocktails. What are nitrogen craft cocktails, and what makes a nitro beverage so special? Nitro Cocktails to Sample Why would a mixologist make nitrogen craft cocktails?

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The Whiskey Wash

MAY 31, 2024

The distillery produces small batch, artisanal gin, whiskey, and vodka with ingredients sourced from farms across the state. According to High Bank’s website: “We take the same uncompromised approach when selecting each ingredient to create every plate of food, crafted cocktail, and bottle of High Bank spirits.”

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Imbibe Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2024

Not just a concert bar experience with options like Vodka Soda. We had true craft cocktails, beers, wines, ready-to-drink cocktails—all of the things you would expect at an amazing bar. We built a full-service bar experience in the festival, with two bars on festival grounds: one in general admission and one in VIP.

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The Bartender Company

JANUARY 16, 2024

These products are designed to provide a similar sensory experience to their alcoholic counterparts and can be used as replacements in classic cocktail recipes, allowing those who do not consume alcohol to enjoy the ritual and flavors of a well-crafted cocktail. How is a Non Alcoholic Spirit Made?

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Cheers

JANUARY 23, 2024

Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants ’ annual Culinary + Cocktail Trend Forecast cites the rise of Latin American spirits and liquors such as aguariente, singani and cocuy, served within craft cocktails or enjoyed on the rocks. “I In fact, they are so confident in the savory Martini trend that AF&Co.

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Advanced Mixology

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Absinthe is making a comeback in the world of cocktails. This anise-flavored spirit has now been thrust back into the spotlight with the rising popularity of craft cocktails. It artfully blends Absinthe's botanical flavors with the smooth, dry profile of gin, vodka, and vermouth.

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Advanced Mixology

MARCH 11, 2024

Understanding the flavor profiles that complement orange juice can elevate your cocktail crafting from simple mixes to a more sophisticated blend of tastes. Vodka - Classic Mixer Think of vodka and orange juice as that reliable friend who always shows up. Whipped cream vodka blended with orange juice is your ticket.

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A Bar Above

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

-based distillery produces an award-winning bottle of vodka that has the spirits world raving. It’s buttery and vanilla-forward, a great example of “new” vodka with lots of character and– gasp!– – actual flavor (and an excellent gift or the perfect addition to your next cocktail party).

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A Bar Above

JUNE 2, 2024

Like I mentioned, the craft cocktail movement is mostly to blame for the supply shortage, but it’s a little more complicated than simple supply-and-demand. When the pandemic craziness hit in 2020 and creating great cocktails at home suddenly became all the rage, the sales of Chartreuse skyrocketed.

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