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JULY 16, 2024
A class action lawsuit centers on the alleged dangers of kava and kratom, two ingredients used in a drink purported to boost “vitality,” “chill vibes” and “relaxation.
Imbibe Magazine
JULY 17, 2024
If you’ve ever run an internet search for a cocktail recipe, there’s a good chance you’ve come across one from The Educated Barfly. What started as a YouTube series from actor-turned-bartender Leandro DiMonriva on the history and craft behind classic cocktails has transformed into an ever-expanding encyclopedia of bartending expertise. Since publishing his first video in 2017 (on the quintessential Gimlet , of course), DiMonriva’s passion for cocktail culture and scholarship have helped turn The
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Chilled Magazine
JULY 17, 2024
Summer is a great time for lighter, refreshing beers. And while it’s tough to beat the appeal of a classic pilsner or hoppy, piney IPA, one of the best choices for the summer months is a refreshing, balanced wheat beer. In the most basic sense, a wheat beer is a top-fermented beer that’s made with a higher percentage of wheat as opposed to the usual barley.
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
JULY 19, 2024
A few notable things as we head into the weekend… We shared a few brief updates about this previously, but is/was brewing took to Reddit recently to confirm that they’re opening a taproom later this summer. That taproom will be located at 5121 N. Ravenswood, aka the former home of Urban Brew Labs and Metropolitan Brewing. It’s only midsummer but we’re already thinking about Black Friday.
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PUNCH
JULY 18, 2024
Craft beer breweries once looked down on Budweiser and Coors for using rice in their beers. Today, craft rice lager is trending. Here's why.
Imbibe Magazine
JULY 14, 2024
The bracing combination of blanco tequila, fresh lime, and Topo Chico has sated West Texas ranchers and the people who drink with them for generations. In recent years, the refresher gained national prominence and inspired inventive riffs at bars and restaurants across the country. From green tea infusions to chili-spiked sotol variations, here are three next-gen Ranch Waters to take for a spin.
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BarLifeUK
JULY 19, 2024
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PUNCH
JULY 19, 2024
The Doudou, a vodka shot from Beirut, Lebanon, combines the spirit with an olive, lemon and hot sauce and is iconic at bars around the city.
VinePair
JULY 15, 2024
Despite global wine consumption trailing behind that of beer and spirits, wine isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Despite pervasive doom and gloom regarding the future of the industry, the beverage remains a cornerstone of culture all over the world, especially in nations that have produced it for eons like France and Italy. Outside Europe, consumption remains relatively high, especially here in the United States where Americans down an impressive 935 million gallons every year.
Chilled Magazine
JULY 14, 2024
A unique twist on an Old Fashioned perfect for summer sipping! The Sagamore Summer Old Fashioned is made with Sagamore Rye Whiskey, a traditional Maryland-style rye whiskey offering notes of classic baking spices with fruit, including golden delicious apples. The rye then gives way to vibrant sweet notes of caramel, honey, and brown sugar, which lends perfectly to the blood orange and floral components incorporated into this cocktail.
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Imbibe Magazine
JULY 19, 2024
It takes very little persuasion for me to sample a new coffee product. I am a devout, daily coffee drinker, and I find the innovative arc of instant coffee to be particularly fascinating. Launched earlier this year, Kloo is a craft coffee concentrate formulated by roaster and Q-grader Mariella Cho and her daughter Claudia Snoh, with the aim to make single-origin coffees ready to prepare—hot or cold—instantly.
PUNCH
JULY 17, 2024
Studied nonchalance and normcore are defining the modern cocktail bar aesthetic, from Room for Improvement to Gilly's House of Cocktails.
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
JULY 17, 2024
Before we jump into the labels, I thought I’d do something a little different this week. My birthday is this week, and I figured it was as good a time as any to try something I’ve never done before. Until now, I’ve never discounted our Premium Subscription tier, which allows you to get a look at all the super-fun beer labels I pull each week from around the Midwest, as well as early access to select stories and, hopefully soon, an increased number of exclusive posts like beer r
Chilled Magazine
JULY 15, 2024
More than 165 years of heritage goes into every bottle of J.P. Wiser’s Whisky, still crafted today by Canada’s oldest continuous whisky producing family at the country’s longest running distillery, The Hiram Walker & Sons Distillery. We ask Gina Fossitt, Trade and Education Brand Manager for JP Wiser’s to tell us more about Canadian Whisky.
Drinkhacker
JULY 17, 2024
A year after adding a seven year age statement to its flagship small batch rye , Knob Creek is back with another permanent addition to the core lineup. It’s that same Kentucky straight rye whiskey, this time aged 10 years, and at a slightly more premium price point. (A $30 bump up from the seven year old version.) As always with Knob Creek Rye, this is distilled from a “Kentucky-style” mashbill with somewhere just north of the legally mandated 51 percent rye grain, along with a sizeable portion
PUNCH
JULY 15, 2024
The Mojito Caballito is a forgotten rum cocktail recipe from Sloppy Joe’s in Havana, Cuba. Houston bar Lei Low is bringing it back.
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
JULY 15, 2024
As if you needed more evidence that the American Midwest is a pretty great place to be a craft beer drinker, here are the nation’s top ten breweries, according to the 2024 U.S. Open Beer Championship : 1. Third Eye Brewing — Ohio 2. Monday Night Brewing – Georgia 3. Sun King Brewery – Indiana 4. O.H.S.O. Brewery Gilbert – Arizona 5.
Chilled Magazine
JULY 15, 2024
An expert in cocktail craftsmanship with extensive whiskey knowledge, Tony Arnone has over a decade of bartending experience. Arnone serves as the lead mixologist at The Barbershop Cuts & Cocktails in The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. He leads whiskey tastings and crafts whiskey-based cocktails for the popular speakeasy. Starting as a flair bartender, Arnone has traveled the world, creating nearly 50 different cocktail menus in countries such as Thailand, China, and the Philippines.
The Whiskey Wash
JULY 19, 2024
Cask-finished bourbon is a bourbon that has been matured in the traditional (and legally defined) virgin, charred American oak barrel, before undergoing a finishing period in a different type of barrel. These barrels have normally been used to mature a different spirit, wine, or beer. Sherry, port, and wine are among the most common finishing casks for bourbon.
PUNCH
JULY 15, 2024
The 15 best classic gin cocktails to make, including easy recipes for the Martini, Negroni, Gimlet, Gin and Tonic and more.
Drinkhacker
JULY 19, 2024
Two big new releases from Utah’s High West, starting with its first bonded whiskey ever, a recognition of its (slow but) steady transition to in-house distillate. 2024’s annual drop of Bourye is also in the review lineup, and it too has a bit of High West’s own whiskey in store for us this year… but plenty of juice from other parts of the country, too.
VinePair
JULY 17, 2024
At Benziger Family Winery, “family” is taken to heart. Today’s guest, brand ambassador Chris Benziger, is the youngest of seven. Four brothers, two sisters, 19 nieces and nephews: “It was my dad’s idea of cheap labor, I guess,” Benziger says, laughing. “Or nepotism run amok.” For the Benzigers, working in the drinks industry seems like destiny. With an “honest to God” bootlegger grandfather, importer father, and wine-loving older brother, it’s no wonder they established one of Sonoma County’s p
The Whiskey Wash
JULY 18, 2024
Join us as the Whiskey Wash Editor In Cheif Mark Littler YouTube we delves into the tumultuous world of whisky investment, where recent events have dramatically reshaped the landscape. In this detailed analysis, Mark uncovers the underlying causes behind the current market disruption, marked by police raids on cask investment firms and a significant drop in whisky prices to levels last seen in 2021.
Just Drinks
JULY 17, 2024
Pernod Ricard has struck a deal to offload a clutch of wine assets to the owner of Australian-headquartered Accolade Wines.
Drinkhacker
JULY 18, 2024
Barbados’ Mount Gay has recently graced us with two new expressions of its rums, one for (relatively) mass consumption, the other extremely limited. Up firs: The gold expression of Mount Gay Eclipse has been gently rebranded as Mount Gay Eclipse Heritage Blend — tagline “Crisp & Aromatic” — and now it has a big brother in the form of a navy strength version.
The Cocktail Lovers
JULY 19, 2024
We’ve always been about the amazing creativity that runs throughout this industry – that goes for the people and products and of course, the drinks. We’re ticking all of those boxes in this episode, starting with our products, both of which show off their creativity by breaking convention in where they are made: the first is Outelier rum from the Isle of Man the other is Sogood sake made in California.
Bar Magazine
JULY 16, 2024
Degen Distillery is building the world’s first lifestyle spirits brand powered by next-gen technology Degen Distillery’s 721 Vodka will become available online to consumers later this month, and available on Amazon from August Following its exclusive debut at Goodwood Racecourse, Degen Distillery is set for further commercial expansion throughout the UK, Europe and US Degen Distillery has announced the launch of its debut product, 721 Vodka, set to be available online to consumers this month.
Just Drinks
JULY 15, 2024
The EU has invited representatives of member states to join a wine-policy group to discuss challenges and opportunities for the sector.
Drinkhacker
JULY 19, 2024
Bodegas Valdemar, located in the renowned Rioja region of Spain, has been producing wine since 1889. Today, we’re taking a look at two wines harvested from the Conde Valdemar vineyards, a significant part of this family-owned winery, located in the Rioja Alavesa and Rioja Alta sub-regions. We’re also revisiting its Crianza offering, which won a favorable review last year , and was also deemed an excellent value buy.
Mix That Drink
JULY 19, 2024
Discover the perfect Black Russian cocktail recipe. Simple ingredients, easy steps, and a delicious result every time. Enjoy a classic drink today!
The Whiskey Wash
JULY 18, 2024
We review Rare Hare The Tempest Tasmanian Single Malt Aged 20 Years, an Australian single malt first aged for seventeen years in standard-size bourbon casks and then aged for another three years in port casks. (image via Rare Hare) Editor’s Note: We received a review sample of this whisky from the brand. However, in accordance with our editorial policies , this has not influenced the outcome of our review in any way.
Cheers
JULY 18, 2024
Fine wines taste different from mass-produced wines for the same reasons that heirloom tomatoes from your garden taste different from supermarket tomatoes. This is driven more by wine’s raw material than by the winemaking process itself. The grapes for value-oriented wines are cultivated very differently from those destined for super-premium wines, even if they are of the same varietal and grown in the same appellation.
Drinkhacker
JULY 17, 2024
Our friends at New Orleans’ Cocktail & Sons are known for their syrup mixers, and now the company is branching out into bitters — under the “Max Bitter” brand name. Today we’re looking at the latest cocktail sweetener from the operation, plus its three inaugural bitters offerings. Cocktail & Sons Tonic #15 – Made with bitter herbs and spices, citrus, baking spices, and peppercorns.
Drinks International
JULY 17, 2024
Hanna Lee Communications has launched a trade-consumer event called New York Bartender Week which will make its debut on 18-24 November 2024.
The Whiskey Wash
JULY 17, 2024
We review Old Fitzgerald Bottled-in-Bond Spring 2024 Kentucky Straight Bourbon, aged for a decade and the thirteenth national release in the popular Heaven Hill decanter series. (image via Heaven Hill) Editor’s Note: We received a review sample of this whiskey from the brand. However, in accordance with our editorial policies , this has not influenced the outcome of our review in any way.
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