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Can a Cocktail Have Too Many Ingredients? Bartenders Weigh In

VinePair

If you’ve ever wondered how a famous cocktail’s ingredient list came to be, it’s worth taking a look at when it was made. Almost any pre-Prohibition cocktail’s original specs mostly hover around the three-to-four-ingredient range. Creating a three-ingredient cocktail that makes it into the canon is the dream.” —Jon

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5 Useful Tips to Elevate your Bar Menu and Drinks Program

Chilled Magazine

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. What kind of drinking establishment are you?

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Bartenders, Celebrate National Absinthe Day with T.A. Breaux, Research Scientist, Creator of LUCID and Jade Absinthes

Chilled Magazine

When distilled true to tradition, authentic absinthe embodied a beautiful spirit that made an indelible impression on art and culture, including cocktail culture. For decades, absinthe owned an authentic place in cocktail history and therefore deserves a place in modern cocktail creation. Experiment!

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We Asked 15 What’s the Best New Rum That’s Earned a Spot on Your Bar? (2024)

VinePair

For years, much of American cocktail culture treated rum as little more than a summertime spirit or a match for Coke and ginger beer. It’s a great sub for white rum in a Floridita Daiquiri and is a great complementing spirit for any tropical fruit-driven tiki drink.” But thankfully, those days are behind us, and the U.S.

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

Tales of the Cocktail

Each July, the industry gathers in New Orleans, the beating heart of cocktail culture and hospitality, for a one-of-a-kind conference that blends education, networking, and celebration like no other. Guided by its core pillarsEducate, Advance, and Supportthe Foundations impact extends far beyond the U.S.

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The Bushwacker: The Ultimate Florida Man Cocktail

Cocktails with Suderman

But the area has its own cocktail culture too, and that culture reflects the region’s sensibility: It’s tropically inclined and tiki-influenced, but sillier, more absurd, more ridiculous, more over-the-top. Inevitably, that means a lot of Miller Lite and tequila shots.

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From the Alabama Slammer to the White Russian: Were Any Good Cocktails Created in the ’70s?

VinePair

It was the height of the jet age as well, and tiki culture was soaring. Of course, what we’ve also learned from the era of the extra Martini, unicorn latte, and increasingly absurdist Bloody Mary is that there are also times in history when we drinkers explicitly reject serious cocktail culture.

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