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Bartender Book of the Month Club: Drink Your Garden

Chilled Magazine

Welcome to Chilleds Bartender Book of the Month Club, your monthly guide to essential reads for bartenders. Each month, we spotlight a standout book to add to your collection and keep your creativity flowing. This months book is Drink Your Garden |BelindaKelly, Venise Cunningham, Rylea Foehl | W.

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Inside Bar Convent Brooklyn 2025

Chilled Magazine

Over the course of two days, attendees explored emerging spirits categories through sessions like An Exploration into Alpine Spirits , Reclaiming the Spotlight: The Future of Gin , and Building Better Rum Communities. The event received high praise from exhibitors for its seamless organization and strong industry impact.

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Inside Look: The Aladdin Sane, Detroit

Imbibe Magazine

The cocktail bar, an Imbibe 75 Place to Watch , is tucked beneath the restored, 1920s-era Book Tower in downtown Detroit. Sip on the Sake & Strange Divine, a Martini-style sake-based drink made with gin, rice whiskey, sushi rice, shiso, and garnished with caviar. Stokes Architecture + Design and hospitality group Method Co.

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Drink in History: Army & Navy

Chilled Magazine

It’s gin-based, slightly tart, and has been around long enough to have stories nobody can quite verify. Embury’s 1948 book, The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks. Embury’s 1948 book, The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks. Embury, a lawyer with a side hustle in cocktails, called it a variation of the gin sour, swapping sugar for orgeat syrup.

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Even the Great Martini Revival Can’t Save Vermouth

VinePair

For gin Martinis its rarer to get calls for no vermouth, but it is almost always dry or extra dry. When the Martini first started showing up on menus and in cocktail books in the 1800s, it was a sweet drink, made of Old Tom gin and sweet vermouth. In 1906 came the first appearance of a Dry Martini in a book.

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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. Better still they have turned their attention to producing a gin as Sylvia explained. Then Marco, my husband, wanted to try putting our begonias into a gin. A very floral gin Be!Gin

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4 of the Strongest Cocktails You Can Order at a Bar

VinePair

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. Then, four ounces of ice-cold gin is poured directly into the glass, making the drink essentially straight gin.

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