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Flavor Manipulation Course Series: Cocktail Bitters, Infusions, & Simple Syrups

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From understanding the basics to exploring more diverse sweeteners, this course helps you enhance your cocktail creations and overall cocktail mixology skills in the simplest of ways, so to speak. One of the easiest ways to to do this is to infuse the base spirit itself.

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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.

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Trends in the New Year, Predicted by Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits Experts

Chilled Magazine

Craft cocktails with locally sourced seasonal ingredients will always be a hit,” says Carla Marie Rivera, Director of Product Education, South Florida, Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits. “Low- to no-ABV consumption has been on the rise and will continue to do so, in my opinion.

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Wedding Party Gift Guide

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Photo by Egor Myznik via www.unsplash Infusing Barrels or DIY Infused Liquor This barrel is a really luxurious cocktail gift! Help your wedding party attendants make the perfect drink with these home infusion barrels. If liquor isn’t your think, try your hand at infusing vanilla extract.

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We Ask Bar Owner Joe Lamonica the Story Behind Vuolo’s Cocktail Menu

Chilled Magazine

Fat washing is a technique of using butter as a conduit to extract flavors from different spices or foods and infuse them into the spirit of your choice. We have two on the menu we are most proud of now which are “Laughing over Chocolate and Cigars”, our mezcal infused with Nutella, dried shiitake mushrooms, and espresso beans.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Making Gin at Home

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Of course, you could get complicated and use a still pot or mini-distillery, but… It’s actually illegal to distill your own liquor without a license, even just for personal use. Instead, we’re focusing on our very own bathtub gin ; honestly, it’s basically just infused vodka (not to be confused with flavored vodka).

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Brandy and Cognac Trends for 2024

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million 9-liter cases, according the Beverage Information Group 2024 Liquor Handbook. These brandies offer a wide range of flavors from orchard fruits and delicate florals to oak, spice and caramel perfect for sipping neat or as the backbone of expertly crafted cocktails, Rivas says. in 2023 to pre-Covid levels of 12.8

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