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Toast To Love With These 8 Valentine’s Day Cocktails!

Chilled Magazine

Gin , Liqueur French Jasmine Tonic by Chambord Liqueur Ingredients 3/4 oz. Fords Gin 6 drops Jasmine Water 3 oz. Gin Cham-Bramble by Chambord Liqueur Ingredients 1 oz. Tequila Aphrodite’s Arrow by Virgin Hotels NYC’s Everdene Head Bartender, Marlon Rowley Ingredients 1 1/2 oz. Check them out below.

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Mastering Extracts and Essences With Sunken Harbor Club’s Garret Richard

VinePair

By the time Booker and Dax closed in 2016, I was the head bartender, and I spent the next year at the NoMad learning to make a lot of very good drinks very quickly. Dave Arnold and Don Lee then opened Existing Conditions in 2018, and I will eternally be grateful that they saw fit to bring me on as head bartender.

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The Lime Rickey Endures

Imbibe Magazine

It’s that rare soft drink that is as famous as its cocktail counterpart, the Gin Rickey. At the latter, head bartender Ray Fritz was inspired to add a Lime Rickey to the menu last year by his youthful work as a soda jerk at Longacre’s Modern Dairy , a soda fountain in southeastern Pennsylvania that dates back to the 1920s.

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We Asked 22 Bartenders: What’s the Most Underrated Summer Cocktail?

VinePair

While clear spirits like gin and tequila might feel like the most obvious choices for summertime sipping, rum and bourbon also have their place, as do lighter, low-ABV options like vermouth and Pimm’s. What better way to refresh your palate than with cucumber, mint, lime, and gin? Basically, the cocktail is a Gin Mojito.

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Clarification and High-Acid Stirred Drinks With Theo Ouya of Bar Contra

VinePair

I’m biased, of course, because I was head bartender at both bars. He’s left with a liquid that has the same sweetness as simple syrup and exactly mirrors the acidity of lime juice. It’s the same sweetness as simple syrup and just as sour as lemon juice in one compact, complex, perfectly clear package.

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Beverage Trends for 2024

Cheers

Jac’s On Bond in New York makes one with Grey Goose vodka, Lustau Blanco, balsamic vinegar, a pinch of salt, and garnished with skewered cherry tomatoes; Casaléna in Los Angeles has a Caprese Martini with gin, tomato, basil, vermouth and tomato celery bitters. rhubarb bitters, blood orange tincture and Fever Tree aromatic tonic.

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Transforming Spirits to Liqueurs with Jonathan Adler and Danny Reylock of Shinji’s

VinePair

It takes years of deliberate recipe testing to gain anything resembling fluency in this artistic endeavor, and that’s why new bartenders learn to develop recipes using the “Mister Potato Head” method. Countless terrific cocktails at some of the world’s best bars have been invented using the Potato Head template.

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