Australian Bartender

AUGUST 22, 2024

House of Angostura: 200 Years Bartender Carnival Sunday, 8th September 5pm to 7pm The Lobo, Basement, 209 Clarence Street, Sydney Celebrate the flair and vibrancy of the Carribean with a carnival of flavours and fun at The Lobo with a guest appearance from Rohan Massie, 2020 Australian Angostura Global Cocktail Competition winner.

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VinePair

AUGUST 2, 2024

Bartender River Gish has (almost) no idea how they wound up in Portland, Maine. What they found once they arrived was a small but mighty community of Puerto Rican bartenders and hospitality workers proudly representing their culture as they influence the city’s cocktail scene at large. I suppose you could say I ended up here by chance.”

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Bartenders can simplify this process, which makes perfect sense. With that in mind, we asked 11 bartenders what new bourbons have found a home at their watering holes. Some are new to market and some are new to the bartenders themselves, but either way, there’s plenty to love here. Great for shaken and stirred drinks, it’s 115.1

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Chilled Magazine

APRIL 17, 2024

In 2020, generational family member Ronald Dodge, Executive Vice Chair, handed the reins of the company to industry veteran David Ballew, who was subsequently named President and CEO in 2022. What is important for bartenders to know about your expressions? Big Gin was created by bartenders for bartenders.

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Chilled Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2023

What would you like bartenders to know about Dewar’s premium whisky? It stokes bartenders’ creativity and gives them the opportunity to take cocktails to new heights. As far as accolades…Since their debut, these whiskies have garnered more top accolades than any other in the category.

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Australian Bartender

OCTOBER 13, 2024

This marks the beginning of a new dialogue with the bartending community and they’re putting out a call for the very best bartenders in Australia and New Zealand to enter the ANZ regional final of the Angostura Global Cocktail Challenge. It’s not about who can post the most or promote the brand best.

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Cheers

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The new generation of bartenders draws inspiration from the distilled wine spirits timelessness, versatility and range to create Cognac cocktails, Velez says. Cognac has a long history and tradition, but still stays current by producers continuing to innovate their expressions, says bartender and cognac educator Ms. Franky Marshall.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In 2020, Old Overholt ditched chill filtration, significantly boosting the quality of the brands rye whiskeys, especially this 4-year-old Kentucky-style expression. Bottled at 50 percent ABV, the whiskey opens with welcoming herbaceousness before washing the palate with rich caramel.

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The Cocktail Lovers

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Myriam Hendrickx, Master Distiller, and Max de Smit, Global Brand Ambassador, join us to share the story of De Kuyper, what makes it so special and how it continues to inspire bartenders the world over to elevate their serves and take their cocktail creations to the next level. De Kuyper is a true icon in the drinks world.

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Taste Tequila

JANUARY 10, 2020

Last year was a busy time in the tequila world, and we expect the frenzy to keep rolling into 2020 and beyond. We added 181 new brands to our database in 2019, and we know of quite a few that are slated to launch in 2020. The diffuser as a tool isn’t in itself bad–-like anything, it depends on how you use it.)

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VinePair

APRIL 5, 2024

s House Spirits Distillery, Aviation Gin is the brainchild of distillery co-founder Christian Krogstad and bartender Ryan Magarian. growing by over 38 percent in volume from 2020 to 2022. The distillery then joined forces with bartender Ryan Magarian to formulate Aviation American Gin. Founded in 2006 at Portland, Ore.’s

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Spiritz

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In a certain way, the coronavirus-triggered pandemic in 2020 opened up a new route for the Delhibased Rakshay Dhariwal when he discovered the potential of Indiangrown wild Agave Americana and ventured into crafting Maya Pistola Agavepura (pronounced ‘pureah’), Asia’s first premium aged 100 percent agave spirit.

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Good Spirits News

MARCH 30, 2024

Thomas in the Virgin Islands and Angie Conigliaro as the bartender. By the end of 1975, the popular drink had spread throughout the islands and had also made its way to Florida via visiting bartenders who fell in love with it. In 2020, Bushwacker Spirits put Bushwacker in a ready to drink bottle for the first time in its long history.

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VinePair

JUNE 24, 2024

It was the most labor-intensive beer that we’d made,” Ramey says of the canned Michelada , first released in early 2020. After settling on a mix that met Baja brewers’ approval, Thorn released its craft Michelada in summer 2020. It remains a staple and is even sold at the nearby Legoland California resort.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Raise a Glass Since Old Fashioned Week first launched in 2020, Elijah Craig has raised over $400,000 for charitable causes. It’s a celebration of and a nod to the bartenders, barbacks, mixologists, runners, bussers, cooks, and many more service workers who make the industry what it is. Bartenders can enter now through November 1st.

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VinePair

AUGUST 7, 2024

The AFA was initially founded in 2020 by tequila transparency advocacy site Tequila Matchmaker. The Additive Free Alliance provides consumers, bartenders, and retailers objective, verifiable information they need and deserve, while giving producers like us a way to reinforce our transparency, integrity, and trust. It’s a win-win.”

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VinePair

MAY 1, 2025

Case in point: In 2020, we received just one brand and sample that wasnt bottled at the categorys minimum 40 percent ABV. Bartenders love it and weve raved about Teremanas blanco in the past. It also highlighted one clear reality: Tequila is evolving. But dont overlook its aged expressions.

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Cheers

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Ritual’s founders – David Crooch, Marcus Sakey and GG Sakey – experimented with hundreds of recipes and consulted with bartenders, chefs and beverage professionals in their mission to recreate the flavor, aroma and complexity of spirits. In fiscal year 2020, Diageo acquired a minority stake in Ritual through Distill Ventures.

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VinePair

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

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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Tales of the Cocktail

JANUARY 27, 2025

Examples of past Tales Catalysts include: Lynnette Marrero (2012 Honoree) and Ivy Mix (2014 Honoree) Founders of Speed Rack, an all-female high-speed bartending competition designed to highlight emerging women and femme-identifying talent in the cocktail industry while supporting those impacted by breast cancer.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Did age and the pandemic conspire to turn us into homebodies with bartending chops and well-stocked bars? After all, inflation’s still up, and baseline adult beverage prices have been climbing since well before 2020 — up 1 percent at restaurants in the year ended December 2023, according to Technomic.

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Bar Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This prestigious award is voted for by the bartenders on this year’s list of The World’s 50 Best Bars, who are asked to name one peer who pushes the limits of what it means to be a great bartender. His sincere advocacy for Edinburgh’s hospitality industry demonstrates the most important attributes of a true Bartenders’ Bartender.”

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Cheers

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The nature of gin, being a complex blend of herbs, spices and fruits, makes it one of the most playful and versatile spirits in our bartenders’ toolkit. Aviation American gin, founded in 2006, got a boost when actor, writer and producer Ryan Reynolds acquired an ownership interest in the brand in 2018; Aviation was acquired by Diageo in 2020.

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A Bar Above

DECEMBER 21, 2023

However, as reflected in the 2020 Cocktail Trends Report , the #1 trend is low/no alcohol drinks. Photo via Unsplash MAKE AND BUY INGREDIENTS FOR MOCKTAILS AND MORE NON-ALCOHOLIC COCKTAIL RECIPES This is what craft cocktail enthusiasts and bartenders do most of the time with craft cocktails. Not very appealing options.

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VinePair

MARCH 18, 2024

It’s easy to look at sales data from 2020 and 2021 versus current sales data and claim that alcohol is doomed, but this effectively ignores the enormous variable that impacted those increased sales in the first place: a pandemic. Adam is reading: We Asked 6 Bartenders: What’s the Most Overrated Bourbon? Is That Such a Bad Thing?

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Cheers

MARCH 12, 2024

After 2020, I was quite relieved that that was not the path my career took. Especially in the bartending community. How did you end up in bourbon? My own journey started in 2023. Working in bourbon wasn’t my end goal. I went to school to be a biologist. I wanted to be an infectious disease expert. I needed a job when I graduated.

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VinePair

JULY 28, 2024

Olmeca Altos Founded by bartenders Henry Besant and Dre Masso, Olmeca Altos is beloved within the industry, so it’s no surprise that it’s one of the world’s best-selling tequilas. Despite case sales growing by 1 million year-over-year from 2020 to 2022, things took a dip by 4.8 Hornitos and El Jimador also reported losses of 6.6

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Bar Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2024

Taking place on 18th March , the competition will showcase the creativity and passion of the UK’s leading bartenders. Photography: www.themakers.co.uk

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Bartender.com

MARCH 12, 2024

Perched on the 4th floor of a Residence Inn/Courtyard Marriott, Little Rituals—conceptualized by acclaimed bartenders Aaron DeFeo & Ross Simon in 2018 and opened in 2019—has set a standard in the Southwest for innovative cocktails and an outstanding, yet relaxed style of team service.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 17, 2024

There, Reiner’s mentorship fostered a supporting cast of bartenders who would go on to create great things on their own, including Lynnette Marrero, Katie Stipe, Toby Maloney, Giuseppe González, Tonia Guffey, and Phil Ward. Macy no longer tends bar there, but remains a creative consultant.

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VinePair

JUNE 3, 2024

Table Of Contents The Best Classic Margarita Recipes The Best Spicy Margarita Recipes The Best Fruity Margarita Recipes The Best Bartender Margarita Recipes The Best Classic Margarita Recipes The Margarita It doesn’t get much more classic than the OG Margarita recipe.

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Dry Atlas

JULY 17, 2024

and was one of the nation’s top bartenders. He published his first book, Spirits, Sugar, Water, Bitters: How the Cocktail Conquered the World, in 2019, and was named 2020 “Author of the Year” at the Nightclub & Bar Show Awards. Derek is also a celebrated author.

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The Whiskey Wash

MARCH 25, 2024

Beginning with a 4 Year Old Bourbon in 2019 , another bourbon and a 4 year old rye in 2020 , 2024 marks the 5th year of annual Vertical releases from the brand. The whiskey was created in collaboration with Douglas McMaster – owner of the restaurant Silo London – and cocktail bartender, Ryan Chetiyawardana (A.K.A

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The Cocktail Lovers

AUGUST 16, 2024

Just ask any of the bartenders who have participated in The House of Suntory DOJO programme over the years. Since its launch in 2020 this exclusive brand partnership and development series has more than delivered on its aim to impart the knowledge, wisdom and expertise behind Japanese bartending to appreciative bartenders in the UK.

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A Bar Above

JUNE 2, 2024

When the pandemic craziness hit in 2020 and creating great cocktails at home suddenly became all the rage, the sales of Chartreuse skyrocketed. If they do, head on over and have your bartender shake you up an Alaska cocktail. We’re talking about global sales hitting over $30 million in 2022 (US dollars).

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

If you talk to bartenders, they are more in favor of bourbon and rye whiskey, because those are the products they usually work with. When the Austrian bartender Thomas Domenig was studying for a spirits certificate, he had serious trouble finding information about American whiskey in German.

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VinePair

JANUARY 7, 2024

was founded in 2021 in collaboration with renowned NYC bartender Ivy Mix. There are four distilled expressions in its lineup, and rather than mimicking existing spirits, each was created to give bartenders a new spectrum of flavor to work with. While unsweetened, the drink’s fresh flavors are spot on with a straight-up Mojito.

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