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Meet the Judges of the Craft the Fun Cocktail Challenge

Chilled Magazine

This year’s judges include renowned spirits specialist Lynn House, author and bartender extraordinaire Jeffery Morgenthaler and award-winning mixologist Christine Wiseman. With a skilled eye for emerging trends, Lynn is not only an amazing mixologist but also a trendsetter, shaping the future of cocktail culture.

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How Black Bartenders and Restaurateurs Are Creating More Blended Fusion Bar Programs

VinePair

But now, more bar programs and bartenders in the United States are finally exploring the vastness of Black drinking culture by blending its influences, one cup at a time. But acclaimed bartender and beverage educator Tiffanie Barriere (a.k.a.

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Celebrating 15 years of Baba Au Rum with 15 questions for founder Thanos Prunarus

The Cocktail Lovers

A key bar in putting Athens on the map for contemporary cocktail culture it’s picked up its fair share of awards, most recently taking home the World’s Best Spirit Selection presented by Tales of the Cocktail Foundation in 2024, and is a regular on the World’s 50 Best bars list, currently sitting at No.

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It’s Everywhere, It’s So Julia — Midori Is Brat

VinePair

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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Exciting, Affordable, and Walkable, Athens Has the Most Exciting Cocktail Scene In Europe Right Now

VinePair

The capital of Greece — which has one of the most exciting, accessible, affordable, and just plain fun cocktail cultures in the world right now — not only boasts a vibrant cocktail scene, but also one of the most compact, despite doubling in size over the last two years. This is not a city for studied, quiet cocktail dens.

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Can Tokyo Reclaim Its Crown as Asia’s Best Cocktail City?

VinePair

The early wave of modern Tokyo cocktail bars defined the distinctive style of drink preparation and service known as Japanese bartending — and the type of establishments in which it could be found — while pushing forward the idea of a thriving cocktail culture from within an Asian metropolis.

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From the Alabama Slammer to the White Russian: Were Any Good Cocktails Created in the ’70s?

VinePair

what 25-year bartending vet Toby Maloney calls the easy answer. and a longtime bartender. Of course, what we’ve also learned from the era of the extra Martini, unicorn latte, and increasingly absurdist Bloody Mary is that there are also times in history when we drinkers explicitly reject serious cocktail culture.

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