Chilled Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2024

In today’s craft cocktail culture, being forward-thinking with your drink program is important. For example, if you are a tiki bar, then you want your menu to reflect cocktails, liquors, beers, and flavors that match a tropical and Caribbean theme, i.e. rums and frozen drinks. Italian restaurant?

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VinePair

JANUARY 4, 2024

It was the height of the jet age as well, and tiki culture was soaring. This cultural hangover of masking the alcoholic equivalent of a “sports utility vehicle” endures to this day on suburban chain-restaurant drink menus populated by sugary bombs that get drinkers lit on the cheap.

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VinePair

JULY 8, 2025

Asking a bartender to name the most influential craft cocktail bar of all time is a heavy question bordering on unfair. Asking them to name their “Mount Rushmore” of craft cocktail bars doesn’t lighten the load all that much, despite expanding the field from one to four. It’s Japanese-NYC cocktail culture personified.

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Good Spirits News

DECEMBER 26, 2024

There are spirits and then theres spirit, and El Guapo embodies bothin no small part because the leader of the brand, Christa Cotton, came of age in a craft cocktail culture ripe with creativity. Quite festive and a great bitters for whiskies, anjeo tequilas, dark rums and tiki inspired cocktails. Really well done.

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Bitters Tiki Rum Tequila 97

VinePair

MAY 9, 2025

Tampa may be best known for its Gulf Coast sunsets and Cuban sandwiches, but for those with a well-trained palate and a thirst for a well-balanced spritz, this city is quietly becoming a sun-soaked haven of cocktail culture. Hiatus Hotel Hiatus/Sielo rooftop pool bar.

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