Tales of the Cocktail

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Selected from a pool of individuals, organizations, and 501(c)(3) nonprofits dedicated to enhancing the lives of bartenders and hospitality workers, the grant recipients are chosen each year by TOTCF’s Philanthropy & Development Committee. Safe Bars ($15,000 grant awarded) Safe Bars Inc.

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VinePair

JUNE 23, 2024

Illinois: Off Color Brewing Market Rate Availability: Early to Mid-Summer Founded in 2013 by David Bleitner and Goose Island alum John Laffler, Chicago’s Off Color Brewing has been making serious waves in the craft beer industry from the start — especially with its wild ales. It’s an homage to Quy Pham a.k.a.

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Bevspot

AUGUST 4, 2015

And after learning about his extensive background in the hospitality and alcohol industry, I knew we wouldn’t have a lack of topics to discuss. Career Hospitality and alcohol management lie at the core of Romard’s background. First Impressions Romard is a guy you want on your side. It was time to redefine the Boston attitude.

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Bevspot

AUGUST 4, 2015

And after learning about his extensive background in the hospitality and alcohol industry, I knew we wouldn’t have a lack of topics to discuss. Hospitality and alcohol management lie at the core of Romard’s background. First Impressions. Romard is a guy you want on your side. It was time to redefine the Boston attitude.

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Bouncer Promoter Promotion Hospitality 52

Chilled Magazine

MARCH 4, 2024

Absinthe is formally a Digestif, defined by Wikipedia as an alcoholic beverage served after a meal, traditionally believed to aid digestion even though there is not strong evidence to support this. I have hundreds of them, all sorted by base alcohol, on my website. That was a marketing gimmick in the 1990s. What can I mix it with?

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VinePair

JANUARY 17, 2024

At Booker and Dax in 2013, my first day of work in the cocktail world saw me using a double beam scale to balance centrifuge rotors full of lime juice. 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.

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VinePair

MARCH 13, 2024

There was certainly the continued rise of agave spirits, RTDs, low-ABV drinks, and non-alcoholic cocktails. There will probably be a separate Martini menu, and there will certainly be a list of non-alcoholic drinks. There was always a very clear cocktail development afoot, something being embraced by consumers and bar owners alike.

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VinePair

JULY 31, 2024

“I am really proud of this drink and initially worried it may be taken as gimmicky — and it is a little, that’s fine, we love silly s**t — but it’s a genuinely tasty and well-crafted drink,” she says, crediting head bartender Waka Murata for coming up with the concoction.

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Dry Atlas

DECEMBER 13, 2023

It wasn’t that one day I decided: I’m going to create a distilled non-alcoholic spirits brand, I’m going to start this non-alc movement, and it’s going to be a business. What options do you have that are non-alcoholic?” We’re talking late 2013, early 2014. You launched Seedlip with no precedent. Enter Seedlip.

Alcohol 52

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VinePair

MAY 19, 2024

Starbucks vs. Exit 6 In December 2013, a small brewpub called Exit 6 — located in a strip mall in the small town of Cottleville, Missouri — debuted a beer-on-beer cocktail called Frappucino, composed of a splash of Founders Breakfast Stout served over the brewery’s vanilla cream ale. “At And here, I do not think that was the case.”

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Bartender.com

JANUARY 9, 2024

We celebrated my dad’s birthday every year at Trader Vic’s and I developed an even deeper personal affinity for tropical-style drinks during my time as the head bartender at The Polynesian.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

especially among young people who are consuming alcohol at a lower rate than in prior decades. Although the tradition of sober Januarys has existed in Finland since the early 1940s, Dry January, as its popularly known, was conceived in 2013 by Alcohol Change UK , an organization that raises awareness about the dangers of alcohol abuse.

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Dry Atlas

JUNE 4, 2025

As co-founder of Distill Ventures , one of the most influential drink accelerators of the past decade, hes worked with over 100 founders across both traditional alcohol and non-alcoholic categories. Bartenders, in particular, can spot it a mile away. The post What Makes a Non-Alcoholic Brand Last? Quick exits are rare.

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VinePair

JUNE 19, 2025

Yet bartenders, distillers, brewers, and others can’t help themselves from trying to engineer the perfect pizza-flavored cocktail, spirit, or beer. Credit: Kevin Gibson via Alcohol Professor But as these breweries would come to realize — and perhaps already knew — was that Mamma Mia’s press was always going to be stronger than its sales.

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IPA Beer Infusions Vodka 100

VinePair

MAY 5, 2025

Essentially selling it door-to-door for over a decade, it would take until 2013 or so for luxury bars, restaurants, and nightclubs to latch onto it. If your bottle is only 40 percent alcohol the rest of its contents are mostly water, he says. First released in 2000, it retailed for an also-unheard-of $100 a bottle.

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Tequila Nightclub Bottling Bar 119

VinePair

DECEMBER 4, 2024

percent ABV, the high alcohol content amplifies its complex and nuanced character, while never overpowering on the nose or palate. Equally impressive is its creamy texture and on-point 100-proof alcohol content. Bottled at a cask strength 60.8 Feel free to proof it to your preference, though.

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Tequila Rum Gin Vodka 122

VinePair

APRIL 2, 2025

alcohol sales decline 3 percent overall, the brandy category was among the worst performers, down 10 percent, according to U.K.-based That is, unless youre a bartender. Bartenders have been swooning over St. Theres a need for those different paint colors as a talented bartender making a cocktail. based data provider IWSR.

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Taste Tequila

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Then, in 2013, Tapatio 110 landed in the USA, immediately setting a high bar for still-strength tequilas. We separated the Panel into two groups: half of them aficionados and half bartenders. As a group, bartenders seem to love high-proof spirits, so we thought it would be great to include their views. Earth on the nose.

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Tequila Bartender Bartending Bottling 105

Drinkhacker

APRIL 17, 2025

The story of Old Elk begins In 2013. To proof alcohol, water is added until the liquid reaches a desired strength. We cant wait to hear the bartenders community feedback about the latest iteration of Slow Cut Blended Straight and see how it plays into their creativity in cocktails, says Maddox.

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Whiskey Bitters Hospitality Bartender 81

VinePair

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

By now, most beer fans are aware that they have way more and, overall, wildly better options for non-alcoholic (NA) lagers and ales, compared to just a few years ago. Non-alcoholic beers can add complexity, flavors, and individuality to peoples non-alcoholic programs. Its like the possibilities are endless, he says.

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Beer Zero-Proof Stout IPA 60

VinePair

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

And I remember [the other bartender] turned to me like ‘maybe we shouldn’t serve those in pint glasses anymore?’” Trash & Treasure The headline in The Washington Post from 2013 reads “Bardo is back, without Bardo beers.” For a year Bardo’s bartenders served guest taps like local hipster darling Natty Boh. Like, really good.

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