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New Orleans Bartender Geoffrey Wilson Helps Others Find Power and Purpose

Imbibe Magazine

In 2008, he was bestowed the “reader’s choice” award for best bartender by the Chicago Reader. In 2014, he was hailed as the city’s Best Bartender by the Phoenix New Times , which described him as “an encyclopedia of booze know-how… witty, jovial, and entirely professional—everything you could want from a bartender.”

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A New Standard: 5 Balcones Cocktails That Showcase American Single Malt Whisky at Its Best

VinePair

Balcones head bartender Don Phet is here to help break down what this new ruling means for the industry and consumers alike, as well as show off the versatility of American Single Malts in cocktails (because no, its not just for sipping neat!). According to Phet, several things inform what he uses in a mixed drink.

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Tales of The Cocktail Foundation Announces Spirited Awards® 2025 Canada Regional Top 10 Honorees

Tales of the Cocktail

Please follow along for additional information on the Tales of the Cocktail Foundation website, Instagram, X, and Facebook. ### About Tales of the Cocktail Foundation: Tales of the Cocktail Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering the global hospitality industry through education, advocacy, and community support.

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Tales Of The Cocktail Foundation (TOTCF) Announces the2025 Cocktail Apprentice Program® (CAP) Class

Bar Magazine

The Cocktail Apprentice Programs core pillars are mentorship, community, and elevating the craft of bartending beyond the bar and mixing glass. These forty bartenders are coming from around the world to learn, grow, and immerse themselves in our industry.

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Is This Death & Co.’s Most Underrated Cocktail?

Cocktails with Suderman

At the time, this was a fairly novel theory of how news and information would transmit in the digital era, and it captured the way that information becomes almost omnipresent when untethered from physical objects like books, magazines, and newspapers. Like I said—it’s a gin-and-beer-based kinda-sorta-tiki drink.

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Next Wave Awards Bartender of the Year: Garret Richard

VinePair

Raised among the retro culture of Los Angeles and a tiki enthusiast before he was old enough to drink — he came to the culture via exotica music in high school — Richard ditched his focus on a radio career to get into bartending. A year later he started a “Tiki Takeover” series at Prime Meats in Brooklyn.

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Raising the Bar: What It Takes To Succeed as a Bartender Today

VinePair

For a brief spell in the late ‘90s I was a lunch bartender at a neighborhood seafood restaurant in New York City. I’d been brought on as a waiter, but the seasoned bar staff, mostly primadonnas who conscientiously objected to daytime bartending, refused to work lunch. I could never be hired to do the same job today.