Chilled Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2024

Our judging panel comprised of working bartenders, bar managers, bar owners, bar consultants and, more importantly, top influential Chilled 100 members with on-premise buying power, who are ready to judge, rate, and award your spirit’s brand. Enter you brand today to get liquid to lips of these highly influential bartenders!

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Chilled Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Photos by Paul Chang Whether you are a seasoned bartender or a curious enthusiast, join us as we raise our spirits to the creative union of ingredients and technique and delve into what makes a great drink unforgettable. In 2000, I started in the industry as a bartender at Kirin’s Hartland Bar in Tokyo.

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VinePair

APRIL 9, 2025

Rather than ordering a classic like a Gin & Tonic or Old Fashioned and asking the bartender to make it strong , there are a few particularly powerful cocktails that pack a punch all on their own. The recipe calls for light rum, dark rum, and overproof rum, not to mention apricot brandy and grenadine.

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Cheers

JANUARY 10, 2024

Here are some warming brandy cocktails to brighten up the season’s chill. Print Bull’s Eye Rose Course Drinks Keyword amaro, Angostura bitters, apple brandy, Grenadine, lemon, Luxardo maraschino liqueur, plum vinegar, rye Ingredients 1 oz. Laird’s Apple Brandy ½ oz.

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Chilled Magazine

MAY 9, 2024

Christoph Dornemann, Head Bartender at Arnaud’s French 75 Bar in New Orleans, Louisiana, began his career in the industry waiting tables at a Vietnamese restaurant in 2010. He progressed to the back of the house and worked as an expeditor, pastry chef, and then moved onto food preparation at a catering company.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

It achieves this profile by straying from the genres usual path, swapping out heavy syrups and layered rum blends for pineapple, mint, peach brandy , and, of course, a little rum. Few tiki and tropical drinks are as light, herbal, and dangerously sessionable as the Missionarys Downfall.

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Chilled Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

With such an exceptional pedigree of natural and cosmopolitan character for over two centuries, it takes a world-class bartender of extraordinary talent to build on and enhance the cultural cachet of Saratoga Springs. How long have you been in the Mixology / Bartending world & where did you get your start? of white rum 3/4 oz.

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Chilled Magazine

APRIL 17, 2024

Founders Albert Peters, Edwin Pooley, and Edgar McClain began making fruit wine and brandies from the abundance of fruit in the region, taking only a brief hiatus to make industrial alcohol for the war effort. What is important for bartenders to know about your expressions? Big Gin was created by bartenders for bartenders.

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VinePair

APRIL 15, 2025

The combination of white rum , peach brandy, honey syrup, lime juice, pineapple chunks, and mint leaves needs to be blended together, meaning Timothy would have had a reason to use the obnoxiously loud appliance. It just all would have been so perfect.

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Cheers

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The cruise line also introduced its exclusive Rum Ambassador programming on all Caribbean sailings, developed in collaboration with beverage experts and historians David Wondrich and Jeff “Beachbum” Berry. El Presidente: Planteray 3 Star rum, vermouth blanc, dashes of orange Curaçao, grenadine.

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Cocktails with Suderman

DECEMBER 20, 2023

For a high-proof nog, we used Wild Turkey 101 bourbon and Smith & Cross Jamaican rum. For a lower-proof mix, we used E&J brandy mixed with Appleton Estate signature rum. Cocktails With Suderman is the home bartender’s guide, with tips, tricks, techniques, anecdotes, and recipes. So many recipes!

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Skilled bartenders can identify these singular properties and use them to their advantage. To find out, we asked 14 bartenders what vodka they prefer to use in their drinks. Nick Jackson, head bartender, The Rum House , NYC “My recommendation has to be Haku Vodka. But which brands are beloved behind the bar?

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Bar Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Stravinsky (Barcelona, Spain), Sasha Wijidessa of Fura (Singapore, Singapore), Emanuel Minez of Red Frog (Lisbon, Portugal), John Stirling owner of Arbikie Distillery and Global Brand Ambassador of Torres Brandy Brand, Cristbal Cofr and moderated by Juliane Caillouette-Noble.

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Cocktails with Suderman

OCTOBER 27, 2023

If I had to pick a single type of liquor that’s most underrated by home bartenders, it would be brandy — and American apple brandy in particular. Apple brandy was a favorite of America’s Founders, and you can still buy something branded as George Washington’s Apple Brandy from the Mount Vernon distillery.

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Cheers

JUNE 26, 2024

Print Sunset Paradise Course Drinks Keyword butterfly pea flower tea, cranberry, lime, orange juice, peach brandy, tequila, Triple sec, vodka Ingredients ½ oz. Peach brandy 1 ½ oz. Notes Oscar Garcia, lead bartender at seafood grill Corvina in Boca Raton, FL, created this recipe.

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Cocktails with Suderman

JANUARY 10, 2024

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the Brandy Alexander , a three-ingredient classic that combines brandy with heavy cream and creme de cacao, for a milky, chocolate, dessert-like cocktail confection. But the Brandy Alexander wasn’t always a Brandy Alexander. What’s the right rum? So many recipes!

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Cocktails with Suderman

JANUARY 7, 2025

Do you have a question about cocktails, bars, booze, home bartending, or something else related to the topics discussed in this newsletter? One of my most strongly held cocktail-related views is that Cynar is the most versatile bottle in a home bartender’s arsenal. Short answer: Anything you want.) So many recipes!

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Cocktails with Suderman

AUGUST 16, 2024

This year, for example, we have looked at a handful of drinks involving apricot booze — both liqueur and brandy. Cocktails With Suderman is the home bartender’s guide, with tips, tricks, techniques, anecdotes, opinions, and recipes. The themed approach has several advantages. So many recipes!

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Cocktails with Suderman

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This is a story about ordering drinks off menu, and specifically figuring out how to quickly, efficiently, and precisely describe the sort of drink you want to a bartender. Cocktails With Suderman is the home bartender’s guide, with tips, tricks, opinions, anecdotes, and recipes. What Can I Get You?

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The Whiskey Wash

JULY 21, 2024

When the Navy was conducting voyages in the Caribbean in the 16 and 1700s they found themselves a plentiful supply of rum. With a much longer shelf life than beer, rum became the sailors’ first choice of tipple. The rum and lemon/lime juice concoction became known as ‘Grog’. Essentially, hungover. This, of course, is disputed.

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VinePair

AUGUST 5, 2024

The Mule also ranked 10th on Drinks International’s annual compendium of the 50 most popular cocktails worldwide according to bartenders, behind the auspicious likes of the Negroni , Old Fashioned , Daiquiri , Espresso and Dry Martinis , and the Whiskey Sour. This doesn’t always spring from the minds of barkeeps, either. “I percent from $7.38

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VinePair

JUNE 20, 2024

The spirit-and-soda base provides a blank canvas for mixologists and at-home bartenders to easily create more complex libations. dive bars, where many bartenders garnish theirs with a slice of lemon instead of the American-preferred lime. When it comes to the Highball, the world is your oyster.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 13, 2023

That said, it’s just as simple to produce a perfect punch, and we’re here to provide you with the centuries-old, bartender-approved template to help you do so. Lime and grapefruit pair well with aged rum and light spirits, while lemon generally finds good company with dark spirits like brandy , bourbon , and rye.

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Cocktails with Suderman

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Specifically, a Manhattan with a split base of aged rum and rye. Cocktails With Suderman is the home bartender’s guide, with tips, tricks, techniques, opinions, anecdotes, and recipes. I use El Dorado 8, an aged demerara rum with an oaky, nutty, rich flavor profile, which helps offset the tangy-sweet cranberry sauce.

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Cocktails with Suderman

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In previous years, this newsletter has always featured a Thanksgiving cocktail: First, there was the Thanksgiving Sour , a basic brandy sour made holiday friendly by an infusion of apple, cinnamon, and other spices. Cocktails With Suderman is the home bartender’s guide, with tips, tricks, techniques, opinions, anecdotes, and recipes.

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VinePair

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Instead, there is a small handful of expressions that bartenders gravitate toward based on their individual preferences, whether they lean sweet, spicy, or somewhere in between. 6 Legendary late bartender Gary “Gaz” Regan brought his own orange bitters to the market in 2005. Regans’ Orange Bitters No. Breaux in 2012.

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Good Spirits News

AUGUST 2, 2024

It’s sold exclusively in bartender-friendly 1L-sized bottles. SRP $79) Planteray Mister Fogg Navy Rum This limited edition navy rum was created by Maison Ferrand owner and Planteray Master Blender Alexandre Gabriel. The rums then were transported to France via ship where they were double aged in used oak barrels. (SRP

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Depth and Complexity In London’s cocktail world, fruit distillates in general are “mega trendy,” according to Alex Kratena, former head bartender at Artesian and the co-founder of both Tayēr + Elementary and Muyu liqueurs. Credit: Swizzle Rum Bar & Drinkery That said, less is often more, he notes. more aggressively.”

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Barina Craft

JANUARY 1, 2025

History Of The Duck Fart Cocktail A 70 year old woman, name unknown, walks into a bar* in Anchorage, Alaska in December, 1987 and asks bartender Dave Schmidt for a shot of tequila, followed by a B-52 and then a Grasshopper.* Eskimo - vanilla ice cream, curacao, maraschino liqueur and brandy. One walks into a bar. The other one ducks!

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VinePair

APRIL 1, 2024

Spirits Awards 2024 Best Vodka: Rocket Vodka Founder Dariusz Paczuski created Rocket Vodka in homage to his father, a hobbyist distiller who created brandy using a makeshift still and apples from his backyard in Drammen, Norway. Best Rum: Ten to One Caribbean White Rum This exceptional rum from Ten To One has won L.A.

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VinePair

JANUARY 9, 2024

A colleague, my wife, and I were leaving Baba au Rum, one of the oldest of the new breed of craft cocktail bars in Athens, with the idea of heading to The Bar in Front of the Bar, another leading saloon. Between Baba au Rum and The Bar in Front of the Bar, we had traveled all of 400 meters. We weren’t adrift for long, though.

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Australian Bartender

JUNE 20, 2024

. “Obviously with how difficult it is to ferment grain products, they generally need a little bit of help with the more complex sugars, as opposed to rum which is straight sugar or fruit products which have yeast existing on the skin so they just do it themselves.”

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Cocktails with Suderman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

There’s the Boulevardier (a Negroni with whiskey), the Kingston Negroni (a Negroni with dark, high-proof Jamaican rum), and the Mezcal Negroni (a Negroni with, you guessed it, mezcal). The only other apple brandy Negroni I can think of off he top of my head is the one I put together earlier this year , with Benedictine.)

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Mr. Boston Bartender's Guide

JULY 17, 2023

It’s made with hot water, honey, lemon juice, and a splash of whiskey, rum, or brandy. Ingredients 1 cup hot water 1 tbsp honey 1 tbsp lemon juice 1 ½ oz whiskey, rum, or brandy 1 cinnamon stick (optional) Instructions In a heatproof glass or mug, combine the hot water, honey, and lemon juice. Serve and enjoy!

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The Bartender Company

MAY 5, 2022

Professional bartenders know that sour cocktails are some of the most flavorful – yet difficult to truly master – alcoholic beverages. Bartenders must carefully balance the amounts of ingredients to achieve a cocktail that is tangy, tart, and sweet all at once. Add lemon juice, simple syrup, and an egg white to a shaker.

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Australian Bartender

MAY 8, 2025

Recommended core spirits for your rail These spirits cover 90 per cent of classic cocktails and mixed beverage builds while giving your bartenders room to recommend and upsell: Vodka London dry gin White rum Tequila blanco (100% agave) Bourbon Scotch Rye whiskey Cognac or brandy House dark rum or aged rum.

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Cocktails with Suderman

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Cocktails With Suderman is the home bartender’s guide, with tips, tricks, techniques, anecdotes, and recipes. But I want to return to the category this holiday season, in part because flips are decadent and delicious, and in part because it’s a surprisingly easy category for home bartenders to work with. So many recipes!

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