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Master Mixology: Advanced Techniques & Pro Secrets for Bartender Mastery

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The Alchemy of Flavor: Understanding Molecular Mixology & Advanced Flavor Profiling Molecular mixology elevates cocktail creation to a scientific art form, employing techniques to manipulate textures, flavors, and presentations. Techniques like spherification (e.g., caviar-like spheres of fruit juice), foams (e.g.,

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Employees Only Turns 20: An Oral History of the Iconic NYC Speakeasy

VinePair

Excellent craft drinks, yes, but ones that were free-poured, doled out with haste, and in high volume. Audrey Saunders was behind the bar at Bemelmans and Eben Freeman was dabbling with molecular mixology at WD50. Of course, there was a really great underground scene of cocktail culture.

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At Modern Cocktail Bars, It’s Every Drink, Everywhere, All at Once. Is That Such a Bad Thing?

VinePair

And also people are realizing that at those high-end cocktail bars, those cocktails are very, very expensive and the margins are very tight. You need an element that is high-volume. It’s like, how can we provide a concept — two concepts that are great — and one is like a showroom and the other one is potentially high-volume.”

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Creating a New World of Cocktails

Spiritz

The high-end bars in India are definitely going through a very interesting phase of innovation and a process of offering unique experiences to their customers. High-volume bars are embracing automated bartending systems, some of which can even be programmed to whip up custom drinks based on customer preferences.