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Meet the Winner and Finalists of VinePair’s Best New Bartender Competition

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Fuller shook up a tiki cocktail crafted with a blend of three rums , tahini-infused amaro , espresso liqueur, and a raspberry Demerara syrup. In November 2021, she landed a job at Avanzare , an Italian restaurant in Springfield, Mo., From there, Pedraza quickly cut her teeth in the industry.

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When Did ‘Willy Wonka’ Become the Booze World’s Favorite Cliché?

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Credit: The Rum Lab Up north in Canada, Devine Distillery & Winery is the “Willy Wonka of spirits.” In 2021, Delish claimed “The Bombay Sapphire Distillery is like Willy Wonka’s factory for adults.” And yes, rum was somewhere, somehow being produced there. There are a lot of foolish writers out there, I guess.

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The Top 10 Rums of 2023

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Top shelf rum is becoming easier and easier to find — and harder and harder to pin down into a cohesive top 10 list. Sadly, many of the price tags on these rums are fairly luxe — with bottles nearly 30 years old, single barrels, one-off experiments, or all of the above. 500 [ BUY IT NOW FROM RESERVEBAR ] 3. 99 proof. $75

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Next Wave Awards Bartender of the Year: Garret Richard

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“I am constantly looking for the intention of a classic drink and investigating what might have changed over time and how we can get back to that intention,” says Garret Richard, chief cocktail officer at Brooklyn’s Sunken Harbor Club since it opened in 2021. A year later he started a “Tiki Takeover” series at Prime Meats in Brooklyn.

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Review: Hampden “The Maverick” Rum

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The rum is a blend of three marks from three different vintages that “encapsulates the depth and authentic spirit of Hampden Estate”: 50% HGML 2018 40% LFCH 2020 10% C<>H 2021 Here’s a look at our small sample. His birthday of May 13, 2024, is noted on the front of the label. 118 proof.

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Meet Rumba’s House Rum Blend for 2023

Cocktail Wonk

Back in 2021, Jennifer Akin, the then-general manager of Seattle’s Rumba, graciously agreed to share the recipe for Rumba’s house. The post Meet Rumba’s House Rum Blend for 2023 appeared first on Cocktail Wonk.

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The Sneaky Ingredients Making Your Cocktail More Expensive

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When the Carthusian monks began limiting production of green Chartreuse in 2021, they sparked a shortage that somewhat gave them the final say on how many Last Words a bar could crank out. Service Bar was grappling with the effects of the growing shortage of Wray & Nephew Overproof Rum. In Washington, D.C., Its eventual solution?

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