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10 Years After His Passing, Sasha Petraske Still Lives On

VinePair

21, 2015, Sasha Petraske — the visionary bar owner who built the foundations of contemporary cocktail culture through seminal bars like Milk & Honey, Little Branch, The Varnish, and Dutch Kills — unexpectedly passed at the far-too-young age of 42. The kindness and grace he showed with that story has stuck with me.

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How Black Bartenders and Restaurateurs Are Creating More Blended Fusion Bar Programs

VinePair

But now, more bar programs and bartenders in the United States are finally exploring the vastness of Black drinking culture by blending its influences, one cup at a time. But acclaimed bartender and beverage educator Tiffanie Barriere (a.k.a. Criox, and Clairin, a sugar cane spirit (and subcategory of white rum) native to Haiti.

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It’s Everywhere, It’s So Julia — Midori Is Brat

VinePair

The bartender thrusts a Hulk green cocktail into your hands and you take a sip, allowing the melon-flavored concoction to wash over your taste buds. you ask the bartender. “A Now, bartenders are eager to demonstrate that Midori is more than just a one-trick pony. What is this?” But something shifted in the mid-2010s.

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Bartending Blogs You Should Read

Today's Bartender

These days, there are so many different bartending blogs & websites that cover the hospitality industry. So I’ve decided to make it easier for you and compile a list my favorite blogs & websites that I think will help you become a better bartender. It’s great for the industry and anyone who wants to be a part of it.

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Interview: Ali Reynolds Is Out Stauning

BarLifeUK

Since then, Ali has proved to me a master of making transitions – from bartender to ambassador, and now from established Old World whisky, in the form of Johnnie Walker, to upstart New World Whisky with Denmark’s Stauning Distillery. AR: My bartending career began in Nottingham where I worked at a place called brass monkey.

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25 Bartending Blogs That you should check out in 2022

Today's Bartender

25 Bartending Blogs That you should check out in 2022 These days, there are so many different bartending blogs & websites that cover the hospitality industry. So I’ve decided to make it easier for you and compile a list my favorite blogs & websites for 2022 that I think will help you become a better bartender.

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Copy Taste 2025: shining a light on Croatia’s brilliant bar scene

The Cocktail Lovers

Then I began to study hospitality at university and around the same time I started to learn about bartending. I loved it, so I took my backpack and I went to Italy to go to a bartending school called Planet One (now Campari Academy) in 2010. We were the first cocktail bar in Croatia that was owned by bartenders.

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