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Chain Restaurant Cocktails: The Good, the Bad, and the Outrageously Boozy

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He credits the company’s meticulous training regimen with helping to kickstart the cocktail renaissance in the U.K. and cultivating a generation of well-trained bartenders. The structure that these systems provided also helped shape his career as a consultant for bars and liquor brands.

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We Asked 25 Bartenders: What’s the Best Rum for Cocktails? (2024)

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Seeking the best rums for cocktails, we asked bartenders around the world for their go-to bottles behind the bar. And with warmer weather officially around the corner, who isn’t in the mood to add a new rum or two to their liquor cabinet? Thankfully, our experts’ selections cover a range of styles. Volcanique.

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Do Empirical Spirits Serve Any Purpose Beyond Fueling Viral Headlines?

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Kinsman wrote that the spirit was a “smooth, warm, vegetal liquor that is simultaneously familiar and elusive, and endlessly sippable,” while noting it was not ideal for cocktails. They are rarely offered as sipping spirits and, more often, have found their way into signature cocktails.

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