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

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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. Augustine, Fla., It’s fun and nostalgic.

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The 50 Best Spirits of 2023

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El Nacimiento Tequila Reposado Tequila regulations dictate that reposados can spend up to 364 days in oak, and all too often the aging vessel dominates the final spirit. Not only apt for sipping, mix with fizzy water for a classy highball when session drinks are on the agenda. That said, any tequila bottled above the U.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. Wildly refreshing on its own and excellent bolstered with tequila, I hope you’ll give it a try at home and use this format for further extract production.