Imbibe Magazine

JULY 9, 2024

We tapped sommeliers, restauranteurs, and wine shop owners to get their recommendation for bottles to try right now. ” says Daryl Coke, wine director for Ernie’s Wine Bar in New York City. Cava now on board to improve standards, there’s never been a better time to get reacquainted with the category.

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Australian Bartender

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Bar Tilda Martini Experience Photography: Steven Woodburn & Jason Loucas It was Sydney’s first ever five-star hotel, and now the Sofitel Sydney Wentworth, has reopened after a massive $70 million renovation. There are 436 brand-new rooms, more than 15 refreshed event spaces and of course, bars and restaurants.

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Cheers

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Within the same hotel brand, each property has a unique restaurant and/or bar concept, often multiple within the same property. Each program focuses on four key venues: Bars, Restaurants, Grab & Go and Catering & Events. The Peacock Alley lobby bar at Hilton’s Waldorf Astoria hotel in Orlando, FL.

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A Bar Above

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

We’re super excited to announce the addition of a couple new bar items & color lines to our ever-expanding lineup of bar accessories. Copyright A Bar Above Stainless & Gold Wine Bottle Opener Are you in the market for a sleek, stylish wine bottle opener ? But now… they’re even prettier!

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VinePair

JULY 10, 2024

Making beer has long been the proving ground for innovative technologies, from the earliest mercury thermometer and first saccharometer through the introduction of the cylindroconical fermenter and on to the modern hop torpedo. If you put 10 beers in front of them and one or two are molecular, they will not be able to pinpoint them.”

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VinePair

JUNE 6, 2025

Kate Gerwin, owner, Happy Accidents Bar , Albuquerque, N.M. While clarification is a valuable technique, it’s increasingly become the default across many bar programs, resulting in menus where nearly every cocktail is pre-batched. In the process, some of the craft and connection behind the bar experience can get lost.

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Imbibe Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2024

On a bustling evening at New York’s Contento , a restaurant celebrated for its globe-trotting fare and wine program, head sommelier Abe Zarate faces a challenge from diners eager to try a wine similar to the light, fruity profiles of Pinot Noir or Beaujolais. “I I have just the thing,” Zarate says, excited to introduce a unique find.

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VinePair

AUGUST 12, 2024

From German Wegbier , open-container beer drunk on Berlin streets and en route to Bavarian biergarten, to cross-continent rail journeys, Europeans love to combine the necessity of travel with the pleasure of a good glass. But it’s a vital part of the culture in Germany, where 84 percent of beer is consumed packaged rather than on draft.

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VinePair

JULY 9, 2024

No one is more attuned to the changes than Aubrey Bailey and Taylor Domin, the owners of Cadet Wine and Beer. As it celebrates 10 years, VinePair looks at how Cadet became not just a destination wine bar, but also built a close-knit community of winemakers. Instead, wine (and beer) are the foundations on which it was built.

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VinePair

AUGUST 27, 2024

Although the beer and spirits industries have long come to terms with this reality, wine is still attached to this unsubstantiated belief that a glass or two a day is good for your health. Everybody knows that sugar, fast food, and red meat aren’t good for you, yet we still consume them. The same goes for alcohol. Tune in for more.

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Bar Magazine

JUNE 26, 2024

The eighth edition of the London Wine, Spirits, and Beer Competitions proudly introduces its inaugural Regional and Category Ambassadors Program for the 2025 edition. His extensive experience includes leading the team at the Mandarin Bar, Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park London, and working with top professionals in Barcelona.

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Imbibe Magazine

JUNE 11, 2024

When the team behind Oxalis , a Michelin-starred restaurant in Brooklyn, opened Clinton Hill wine bar Place des Fêtes in 2022, beverage director Piper Kristensen knew exactly what he didn’t want to do: re-create the same-old, same-old bistronomy-style French-heavy list. It can go Blanc Noir, Champagne style, sparkling.”

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VinePair

APRIL 11, 2025

When the VinePair team isnt busy working at HQ, were in the field doing what we do best: scoping out the best cocktails, wine, and beer in the five boroughs. This bright, sprawling space located on a buzzy corner of the West Village that used to house Holiday Bar evokes a chic, candle-lit dinner party on the French Riviera.

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Good Spirits News

JULY 15, 2024

All The Bitter makes classically inspired cocktail bitters using organic, functional ingredients free of alcohol, full of flavor, and designed by Michelin-trained sommeliers. Equally at home in full strength, low- and no-alcohol cocktails, their bitters also make a great addition to sparkling water, tonic, ginger ale, tea, and beer.

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PubClub

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Beer lovers raise a pilsner at Pilsner Urquell The Original Beer Experience Prague. Photo: Pilsner Urquell The Original Beer Experience One of the fun things for PubClubbers to do when traveling is to take brewery tours. A Beer Sommelier Dinner, pairing gourmet meals with Pilsner Urquell (and unfiltered in September!).

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VinePair

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Zach is reading: Has the Title Master Sommelier Become a Paradox? After a year of declining visitations, the trio speculate that the region as a whole was too quick to assume the post-pandemic landscape and model would be the new normal, instead of a strange outlier. Tune in for more.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Though not every chef, sommelier, brewer, and winemaker who breaks bread at Charleston Wine + Food is a South Carolina native, the Lowcountry is dutifully represented, and the others appreciate the recognition the state has carved out for itself in the food and drink realm. Tickets are now on sale for the 2024 Charleston Wine + Food Festival.

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Cheers

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The CIA’s beers are sold in all of its restaurants and distributed by CBG from Westchester County up to Lake Placid, NY. A new generation of beverage pros The CIA has been seeing the traditionally back-of-house operations moving toward the bar. 5-Day program every winter.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 10, 2023

And, if nothing else, all of our picks look handsome on any bookshelf or bar cart. The Encyclopedia of Cocktails: The People, Bars & Drinks, with More Than 100 Recipes Robert Simonson, Ten Speed Press, October 2023. Here are some of the best drinks books to gift in 2023. Norton & Company, May 2023.

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Cheers

JANUARY 2, 2024

Its newest ship, Norwegian Prima launched in 2022 and includes the brand’s first sustainable cocktail bar. The Metropolitan Bar offers responsibly crafted zero-waste cocktails prepared with surplus ingredients, a fully sustainable spirits menu and biodynamic wines. Hotel Las Torres recently opened the first sustainable bar in Chile.

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Spiritz

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Another hotly contested category was the Bar-raiser of the Year, which focused on individuals who have pushed the boundaries of innovation and consumer engagement. The Product Debut of the Year category showcased nominees across different segments such as spirits, wines, and beers.

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VinePair

MAY 31, 2024

Beer and wine flow as cheerful conversation echoes well into the night, and old-timers and youngsters alike eat, drink, and dance the evening away to wildly suggestive “ Pimba ” tunes from back in the day. All that richness needs a counterpoint, and of course there’s beer aplenty. Everyone is waiting for June. It’s inevitable.

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Bar Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

Key highlights include the revitalised masterclass schedule, the Sommelier Wine Awards (SWA) results ceremony, The Great Imbibe Live Shake Off competition and the new much-anticipated Campo de Agave theatre, an oasis of agave plant-based spirits masterclasses hosted by Club Cantina. For additional details and to get your ticket, visit [link].

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Bar Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The 7th annual London Spirits , Wine , and Beer Competitions will take place in 2024, and brands looking to get international credibility and product feedback from leading trade buyers, are encouraged to submit their products now. appeared first on Bar Magazine. International and Domestic Submission deadline is February 22.

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VinePair

JULY 18, 2024

Fine wine also can and increasingly is being profitably sold in the land of where rum and beer reign supreme. On Grand Cayman, sommelier Christian Esser has owned and directed wine education center Wineschool3 for 16 years and, tellingly, now co-owns the new wine bar Le Petit Bar Cayman.

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Bar Magazine

JULY 1, 2024

The London Competitions prides itself on having award winning buyers, bartenders, master sommeliers, masters of wine and some of the most influential people working in the drinks industry. Then our beers were sent this year and we have got a lot of attention as we received one gold and 3 silvers. Quality score: marked out of 100.

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Dry Atlas

AUGUST 28, 2024

They also reveal how they’re winning over both skeptics and sommeliers, while expanding the accessibility of wine for those who wish to enjoy the experience without the effects of alcohol. We observed what had happened on the beer front where, four or five years ago, high quality non-alcoholic beers started to emerge.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

That’s why we’re once again rounding up the best drinks gifts of the year, and we’ve got ideas covered for anyone who enjoys cocktails, wine, beer, coffee, or tea. You’ll see a portable keg, bar cart essentials, and cheeseboard-themed home decor. So, without further delay, these are VinePair’s best holiday gifts of 2023.

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Bar Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2024

The Ambassadors selected are different personalities ranging from Masters of Wine, Master Sommeliers, Head Bartenders, Mixologisits, Instagramers, YouTubers and Writers. To enter the London Wine Competition click here, for London Spirits Competition click here, and for the London Beer Competition click here.

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PubClub

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Centurion Network’s First Whiskey Bar 1 Celebrating the rich history of American whiskey, The Reserve by American Express is the first dedicated whiskey bar in a Centurion Lounge. The bar offers a modern take on a classic whiskey bar with dark finishes and caramel leather seating and connects to an outdoor lounge area.

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Imbibe Magazine

JUNE 11, 2025

As Bryan Winslow worked to open a brewery in Austin, Texas, he faced a conundrum common to contemporary beer: What could he brew to stand out in a crowded market? Elmo Brewing founder Bryan Winslow and Carl kölsch, the brewery’s flagship beer. We hear a lot of people say, ‘I don’t really drink beer, but I drink KSA,’” Dobkin says.

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VinePair

MARCH 7, 2025

The Only the Somm Can Touch the Wine Rule Plenty of people have been frustrated by restaurants where ONLY the sommelier is allowed to talk about, open, or even look at the wine. Case in point: I was at a natural wine bar when someone at the next table asked if they had a California Chardonnay. At a wine bar! Lets dig in.

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Imbibe Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

La Ruina Built out in the historic (and long neglected) Robitzsch Brothers Building in San Antonio’s eastside, this cocktail spot from local bar veterans opened in the fall of 2022 and leans into its namesake vibes reminiscent of places like Old Havana and Colón, Panama. a new project from sommelier-turned-vigneron Rajat Parr.

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VinePair

JANUARY 3, 2024

Credit: Bar Miller Partners Jeff Miller and Provenzano continue to push boundaries with their latest project, an eight-seat tasting counter called Bar Miller. While it’s commonplace in New York to overnight fish from Japan, Bar Miller has curated an entirely local 15-course omakase menu. because there’s room to innovate.”

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VinePair

MARCH 21, 2024

“Thou Shalt Enjoy a Shift Drink” might as well have been etched on a golden plaque, affixed to the inside surface of every kitchen door, locker room, wine cellar, chef’s office, and speed rail at any restaurant or bar on Earth. Back in the day, it was two shots and a beer as my first post-shift drink,” he says.

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Today's Bartender

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

1) A Bar Above Founded by the wonderful couple Chris & Julia Tunstall, A Bar Above is easily one of the best resources out there for bartenders. From learning how to break into the industry to becoming a barback, to eventually managing/running your own bar, A Bar Above has got you covered. Let’s get to it.

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Today's Bartender

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Jeffrey Morgenthaler Author of ‘The Bar Book,’ Jeffrey Morgenthaler is one of the most influential bartenders/bar managers/owners in the industry. Punch Punch is a James Beard Award-winning online magazine that writes about wine, spirits, beer, and cocktails. Favorite Post : 5 Essential Soft Skills for Great Bar Managers 7.

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