Bartender High Volume Highball 
VinePair
JUNE 6, 2025
To learn about some of the most controversial cocktail opinions held by the pros, we asked bartenders from across the country for their hottest cocktail takes. Of course, if a bartender calls out something you personally enjoy, that does not make it bad — the best thing about hot takes is that they’re often meant to be disagreed with.
VinePair
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
After conquering low-lift highballs and easy equal-parts concoctions, most aspiring bartenders are eager to step into the big leagues and attempt more intricate cocktails. How much you slightly alter the volume of the three primary spirits — or more consequentially, the Benedictine — will result in a very different cocktail each time.”
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VinePair
MARCH 19, 2024
Their efforts produced a space that can be described as an upscale dive bar: an of-the-moment concept that’s meant to be a step above a sticky-floored dive offering beers and stale pretzels but a notch below a high-volume joint slinging highfalutin $20 cocktails. We as bartenders don’t really have to educate anymore.
VinePair
JUNE 26, 2024
Who needs low-ABV cocktails when you have slow-ass bartenders? This question, shared as a cheeky joke in an Instagram story, became a viral moment for Erick Castro , the legendary bartender behind San Diego’s Raised By Wolves and Gilly’s House of Cocktails , and host of the award-winning Bartender at Large podcast.
VinePair
MARCH 13, 2024
Also on offer may be a frozen cocktail or two, draft cocktails, a fat-washed cocktail, a clarified milk punch, a Boilermaker, a fancified whiskey highball, something with shochu, and a spritz. And also people are realizing that at those high-end cocktail bars, those cocktails are very, very expensive and the margins are very tight.
Imbibe Magazine
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Your next drink lives in the minds of the two brilliant bartenders behind the bar. Beau du Bois, award-winning bartender and Puesto’s vice president of bar and spirits, vapor-infuses tequila with habanero to retain all of the pepper’s flavor without any of the heat. It’s mixology magic.
VinePair
APRIL 14, 2025
Jiggers are an essential part of any bartenders arsenal. But in high-volume sports bars and dives where the cocktail menu doesnt stretch beyond two- to three-ingredient highballs, many bartenders resort to free pouring (with a speed pourer attached to a bottle) to maximize efficiency. Its not four and then cut.
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