PUNCH

MARCH 5, 2024

Detroit, Michigan’s early morning bars, like Abick’s Bar and Eastpointe Pub, which serve factory workers and first responders, are in decline.

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 27, 2024

Vermouth’s original companions may have been no more illustrious than a simple dribble of water or a lump of ice. But in the late 19th century, when this European import encountered gin and whiskey in American bars, it not only made vermouth a cocktail staple but also spurred a level of innovation that still resonates today. The modern cocktail renaissance saw bartenders renewing their appreciation for vermouth, which in turn energized the category.

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Chilled Magazine

MARCH 19, 2024

We go inside the mind of George F. Manska for an analytical look at how whiskey drinkers can be their own worst enemy. Recently we’ve refocused on a broader profile of the spirits/whiskey taster/drinker. As a sensory research company since 2002, we have noticed that the public’s predilection for alcohol, particularly among neat, straight whiskey drinkers, inevitably results in a lack of recognition of the very spirits they claim as their “favorites.

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A Bar Above

MARCH 8, 2024

Ready to spice up your culinary journey? Then the National Restaurant Association Show 2024 is calling your name… And the best part? Chris will be there repping A Bar Above! When : May 18-21, 2024 Where : The bustling city of Chicago ( McCormick Place : 2301 S. King Dr., Chicago, IL 60616) Find Us : Booth 11143 Photo by Tim Gouw via www.unsplash.com This awesome expo promises to be an unforgettable experience for foodservice professionals and enthusiasts alike, so we hope to see you there.

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BarLifeUK

MARCH 12, 2024

Stauning Drinks Kollektive Entry Deadline: 4th May, 2024 Click to view full size Earlier this year BarLifeUK interviewed Ali Reynolds about his role as global ambassador and head of advocacy for Stauning Whisky. During that chat we got the impression that Stauning were planning to enter the cocktail competition scene in a big way, and sure enough, this week the Danish distiller unveiled the Stauning Drinks Kollektive, a huge international competition open to bartenders in the UK, Denmark, German

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MARCH 22, 2024

Most everyone I know already has their OOOs set for Spring Break and my world’s feeling fairly slow heading into this weekend, but I do have a barrel-aged Odd Side stout with hazelnuts and bacon in my fridge, so I should probably tend to that today, huh? Beats shoveling the driveway. If you’re looking to get out and about over the next few weeks, the events calendar is still pretty dang full while breweries wait for warmer, more beer-friendly weather to arrive.

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 15, 2024

As we recently explored in our Drinks Atlas column, Irish whiskey is experiencing a renaissance. From near oblivion less than a century ago, the industry has rebounded with both historic makers pushing the category and new brands entering the fray. Natterjack Irish Whiskey was conceived of by entrepreneur Aidan Mehigan, who aimed to create a contemporary Irish whiskey, both incorporating American techniques and paying homage to the spirit of the island.

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Chilled Magazine

MARCH 11, 2024

Celebrate National Espresso Martini Day with this riff on the classic! Manny Hinojosa, Cazadores global brand ambassador, mixes his Espresso Ginger Martini with coffee liqueur to mellow espresso’s bitter side. The result: an amazing blend of powerful espresso and the spicy heat of ginger. Check out the recipe below! Photo by Manny Hinojosa Tequila Espresso Ginger Martini by Manny Hinojosa Ingredients ½ oz.

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VinePair

MARCH 14, 2024

If there’s one thing whiskey fans love, it’s superlatives. Oldest, highest proof, rarest — we covet them all. Identifying “best” is a whole different ball game. Taste is, after all, subjective. But that doesn’t make it any less fun to try. When I spoke to top experts while assembling the Mount Rushmore of Bourbon , several said that bourbon has the public’s attention, but America’s epic ryes may eclipse even the best corn-based mash bills.

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BarLifeUK

MARCH 11, 2024

Don’t eat yellow snow. Especially in March, because it’s probably not snow. Most journalists mark the arrival of Spring with descriptions of birdsong, blossom and flowers bursting into beautiful life. Not so me. Spring, for me, arrives the first time I am woken up at three A.M by the unearthly howl of foxes shagging in the hedge behind my flat. “Not this s**t again” I invariably say to myself, followed by “f **g foxes f **g”, which, I’m not ashamed to sa

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Malt

MARCH 21, 2024

A return trip to Heaven. The post Heaven Hill Heritage Collection 18-Year-Old Bourbon first appeared on Malt.

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PUNCH

MARCH 21, 2024

Beer flights are a divisive debate in craft beer. For some, they are unnecessary holdovers. For others, they're a key to accessibility.

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 8, 2024

Portland, Oregon’s proximity to Forest Park , one of the nation’s largest urban forest reserves, is my favorite thing about the city. In one moment, you can brunch on eggs Benedict and mimosas and the next explore hiking trails in a lush 5,200-acre forest. So I was excited about Freeland Spirits Forest Gin. It spotlights ingredients found in that very park, five blocks away from the distillery.

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Chilled Magazine

MARCH 25, 2024

Our first Drink of the Week feature of the Spring season is the Pineapple Xpress cocktail at C&S Seafood and Oyster Bar! Available across their three metro Atlanta locations, this delicious drink features Coconut Rum, White Rum, Pineapple Puree, and lime juice, and is the ideal drink to welcome the warmer weather! Check it out below. Rum Pineapple Xpress Ingredients 1 oz.

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VinePair

MARCH 7, 2024

If you drink wine on a regular basis, chances are you have a go-to glass or grape you gravitate to on menus or your local shop. But if you’re in the mood to shake up your standard order in favor of something a bit unexpected, then you’ve come to the right place. Seeking expert advice, we asked sommeliers for the overlooked and underappreciated bottles, grapes, and wine styles they are currently coveting.

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BarLifeUK

MARCH 1, 2024

Nc’nean Creations Entry Deadline: 30th April, 2024 We’ve been saying Nc’nean Creations is one of the best comps on the circuit for some time , and the fact it grows in scope each year would seem to bear this out. In 2023, Creations’ second year, Nc’nean added two extra UK heats to accommodate the rising number of bartenders wishing to compete, and this year European bartenders will join the action, with two heats being added to the tour, in France and Germany.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MARCH 29, 2024

For a few years, this was all the info we had about Demo Brewing in Ravenswood: A logo, a window, and a bunch of brick. Today, they open up the doors and welcome us all inside. With their Grand Opening today, we’d like to officially welcome Demo to the Chicagoland beer scene! You can swing by today or tomorrow and try to drink them dry on their first days open.

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PUNCH

MARCH 19, 2024

For brewer DeWayne Schaaf, a strain of wild yeast became the only living connection to his late father—then it was lost to history. Or so he thought.

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 18, 2024

In his March/April 2024 Mixopedia column, Wayne Curtis chronicles the rise and fall and maybe another rise of cream cocktails. While cocktails made with dairy have been around for centuries, the golden age of cream cocktails was kicked off in the late 1960s by the Brandy Alexander. What followed were drinks such as the Grasshopper and White Russian.

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Chilled Magazine

MARCH 21, 2024

The word ‘whisky’ has deep Scottish roots. It was derived from the Gaelic word ‘uisge beatha’, or ‘usquebaugh’, which means ‘water of life.’ As part of our Whisky Around the World annual content series, we bring you eight Scotch whiskies, rich in craftsmanship, culture, and history. Bunnahabhain 12-Year The beginning of the Bunnahabhain core range, this multi-award-winning whisky first launched in 1979.

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A Bar Above

MARCH 1, 2024

As a new bar manager, there are certain terms and vocabulary that you need to be familiar with so you can communicate effectively with your team. One of those pieces of vocabulary that you should develop and understand is the term “par.” We’ll quickly cover what the term par is and how it applies to the bar and restaurant world, and then we’ll discuss one of its most important applications: the par sheet.

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VinePair

MARCH 13, 2024

People are particular about their Guinness. The “perfect” two-part pou r is argued and obsessed over by stout enthusiasts worldwide, and for many, Guinness is the only beer they care to drink. But this St. Patrick’s day, we say it’s time to bend the rules and explore how Guinness cocktails can turn another stout-soaked afternoon chasing down a parade into a full-fledged soirée.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MARCH 27, 2024

Like usual, Substack is telling me this is too long for your inboxes (fingers crossed they’re wrong!) but we’ve got a ton of fun stuff for Premium Subscribers to look at this week, including another big entrant into this year’s Battle of the Fruity Summer Beers. Want to see? Join our awesome cadre of Premium Subscribers to get a look at this and much more: Subscribe now But for now, let’s all collectively enjoy … The New Illinois Beer Label of the Week: Printers Row

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PUNCH

MARCH 18, 2024

The Chartreuse-spiked Martini has inspired a range of modern takes, incorporating everything from satsuma-infused gin to Midori and more.

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 1, 2024

Of the many bottles atop my home bar, gin holds the majority seat. But that’s not to say the spirit is necessarily my favorite. Rather, I’m fascinated by the sheer variety found within the world of gin and its ability to reflect geographical flora and flavors, as well as unique distillation or aging practices. Enter The Botanist Islay Cask Rested Gin.

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Chilled Magazine

MARCH 19, 2024

As warm Spring weather quickly approaches, we can’t think of a better way to celebrate than by taking a trip to the city that always blossoms with romance—Paris! Can’t fit that into your schedule? Whipping up some French inspired Spring cocktails might be the next-best thing. We asked Christine Cooney, co-founder of Heavenly Spirits Imports about the topic of French inspired Spring cocktails and here is what she had to say.

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The Whiskey Wash

MARCH 28, 2024

We review Waterford Organic Cuvée Gaia, made from the organic Irish barley of six different Ireland farms. (image via Waterford Whisky) Editor’s Note: This whiskey was provided to us as a review sample by the party behind it. Per our editorial policies , this in no way influenced the outcome of this review. The Irish whiskey scene, like the American, is defined in part by a mix of traditional larger brands and a newer crop of craft-style outlets.

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VinePair

MARCH 11, 2024

Despite the bleak forecast for much of the global wine industry, Americans still love their red, white, and rosé. In 2021, the U.S. imported a whopping 456 million gallons of wine, accounting for roughly 17 percent of the world’s total wine imports. And with the U.S. being home to over 11,000 wineries, American drinkers have no shortage of options when it comes to great bottles — and their consumption habits prove it.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MARCH 25, 2024

Happy Oberon Day to all who celebrate! After living in Michigan for a few years 1 , I think I’ve realized why Oberon Day became such a big deal: Spring in Michigan kinda sucks. It’s damp, it’s grey, it’s not immediately warm and sunshiney like in other places. It’s just the time of year when there’s no more snow on the ground for you to enjoy on a set of skis or a snowmobile.

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PUNCH

MARCH 14, 2024

Madrid’s Combinación, an easy cocktail made with gin and sweet vermouth from the 1920s, is seeing a revival in Spain and around the world.

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 25, 2024

Born of the oft-maligned era in the late ’90s and early aughts when everything became an overly sweet ’tini, the Lychee Martini is most often credited to New York City “clubstaurants” like Lot 61 and Korean restaurant Clay. But whether due to pure nostalgia or the fact that bartenders are a group that tend to love a challenge, the Lychee Martini is back and—at the risk of cliché—it’s better than ever.

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Chilled Magazine

MARCH 15, 2024

Countdown to St. Patrick’s Day with Power’s Irish Whiskey and the Chilled 100 Bartenders. Power’s Irish Whiskey has teamed up with the Chilled 100 bartenders in our cocktail countdown to St. Patrick’s Day! Celebrate with us by mixing original cocktails created by our talented bartenders using Power’s Irish Whiskey. Throughout its long history, Powers Irish Whiskey has shaped not only Irish culture but the world far beyond the Emerald Isle.

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The Whiskey Wash

MARCH 18, 2024

The US’s burgeoning whiskey industry has come on in leaps and bounds during recent decades. With distilleries stepping up their visitor experiences, there has never been a better time to take a trip around the must-visit whiskey distilleries in the United States. In fact, in 2022, visitors to distilleries in Kentucky exceeded 2 million, whilst Tennessee welcomed over 6 million whiskey tourists.

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VinePair

MARCH 28, 2024

Earlier this week, Mexican federal authorities carried out a raid at a home belonging to Grover and Scarlet Sanschagrin, the founders of tequila transparency advocacy site Tequila Matchmaker. Officials claim the home, Casa Lotecito, was being used as “an adulterated tequila factory,” Mexican news outlet Mural reported early on Wednesday afternoon. The Attorney General’s Office (FGR) in Jalisco was tipped off by a legal representative of the Consejo Regulador del Tequila (CRT), which allegedly in

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MARCH 20, 2024

Welcome to…spring? Technically? It’s snowing in my neck of the woods today and I’ve got my curling league later tonight but hey -- Oberon Day is just a few days from now, which says “springtime” loudly enough for me. The New Illinois Beer Label of the Week: It’s been a minute since we’ve seen a new Noon Whistle label come into the world, and this one almost certainly has a cool story behind it.

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