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

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Rum & Coke. 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. Gin & Tonic.

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The 50 Best Spirits of 2023

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Surin Rum Clairin Mezcal drinker, meet clairin! Not only apt for sipping, mix with fizzy water for a classy highball when session drinks are on the agenda. Rhumb Runner Fernandes Trinidad 18 Year Old Rum For years, many have hyped aged rum as the “next big thing,” and certain brands have been dubbed the “Pappy” of the category.

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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. We chatted rum styles and tropical drinks and I was immediately a fan — he wore his love for, and knowledge of, drinks and spirits on his sleeve then as he does to this day.