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Building a Purpose-Driven Backbar with Nightmoves’ Orlando Franklin McCray

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The day I graduated from college I was fortunate enough to already be working my dream job, bartending at New York’s Booker and Dax. From Backbar to Cocktail Beyond the spirits list handed to guests, backbar choices become the palette of flavors from which bartenders create drinks. So how does one build a purpose-driven backbar?

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This Is Not a Painkiller

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One of the many great things about home bartending is that you can make drinks any way you want. You want a plum brandy Negroni topped with diet orange soda? The legal drama surrounding the Painkiller is perhaps less exciting than the drugs-and-nightclubs saga of Florida’s Bushwacker, another Piña Colada-esque drink.

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The 25 Most Important Tequilas of the Last 25 Years

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Essentially selling it door-to-door for over a decade, it would take until 2013 or so for luxury bars, restaurants, and nightclubs to latch onto it. And, oh boy, did it take off, with professional athletes, rap stars, actors, influencers, and other nightclub-going boldfaces backing it.