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The Basic Well Drink Is Your Bartender’s New Favorite Playground

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Gin & Tonic. juice boxes and thought he could showcase that flavor amid the neutral platform of vodka and soda, though he began by conceptualizing the drink as a Highball. When I was telling him about the drinks for the opening menu, at the time I was just going to call it a Guava Highball,” Jimenez says. Rum & Coke.

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The 50 Best Spirits of 2023

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acquired two unique Coffey stills from Scotland, and has since honored their use with a line of fine whisky, gin , and vodka. Bombay Sapphire Premier Cru Bombay Sapphire played a large role in taking London Dry gin mainstream by dialing down the juniper and amping up clean, fresh botanicals through vapor infusion. At the V.S.

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Creating Culinary Cocktails With Schmuck’s Juliette Larrouy and Moe Aljaff

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From Dish to Drink Culinary-inspired cocktails are not a new trend — just look to modern classics like Don Lee’s “ Benton’s Old Fashioned ” that served breakfast in a glass and launched the fat washing technique all the way back in 2007, at PDT, or his buttered popcorn rum and Coke the “Cinema Highball” from the same era. I left it.

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Mastering Extracts and Essences With Sunken Harbor Club’s Garret Richard

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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. 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. Briefly stir to combine.

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Does Hillstone Serve New York’s Best Martini?

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Dubbed the Martini Our Way , it comprises two-and-a-half ounces of Old Raj gin, a half-ounce of fino sherry vermouth, and four dashes of orange bitters. Most notably of all, the Martini arrives with a highball sidecar of the ice used to mix the drink plus an additional slug of vermouth, all topped with Spanish mineral water.

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