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This year’s Outstanding Contribution recipient is Perth Bar Owner Dimitri Rtshiladze

Australian Bartender

This award pays tribute to someone who has made a marked difference to the bar industry through their passion and dedication and who has had an outsized, positive effect on the industry. He first started gracing the pages of Bartender magazine as a young bartender, at seminal Perth bar, Mechanics Institute.

Bar 98
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Breweries Are Finding Fertile Partnerships With Gardeners and Plant Collectors

Imbibe Magazine

We’re the alternative hobby store,” says beer and bar manager Tanner Frizsell. RateBeer.com named it the world’s best new brewery in 2014, and co-founders Jonathan Buford and Patrick Ware traveled the world for their Into the Wilderness TV show. Jen Adams clearly understands the correlation between gardening and beer.

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Next Wave Awards Brewer of the Year: Derek Gallanosa

VinePair

Two years in, Gallanosa made the move to the brewery’s marketing department to learn that side of the business before securing the head brewer position at nearby startup Abnormal Beer Company in 2014. There, Gallanosa unleashed the innovation that put his name on the entire brewing industry’s radar: imperial pastry stouts.

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Next Wave Awards Industry Icon of the Year: Clover Club

VinePair

But a new-look team was formed when general manager Christine Williams officially became a partner in 2014. Prior to Clover Club, Reiner became the face of one of New York’s first high-volume craft cocktail bars when she and Fedroff, along with four other partners, founded The Flatiron Lounge (2003-2018).

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Behind the Bar, Well Spirits Have Changed

VinePair

To wit: There were fewer than 600 American distilleries in 2014, and there are more than 2,300 American distilleries now. The Spirit Market’s Expansion The basic philosophy behind building a well hasn’t transformed. The tools surrounding it have. This statistic — which doesn’t cover the growth of non-U.S. But now?

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We Asked 20 Sommeliers: Which Wine Do You Wish People Ordered More? (2024)

VinePair

Roderick Williams, bar manager and certified sommelier, Smoked , Columbia, S.C. “I I am a big fan of the 2014 Margón Valdemuz. If you could bottle the experience of drinking a cup of hot chocolate by a warm fire on a snowy winter day, you would be left with an Amarone della Valpolicella.

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25 Bartending Blogs That you should check out in 2022

Today's Bartender

Jeffrey Morgenthaler Author of ‘The Bar Book,’ Jeffrey Morgenthaler is one of the most influential bartenders/bar managers/owners in the industry. To prove it, she’s been a finalist for Saveur’s 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018 best cocktail blog award. Favorite Post : 5 Essential Soft Skills for Great Bar Managers 7.