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Remembering Steven Liles

Imbibe Magazine

I stopped drinking for a few years in my 20s, and then…I’m a history fan and was reading a lot of California history, and got into Prohibition stuff—so I decided that instead of drinking a bottle of Jack Daniel’s, I would have a Martini or two. I went to bartending school.)

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25 Bartending Blogs That you should check out in 2022

Today's Bartender

Their articles are always fun and interesting to read and they cover a lot about bartending too. Favorite Post : I Went to Bartending School & Here’s What Happened 5. Stir & Strain Stir & Strain isn’t a bartending blog. Favorite Post : The Most Unbiased Account of Bartending School I’ve Ever Read.

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Colin Asare-Appiah Is Reshaping the Bar World

Imbibe Magazine

One day, the owner quizzed him, asking him where a certain bottle of liquor was from. The owner then told him to polish all the bottles behind the bar. Newly curious as to what he might be missing, he began to look at the back labels as he cleaned each bottle, absorbing each spirits backstory. I just fell in love, he recalls.

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