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

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Orlando filled the little space he had to the gills with spirits and liqueurs that showcase terroir; mezcal , r(h)um, brandy, and an extensive shelf dedicated to eaux de vie. It exists in a class of its own as a cocktail nightclub. Bold, bitter, and dry, with cinnamon, pine, and poppy notes.

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This Is Not a Painkiller

Cocktails with Suderman

You can play with base spirits, modifiers, add-ons, bitters, and so forth. 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. At Death & Co.,