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How It Started: Elixir Saloon

Imbibe Magazine

Enter Mixology In 2004, I worked my tail off pulling it all together, paying myself as a six-day-a-week bartender, and learning so many lessons it made my head spin. Enter mixology. Our lead bartender Nick Madden is on six years now. By 2005, I was tired and happy. . My team loyalty is baffling.

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The Grand Encounter: Behind the Bar With Carina Soto Velasquez and Hugo Togni of Toronto’s Bar Pompette

Imbibe Magazine

Bringing this concept to life on screen, each episode will pair industry-leading bartenders with host Carina Soto Velasquez, to explore the marriage of unlikely elements and how these unexpected fusions can create something special.

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The Cookbook That Became Every Bartender’s Trusted Companion

VinePair

Expanding the Bartender’s Mind When the book was first published in 2008, craft bartenders were already beginning to look beyond the lexicon of classic cocktail recipes. The Flavor Bible” became a seminal text for a new class of curious bartenders who wanted to test the limits of what bartending could be. “I’m

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We Asked 10 Bartenders: Which Bottle Should Disappear From Back Bars and Bar Carts Forever? (2024)

VinePair

For home bartenders], using the same mix in a Margarita , Whiskey Sour , and Tom Collins will result in subpar drinks that taste overwhelmingly similar. Jeff White, lead bartender, Experimental Cocktail Club , NYC “I wish that black or opaque bottles would disappear from the back bar — sorry Hendrick’s !

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IN-DRINKS LAUNCHES 2024 BARTENDER COMPETITION TO CELEBRATE THE SPIRIT OF THE RICH COMMUNITIES SURROUNDING UK BARS

Bar Magazine

With Hoxton’s fabulous range of spirits, and the UK’s premier bartending organisation endorsing the competition, it’s sure to result in some breathtaking – and best-tasting – entries.”

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GRAND MARNIER PARTNERS WITH LEADING BARTENDERS TO CREATE ‘THE GRAND ENCOUNTER: BEHIND THE BAR’

Bar Magazine

Grand Marnier partners with bar entrepreneur and mixology aficionado Carina Soto Velasquez to present ‘The Grand Encounter: Behind the Bar’ a video content series and new chapter of their Grand Encounters campaign, with collaborators, Hugo Togni, Takuma Watanabe, and Deniseea Head.

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Mellow Corn: The Bottom Shelf Whiskey With a Cult Following

VinePair

Mellow Corn has a cult following on the Camp Runamok alumni Facebook group, where various bartenders extol its virtues,” says Frederic Yarm, lead bartender at Josephine in Somerville, Mass. Beyond the simple highball and Old Fashioned options, advanced mixological implications abound.

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