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Meet Your New Bartending BFF: Cocktail Recipe Cards!

A Bar Above

What Are Cocktail Flashcards? Why We Made These Drink Recipe Cards What’s Inside the Deck Who These Are For How to Use Cocktail Flashcards Ready to Get Yours? Remember the good ol’ days of high school or college, cramming for exams with flashcards? Well, we’ve taken that tried-and-true study method and given it a boozy makeover. Based on personal experience, countless conversations with bartenders, and witnessing more than one newbie frantically Google popular cocktail recipes mid-sh

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Pineau Spritz

Chilled Magazine

Our Drink of the Week is the Pineau Spritz Say hello to your new favorite summer sip: The Pineau Spritz! This cocktail is light, gently sweet, and effortlessly refreshing. It’s an easy pour with a touch of French elegance—perfect for sunny afternoons, or aperitif hour with friends! Featuring Pineau des Charentes from Guerin, Normandin-Mercier, and Jean Fillioux—each with its own delicious twist.

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Three Coffee Beans on an Espresso Martini Makes Sense — but Why on Sambuca?

VinePair

Almost every aspect of Italian food and beverage culture revolves around digestion. There’s “aperitivo hour,” designed to stimulate the appetite before dinner. Italians often serve salad after a main course as a palate cleanser and digestive aid. And in Italian restaurants, it’s relatively common to cap off a meal with a shot of some form of digestivo, whether it’s an amaro , limoncello, grappa , or sambuca — the last of which is a neutral spirit flavored with aniseed, star anise, fennel s

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Why Wee Smoky Is Redefining Peated Scotch: A Q&A with Felix Bottomley

The Whiskey Wash

Felix Bottomley, Brand Ambassador at Wee Smoky, tells The Whiskey Wash why Wee Smoky whisky is the best mixing scotch whisky with a peated twist. Smoky scotch doesn’t have to mean overpowering peat or a dram by the fire. For Wee Smoky, smoke is a tool, not the whole story. This independent bottler has set out to create a lighter, sweeter, cocktail-friendly scotch whisky that brings a subtle twist of smoke to the glass.

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Food & Beverage Industry Report 2024

Driven by a diverse and exciting ecosystem of passionate, ambitious, and often young entrepreneurs, the Food & Beverage (F&B) sector is a highly competitive environment full of immense challenges and exciting opportunities. Expert Market’s 2024 industry report, sponsored by Toast, is informed by a survey of 522 U.S. food and beverage professionals, from restaurant owners to food service managers, providing insights into the real-time challenges and opportunities within the industry.

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Review: Ten To One Reserve Cask Rum 18 Years Old – Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad

Drinkhacker

Ten To One ‘s first single barrel bottling was a well-aged 17 year old cask from Trinidad, and now the indie bottling operation is back with not one follow-up but three — all single cask releases and all 18 years old, from three different countries: Barbados, Trinidad and Jamaica. These barrels mark the official launch of Ten To One Rum’s Reserve Cask Collection, and they are very limited offerings, with only around 325 bottles of each cask available worldwide.

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World’s Best Bourbons According to the IWSC 2025

The Whiskey Wash

Each year, the International Wine & Spirits Competition (IWSC) brings together judges from across the industry to assess thousands of spirits from around the world. Every bourbon in this list achieved a score of 98 or above, earning a “Spirit Gold Outstanding” medal, reserved for spirits that show exceptional quality, character, and balance. In 2025, five bourbons hit that benchmark.