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The Cocktail College Podcast: The Gin Basil Smash

VinePair

The Gin Basil Smash is an herbaceous, bright green game-changer, created by Hamburg’s Joerg Meyer in 2008. After Meyer posted his creation on “The Bitters Blog,” he watched it explode across Europe, fueled by the early online cocktail community and the drink’s bold visual appeal. It’s Gin Pesto, Meyer’s Curse, and big basil.

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14 things we discovered at Flauer Alassio 2025

The Cocktail Lovers

Begonias make an extraordinary gin At their edible flower workshop we met Sylvia Barodi and Marco Rivera, founders of tastee.it. Sometimes bitter, sometimes sour, one reminiscent of lemon, another of orange. Better still they have turned their attention to producing a gin as Sylvia explained. A very floral gin Be!Gin

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The Ultimate Guide to The Porthole Infuser

Casual Mixologist

If youve been knocking around mixology blogs awhile, youve seen The Porthole infuser. Some of our favorites arepeach and mint in bourbon, strawberry and basil in gin, or jalapeno and mango in tequila. Bitters: you can make house bitters using infusions. But the Porthole adds an extra element to your home bar.

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Meet the maker: Sahil Beri, the man on a mission to put Australian Bitters on the global map

The Cocktail Lovers

“My dad and brother knew I had a talent for blending drinks, so they brought me on board to create a range of bitters.” Not just any old bitters but Australian Bitters, the brand that currently holds a 45% market share in Australia, the second largest market for bitters worldwide. That was in 2016.

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Celebrating 15 years of Baba Au Rum with 15 questions for founder Thanos Prunarus

The Cocktail Lovers

Gin is not for anyone. A Daiquiri, but with an addition of a little bit of rum agricole and two or three dashes of aromatic bitters. For example, if you’re a 20 year old with a younger palate you can have a light rum and ginger beer. Whiskey is not for everyone. But rum has this huge diversity of different styles.

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Mmmm is for Martinis… new podcast!

The Cocktail Lovers

With that in mind, we’ve picked out two very different bases for our Martinis, we go high proof with Beluga Gold Line Vodka and low – not in quality, but volume – with Second Sip, a new, recently released 20% abv gin created very much with sessional Martinis in mind by industry stalwarts Leo Robitschek and Nick Strangeway.

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

Cocktails with Suderman

Subscribe now It’s the Strange Brew, a tiki-ish, gin-based beer cocktail from bartender Thomas Waugh. And since the bitter-tiki Jungle Bird is one of my all-time favorite cocktails, that’s a very good thing. You can, however, use most any IPA—ideally an intense, hoppy, extra-bitter West Coast IPA. Read more

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