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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

This easy mini soju cocktail uses an instant chicken soup kit to make a savory, holiday-ready shot inspired by the Korean dish samgyetang.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The Painkiller carries unusual baggage for a tropical drink created in paradise. Those issues stem from contested origin stories — something we encounter quite frequently here on “Cocktail College” — and intellectual property wars (not quite so common). What’s irrefutable, though, is just how delicious the results are when you combine rum, cream of coconut, orange, and pineapple juice.

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PUNCH

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The easy technique of adding sushi rice to the Negroni has taken on a life of its own, appearing in Martinis, nonalcoholic cocktails and more.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

With how much we hear about the idea of increased alcohol abstention, it doesn’t seem like shots should still be as popular as they are. But they are back in drinking culture indeed. The phenomenon isn’t just limited to bars. We’re seeing it take hold in restaurants, too, with shots frequently encouraged as a way to kick off or end a meal. Keep in mind, these aren’t just standard slugs of vodka , tequila , or whiskey.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Guilt-free indulgence and limited time offerings among top trends for next year MONIN, the UK’s leading syrup brand, has unveiled its top trends for 2025, in its enduring commitment to offering the hospitality industry insight, information and education. Conducting first-hand research, the MONIN team visited over 200 venues across the UK market in compiling the report, backed up by third-party industry-leading research.

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The Whiskey Wash

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Pig’s Lane , a popular underground speakeasy bar in Killarney, Ireland, has teamed up with one of the country’s most celebrated bars for a one-night-only takeover event. The team from CASK Cork , an acclaimed bar and cocktail destination, will treat Pig’s Lane guests to a night of craft cocktail experiences. The takeover will take place on Thursday, November 21st from 8 pm, with DJ Darren Kelly providing upbeat tunes to get the party started.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

With a whopping four base spirits, two types of bitters, a sweetener, and two garnishes, the Conference is a layer cake of a cocktail.

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Just Drinks

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Molson Coors Beverage Co. is shutting two breweries producing Leinenkugel’s beers in Wisconsin, it has announced.

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Bar Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Kate Nicholls, Chief Executive of UKHospitality, said: “This interest rate cut is positive news in the short-term for hospitality businesses, particularly those still struggling with pandemic debt repayments, and consumer confidence. “However, the short-term benefit of this cut is significantly overshadowed by the looming £3.4 billion worth of cost increases that will hit the sector in April.

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Just Drinks

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Chile-based drinks group Compañía Cervecerías Unidas has acquired control of a PepsiCo licence in Paraguay.

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Good Spirits News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Barrell Bourbon New Year 2025 Each fall, Barrell Craft Spirits selects the bourbons for the release intended to bring in the New Year. This 2025 bottling features bourbons from the following states: Kentucky (5, 6, & 9 years-old), Indiana (5, 6, 7, 11, & 12 years-old), Tennessee (8, 9, & 15 years-old), Wyoming (9 & 12 years-old), New York (5 years-old), Texas (5 years-old), Ohio (5 years-old), and Maryland ( 6 & 7 years-old).

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Just Drinks

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Massachusetts brewers Lord Hobo and Lone Pine Brewing will sit together under a new holding company but will retain their "identity and name"

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The Whiskey Wash

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Crown Royal is the best-selling Canadian whisky brand in the world, known for its exquisitely smooth blend and iconic purple velvet bag. The Crown Royal Signature range includes blended, rye, and high-proof whisky expressions, alongside the well-aged ‘Master’ series, flavored whiskies, and even canned cocktails. The brand’s enduring popularity is evidenced by sales of 7.7 million cases worldwide in 2023, making Crown Royal the 4 th highest-selling world whisky brand.

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Just Drinks

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Languedoc wine cooperative Vignobles Foncalieu has promoted Emmanuelle Rivière into the role of new managing director.

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The Whiskey Wash

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Mark Littler contacted Nc’Nean, Ardnahoe and Diageo about the challenges and opportunities for new distilleries in the scotch whisky industry. In 2013 there were 107 whisky distilleries in Scotland, as of October 2024 the Scotch Whisky Association says there are 150 and counting. That is 43 new distilleries in ten years, with more set to open throughout 2024 and further still in planning and construction.

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Just Drinks

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Lifeway believes Danone’s offer undervalues its business. But will the French dairy giant return to the table?

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The Whiskey Wash

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Seattle-based 2BAR Spirits has launched a new gift pack for whiskey enthusiasts just in time for Christmas. Partnering with an award-winning chocolate maker, 2BAR has put together a boozy, sweet-toothed pack containing 2BAR bourbon, chocolate bitters, and delicious bourbon chocolate. Available online beginning November 15th, 2024, the 2BAR Whiskey + Chocolate Lovers Gift Pack will retail for $82.95 plus shipping. 2BAR Spirits Whiskey + Chocolate Lovers Gift Pack The new gift pack contains: 2

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Just Drinks

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The world’s food and drinks majors are selling products in low-income countries that are less healthy than those in richer markets, an NGO has claimed.

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Cocktails with Suderman

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

One goal of this newsletter is to explain how cocktails work and how you can make them work for you. There are a lot of recipes and discussions of ingredients, ratios, and techniques. But another goal is just to program drinks for readers — based mainly on the season, but also on holidays, and, occasionally, notable cultural events. Inevitably, there’s a bias towards the East Coast, where I live, and America more generally.

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Chilled Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Turning pumpkins into a sake-like beverage may sound weird, but it’s a creative way to tackle food waste while producing a delicious, seasonal drink. Every Halloween, a staggering 1.3 billion pounds of pumpkins are discarded across the United States. Takashi Sato, the eighth-generation brewer and president of San-J Tamari, is challenging people to change the way they do away with their carved decorations.

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Imbibe Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Sharing a drink is inherently an act of community. Whether with friends or strangers, lifting a glass creates connection in moments of both joy and sorrow. It was this notion of togetherness—of creating a shared experience—that partly inspired the newly launched Manojo Mezcal. Even the name itself, a portmanteau of mano (hand) and ojo (eye), literally translates to “a bunch.” The founders chose it to represent abundance.

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A Bar Above

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Copyright A Bar Above, generated with AI Table of Contents : Which Mocktail Recipes are Included in the Course What You’ll Learn Bar Tools You’ll Need Non-alcoholic cocktails are huge right now– which means that alcohol-free spirits and beverages are really stepping it up, thank goodness. And we’re stepping it up, too! Chris and Rob (our head of education) just launched a brand new course, Mocktails 101 , that will elevate your spirit-free drinks, whether or not you have

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Howdy, friends - I’m heading into the weekend early today and I encourage you to do the same if at all possible. I’m on my way up to Petoskey, Michigan to go be a tourist in someone else’s tourist town for a change. (They love it when you point that out.) There’s some fun stuff to do over the next couple of days, so take a look at these… This Weekend: The Beer Temple is selling 8-year vertical collections of Bell’s Expedition Stout today?

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Drinkhacker

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Craft bourbon pioneers Wyoming Whiskey recently dropped the fourth installment in their limited-edition National Parks Series. The previous release honored Grand Teton National Park , but for this latest offering, the Kirby-based distillery is returning to perhaps the most recognizable stretch of federally protected wilderness, Yellowstone. In particular, they are celebrating one of its most well-known features, Mammoth Hot Springs.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Chardonnay is one of the most popular white wine grapes in the world, grown in diverse regions from across the northern Hemisphere to the southern tip of Argentina and remote islands off of Australia. Although there are great examples of wines made from Chardonnay from each of these distinct areas, the examples that fetch the highest prices all come from the variety’s home in France.

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Drinkhacker

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Holmes Cay is best known for its vintage-dated, single cask rum offerings, but with the new Infinity Cask, we’re getting something entirely different: A blend of aged rums from 13 distilleries in 7 countries, ranging from 20 to a whopping 47 years old. (Production took place between 1976 and 2003.) How this rum came to be is an especially unique story: With origins in Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad, Guadeloupe, Barbados, Venezuela, and Brazil, the rums in this cask once belonged to the aged rum

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Everything feels ( and is ) more expensive these days, and wine certainly isn’t immune to that trend — especially as consumers increasingly opt for premium bottles over bulk juice. But even above what most of us would consider the highest end, there’s another echelon of luxury wines with shockingly high prices. These coveted, collectable bottles easily break the $5,000-mark and come from the top winemakers and regions in the world.

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Drinkhacker

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

There are lots of ways to preserve a half-consumed bottle of wine, but one of the most reliable is to use argon gas, which is heavier than air and provides an invisible blanket of protection between the wine in a bottle and the oxygen above it. Fresh-Port is a minor twist on this theme, a two-part solution that includes a can of Airgone-branded argon gas and the Fresh-Port stopper itself.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The Espresso Martini has been around since the 1980s, but over the last few years, it’s been embraced by a new generation of cocktail lovers and bartenders — in fact, it’s more popular today than at any point in its history, as you can easily tell from its presence seemingly everywhere cocktails are consumed. It’s certainly strengthened the connection between coffee and cocktails — enthusiasts of both can get behind a well-made Espresso Martini — but it’s also heightened the profile of coffee li

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The Whiskey Wash

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Christmas is just around the corner and if you are searching for the perfect Christmas gift for the whisky lover in your life, there’s no need to look any further. As Co-founder and Managing Director of Still Spirit, Whisky Hammer, and Halcyon Spirits, I am lucky enough to have built up knowledge and experience that can help you to find the best whisky Christmas gift for every type of whisky fan.

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Good Spirits News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Woodinville Whiskey recently introduced its first sourced whiskey, Woodinville Founder’s Find, as part of its annual Harvest Release. The first bottling in the Founder’s Find line of rare and unusual whiskeys is a 12-year-old whiskey from Tennessee, blended six years into aging with a small dose (4%) of 15-year-old Indiana bourbon. Its viscous body, incredible depth, and mile-long finish comes not only from the liquid but from the uncommon way it’s been aged: in a reconditioned barrel, a proc

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The Whiskey Wash

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

It’s still entirely possible to find outstanding scotch whiskies for under £100, with plenty of impressive options available. Although scotch whisky prices have reached record highs, many distilleries remain dedicated to offering excellent bottles at accessible price points. This carefully selected list of ten whiskies highlights a diverse range of flavor profiles from across Scotland, offering both classic choices and a few hidden gems.

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PubClub

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Formula 1 returns to Las Vegas in November. Photo: F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix Formula 1 is fueled by more than petrol, sponorships and millions of dollars in money. It is also fueled by the fans, and those fans themselves need fuel. With that in mind, here is a rundown of where to eat and drink in Las Vegas for the F1 race at bars and restaurants. The Las Vegas F1 race is Thursday night through Saturday night, Nov. 21-23.

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The Whiskey Wash

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Benromach Distillery has partnered with fashion brand, Reworked 348 , to reimagine traditional distillery workwear as everyday, fashionable jackets. Together with Reworked 348’s head designer, Sally Harnden, the Benromach team has helped to design the jackets to emulate the customary distillery attire whilst also working with current fashion trends.

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The Whiskey Wash

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Japanese whisky continues to command attention on the world stage, as evidenced by the standout performances at the 2024 World Whiskies Awards. These prestigious awards celebrate exceptional craftsmanship, and this year’s gold medalists highlight the unique artistry and innovation behind some of Japan’s most revered distilleries. In part one of this two-part exploration, we delve into the techniques, distinctive ingredients, and unique aging processes that define the gold medal-winning Japanese

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