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A Grand Marnier Twist on the Margarita by Way of New Orleans

PUNCH

Deniseea Head, industry pioneer, cocktail consultant and educator, draws inspiration from NOLA’s local drinks scene and Grand Marnier’s unexpected ingredient combinations for her elevated spin on the classic Margarita cocktail in the final episode of The Grand Encounter: Behind the Bar series.

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3 Cocktails from Horton Rum

Chilled Magazine

The weather might be cooler, but the flavors and essence of warmer days are evergreen. Horton Rum’s ready-to-drink cocktails are sunshine in a can. Mix up their colorful cocktails at home and brighten up any gloomy autumn day! Liqueur , Rum Key Lime Pie Rum-arita Ingredients 1 oz. Pineapple Juice ½ oz. Key Lime Juice ½ oz. Triple Sec ½ oz. Agave 1 ½ oz.

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This New Amaro Has Become a Citywide Obsession

PUNCH

This new amaro, Handshake, is made in Portland, Maine and works in Paper Planes, Oaxaca Old-Fashioneds and other cocktail recipes.

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Chilled’s Holiday Gift Guide is Back!

Chilled Magazine

Chilled Media’s Holiday Gift Guide is back and better than ever! This year, our Holiday Gift Guide is packed with the coolest gifts for those spirited cocktail lovers on your list—and we’ve got more of the best gift-giving ideas than ever before! We also bring you the best in eCommerce, featuring effortless purchasing power with all the convenience, variety, exclusive finds, and premium products at just a click away.

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Food & Beverage Industry Report 2024

Driven by a diverse and exciting ecosystem of passionate, ambitious, and often young entrepreneurs, the Food & Beverage (F&B) sector is a highly competitive environment full of immense challenges and exciting opportunities. Expert Market’s 2024 industry report, sponsored by Toast, is informed by a survey of 522 U.S. food and beverage professionals, from restaurant owners to food service managers, providing insights into the real-time challenges and opportunities within the industry.

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Why Tiramisu Never Goes Out of Style

Imbibe Magazine

Ubiquity can beget creativity. Consider the cocoa-dusted slices of tiramisu that are all but guaranteed to be in the dessert case of your nearest Italian-accented restaurant. Those old-fashioned iterations inspire cooks and bartenders to reinterpret the recipe with globetrotting ingredients and untraditional formats. In the last two years, I’ve sipped a Tiramisu Martini at a Nashville cocktail bar (see recipe below), spooned up a version dotted with local strawberries in a farmhouse in Burgundy,

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This Week's "Best of the Year" Beer News

Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

Premium Subscribers: Did you enjoy your exclusive first look at our BCBS rankings from this weekend? We hope so! If you did, please tell a friend: Share Regular Subscribers: Do you want to see what we thought ASAP without delay? Join up for about $1 per week with a few cents thrown in for the landlords! Subscribe now While I still believe that winning a GABF medal remains the highest honor that can be bestowed in craft beer, earning acknowledgement from the annual Craft Beer & Brewing Best o

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Women in Beverage: Dr. Sonat Birnecker Hart

Cheers

Dr. Sonat Birnecker Hart is the owner and president of Koval , an organic distillery in Chicago. Women in Beverage is part of our 2024 Beverage Industry Inclusion supplement. How did you get into the beverage alcohol business? In 2008, my husband and I gave up our careers to follow a set of life goals that became more pressing after we had our first child: We wanted to work together, live in a city we loved, be close to family, and make our own rules (which for me at the time was running a b

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SOM posts strong financial performance

Spiritz

SOM Distilleries & Breweries Limited reported a total income of Rs 804.69 crore for the half-year of the ongoing fiscal ending September 2024, up 26.8 percent from Rs 634.6 crore for the corresponding period of the last fiscal year. The company’s half-year EBITDA for the current fiscal stood at Rs. 100.03 crore, a 29 percent increase over Rs 77.59 crore reported in the corresponding period of the last fiscal.

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Review: Newair Countertop Whiskey Ice Ball Maker

Drinkhacker

Ice is a relatively modern creation that most take for granted today. To many, it almost seems unfathomable to not be able to enjoy a soda or alcoholic beverage chilled with ice. Early access to ice was once achieved through the laborious practice of harvesting from the surface of frozen lakes in the dead of winter and making efforts to conserve it for as long as possible.

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Croatia Tourism Grows As It Proves To Be A Popular Place For Travelers

PubClub

Croatia has beautiful coastlines with water so clear you just can’t help but hump into it. Photo: PubClub.com While some destinations are discouraging travelers and even charging them – Venice, Italy will start dinging visitors €5 to enter the city on certain dates in 2025 – Croatia is welcoming people with open arms. And it’s working. As of the end of September, 19.3 million visitors had 102.5 million overnight stays in the country, which is a 3% increase in arrivals and a 0.5% rise

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Top 5 Ways to Optimize Your Loyalty Strategy

Speaker: Lauren Barash, Vice President, Brand Marketing

In an ever-evolving industry, building and retaining loyal customers is critical to the success of any restaurant business. Join Lauren Barash, VP of Brand Marketing at Full Course, as she delves into the world of restaurant loyalty programs, and reveals the top five essential strategies to optimize your approach! This webinar will explore: Loyalty trends and what you should be focusing on 📊 Actionable insights and ideas to help you develop the most powerful and effective loyalty program

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Perth legends Pippa Canavan & Murray Walsh open Bar Love

Australian Bartender

Photography Ryan Ng. Supplied. 195 Brisbane St, Northbridge, Western Australia www.barlove.com.au | @barlovebar If you’ve wandered past 195 Brisbane Street recently, you’ve probably noticed the flashy new digs where the old Harvison Gallery used to be. Once a quiet, empty block, it’s now been transformed into something that stands out—a cheeky, retro-styled bar with gold-foiled pin-up girls and hand-painted signs boasting “Cold Drinks, Warm Service, and Hot Bartenders.

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Chocolate Peppermint Stick Cocktail

Mix That Drink

This delicious drink blends creme de cacao with cream and peppermint schnapps. It tastes like chocolate thin mint cookies, and is perfect for holiday parties.

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Review: Bunnahabhain 30 Years Old

Drinkhacker

Islay Scotch producer Bunnahabhain has two new core offerings in the United States: 30 and 40 year old single malts. Both of them carry suggested price tags in the low four digits, taking the brand’s regular stateside offerings into new, ultra-premium territory. Today, we’re looking at the 30 year old whisky, an unpeated single malt aged in 100 percent sherry casks.

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Snowball Cocktail

Mix That Drink

Enjoy a festive Snowball Cocktail with Advocaat, brandy, fizzy lemonade, and a squeeze of lime. Perfect for cozy gatherings or holiday celebrations!

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New Releases: Milam & Greene, Chattanooga, Remus Bourbon, & More…

The Whiskey Wash

In new American whiskey and bourbon releases this week Chattanooga expands its Barrel Finishing Series, Remus Bourbon brings back a limited fan favorite, and Milam & Greene rounds off the Wildlife Collection. Let’s take a look at the new releases in the American whiskey and bourbon world this week. Milam & Greene Cooper’s Hawk Single Barrel Bourbon Credit: Milam & Greene Milam & Greene has rounded off the 2024 Wildlife Collection with the release of Cooper’s Hawk Single Barrel

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Poinsettia Champagne Cocktail Recipe

Mix That Drink

The festive Poinsettia cocktail blends Cointreau, cranberry juice, and champagne. Perfect for holiday parties, it's refreshing, easy to make and light.

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WSO hosts conference on spices’ supply chain

Spiritz

The World Spice Organisation (WSO)’s Chairman, Ramkumar Menon said that ensuring the safety of our spices is not only a responsibility but a commitment towards building a resilient and sustainable future for our farmers and consumers alike. Ramkumar commented this during the first day of the third edition of the National Spices Conference 2024, which was dedicated to the theme ‘Sustainable Spices Supply Chain - Way Forward.’ The event took place at the DoubleTree by Hilton in A

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Why Craft Breweries Are Still Launching Hard Seltzer Brands

VinePair

When brewers visit one of Green Cheek Beer ’s four locations in Southern California, odds are good that Evan Price will discuss hard seltzer. “They’re just like, ‘Oh man, seltzer is just continuing to decline. Nobody wants it,’” says Price, a cofounder and brewer. “And I’m like, ‘Oh yeah, that’s the case, huh?’” Among its medal-winning IPAs and pilsners, Green Cheek regularly offers multiple hard seltzers, including purple-tinted Lavender Lemonade.

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US-based High Basin Brands raises $4m, acquires local distiller

Just Drinks

US-based High Basin Brands (HBB) has launched with the backing of $4m seed round and the acquisition of Treaty Oak Brewing and Distilling.

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Mike Dojcsak’s winning journey at the El Dorado Heritage Competition

The Cocktail Lovers

Before we get on to the competition and hear about it from the winner’s perspective, can we just take a moment to say that team El Dorado sure know how to impress. Ordinarily we wouldn’t speak on behalf of the competitors much less put words in their mouths but we can honestly say that this was particular comp was quite the experience. Destination Guyana for an action-packed itinerary of two distinct parts: the first in and around the capital of Georgetown, a tour of Uitvlugt sugar cane fields,

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2025 to be “year of agave spirits”, says Bacardi

Just Drinks

Bacardi expects agave spirits to benefit from growing consumer interest in bartender recommendations and food-led social occasions in 2025.

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No Fly List: These Spirits Are Banned on Airplanes

VinePair

One of the best things about traveling is sampling the food and drinks unique to that region straight from the source. After all, there’s nothing like pairing freshly made, traditional Mexican food with a shot of mezcal or washing down your mofongo with rum in Puerto Rico. For many, the experience is so great that they’re tempted to bring some locally produced spirits home to enjoy further.

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Telangana bars Diljit from singing songs referencing alcohol

Spiritz

Singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh recently found himself in the spotlight after the Telangana government barred him from performing songs referencing alcohol and drugs at his Hyderabad concert. In response, Diljit issued a nationwide challenge that if all states ban alcohol consumption, he will permanently stop singing any alcohol themed songs. At his next concert in Ahmedabad in Gujarat, which is a dry state, Diljit avoided performing such tracks, even though he hadn’t received any formal notic

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Tasting the White Wines of Uruguay, 2024 Releases

Drinkhacker

Uruguay is hardly a region that Americans know much about — particularly when it comes to its wine production. The second smallest country in South America is largely known as something of a tony vacation spot for Argentinians, but it’s a rising star in the wine world, producing a wide assortment of coastal-driven bottlings. Rob has covered the wines of Uruguay extensively in the past, but although Uruguay’s wine production is over three-quarters devoted to red wines, today we

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Gingerbread Martini

Mix That Drink

Indulge in a Gingerbread Martini with gingerbread vodka, milk, chocolate syrup, nutmeg, and cinnamon. A festive, creamy cocktail for holiday celebrations.

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How Beverage Alcohol Producers Practice Sustainability in 2024

Cheers

Beverage alcohol has a sizeable carbon footprint. The global alcoholic beverage industry produces about 1.5 gigatons of greenhouse gas emissions annually, which is comparable to the emissions of around 276 million cars, according to a Manchester University Study conducted in 2020. Everything from growing the ingredients needed for fermentation, manufacturing and packaging to fuel used to ship these products around the world all contributes to climate change.

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Mead RTD firm Lixir eyes expansion with fundraising

Just Drinks

Lixir, a US start-up selling mead-based RTDs, is embarking on a fundraising round after securing the backing of a trio of industry veterans.

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Saving Money: 10 Modern-Day Car Features You Don’t Really Need

PubClub

Vehicles have come a long way since they were first introduced back in the late 1800s. In the beginning, cars had to be started via a manual crank before they could even be driven. They weren’t equipped with windshields; instead, drivers wore goggles to keep wind, bugs, and flying debris out of their eyes. In the early days of the automotive industry, vehicles could generally reach top speeds of 10 to 20 miles per hour depending on the model, so getting somewhere quickly wasn’t exact

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Elevate your Christmas Hosting with Clodagh McKenna, Portia Freeman and Peroni Nastro Azzurro at Winter by The River

Bar Magazine

The premium Italian beer brand has teamed up with experts in throwing the perfect party to help Brits elevate their Christmas parties this year Chef, presenter and interiors expert, Clodagh McKenna, reveals the festive trends to look out for, alongside her top tips to create the perfect atmosphere and make festive dining sparkle Resident cocktail expert on Channel 4s Sunday brunch, Portia Freeman, creates the Black’beery Sour – a memorable cocktail infused with Peroni Nastro Azzurro The Pero

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Compass Box Tells The Secrets Of Smoke

The Whiskey Wash

Compass Box showcase the sweet side of smoke with its new limited edition – Secrets of Smoke. Credit: Compass Box Compass Box , the enigmatic scotch whisky maker, has announced its latest limited edition release. Secrets of Smoke is a complex dram that “unveils the secret sweetness behind peated malts.” Crafted from a blend of sherry, bourbon, and wine cask-matured whiskies, the sweetness of the wine shines through, whilst retaining the characteristic smokiness of peated malts. 9,792 bott

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Hospitality Action launches 2024 Winter Auction with unforgettable experiences on offer

Bar Magazine

This winter, give the gift of a memorable experience while supporting a vital cause, as industry charity Hospitality Action launches its much-loved 2024 Winter Online Auction, in association with payment solutions company, Square. From 18 November to 2 December, bidding will open for more than 49 fantastic lots that make perfect Christmas presents for loved ones—or a treat for yourself.

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Whisky Review: The Glenturret Still Life Winter

The Whiskey Wash

Whiskies Similar To The Glenturret Still Life Winter Release? As mentioned in the review, this whisky can rival some of Macallan’s higher-end releases, so the comparison is fitting. Its tasting notes suggest a classic, old-style sherry-matured whisky, yet it carries The Glenturret ‘s modern character. While there isn’t much to directly compare with older Glenturret releases—most were independently bottled before the new ownership—the price comparison with brands like The Macallan, The Dalm

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Mulled White Wine Set to be the serve of the season, says RamTang’

Bar Magazine

Newly-launched London cello brand Ram Tang ’ is helping venues get into the festive spirit with its seasonal serve, the Ram Tang ’ Mulled White Wine , poised to be a winter trendsetter. Mulled White Wine is a fresh twist on the classic mulled wine, substituting red wine with a fruity, naturally sweet white wine, such as Riesling. This brings a lighter, fruitier profile that pairs beautifully with Ram Tang ’ Lemon Cello and a selection of seasonal spices, including a touch of cardamom, for a dist

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Danone raises takeover offer for kefir maker Lifeway Foods 

Just Drinks

Danone has increased its offer to acquire the remaining stock of US-based kefir and fermented probiotic products maker Lifeway Foods.

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GSN Review: Unsinkable Chocolate Liqueur

Good Spirits News

Sausalito Liquor Co., a Northern California spirits brand with gin and whiskey lines, partnered with TCHO (“cho”), a craft chocolate maker based in Berkeley, Calif., to build the limited-edition Unsinkable Chocolate Liqueur. The partnership started more than 3 years ago as Sausalito Liquor Co. was in its infancy. While coffee liqueurs were increasing in popularity, the spirits brand noticed chocolate liqueurs, an essential ingredient in many decadent cocktails, were mainly still over-sugared, un

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