2023

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Champagne Cocktails

Imbibe Magazine

Champagne cocktails are a fun way to put an even more celebratory twist on the traditional glass of bubbly. From a Prohibition classic to an Italian-inspired modern sipper, here are some of our favorite ways to add a little extra pop to your cocktail glass. Airmail A supercharged Daiquiri made with honey and Champagne. The Bee’s Gees The Bee’s Gees cocktail from JoJo’s Beloved in Atlanta is a clever mash-up of the Bee’s Knees and the French 75.

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What Drink Trends Should Disappear in 2024?

PUNCH

This was the year people made Martinis their whole personality, 1970s basements suddenly became fashionable and “cocaine chic” was the dominant wine-bar aesthetic. Which trends have what it takes to stick it out through the new year?

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Christmas Cocktail at Manetta’s Bar

Chilled Magazine

Our Drink of the Week is the Christmas Cocktail at Manetta’s Bar at Fleming’s Mayfair in London. Step into the timeless elegance of Manetta’s Bar at Fleming Mayfair where nestled within the historic walls of the hotel, this intimate and stylish bar offers a blend of innovative cocktails with holiday charm. Gin Christmas Cocktail at Manetta’s Bar Ingredients 40ml Gin del Professore 15ml Cointreau 10ml Apple Juice 15ml lime juice 5ml Gingerbread 1 half spoon of cinnamon powder 10ml gomme syrup Pre

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The 30 Best Breweries in the Country Right Now, According to Beer Bars

VinePair

Since the dawn of craft beer, bars have played a pivotal role in the boom of American brewing. Nowhere is this more true than at the more specialized spots: the beer bars, as we know them, with their thoughtful selections across tap lines and bottle lists, and their dedication to service, atmosphere, and education. The best ones are learning institutions —places of discovery and retention, from the emerging trends to the established tastes.

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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: Mr. Pickles Gin

Drinkhacker

Named after the pit bull rescued by Wolf Distillery Master Distiller Ben Green, Mr. Pickles Gin carries the adorable face of the eponymous pup on the front of the bottle, and I’ll admit it, I’m smitten. The fetching blue bottle bearing a sweet-faced dog surrounded by flowers speaks directly to my heart. But let’s check out what’s inside the bottle. There we find a distillate made from locally grown, soft white winter wheat.

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Mark de Witte retires after nine years as De Kuyper Royal Distillers chief executive

Drinks International

De Kuyper Royal Distillers has announced the retirement of chief executive Mark de Witte who will be stepping down on April 30 2024 after a nine-year tenure in the role.

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CIABC urges for increased market access in European

Spiritz

Confederation of Indian Alcoholic Beverage Companies (CIABC) is urging for increased market access for Indian alcoholic beverage products in European markets. The industry body is calling on the European Union (EU) to eliminate non-tariff barriers that currently hinder the sale of the majority of Indian alcobev products in the European market. According to CIABC, the stipulated conditions for a product to be classified as whisky (requiring a maturation period of not less than three years) and br

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How to Improve the Accuracy of Your Bar’s Ordering

Bar-i

At Bar-i , we’ve performed over 30,000 bar inventory audits in over 40 states during the last 15 years, and this broad experience has given us a good look at the way most bars do their ordering. Quite simply, most bars don’t do a great job managing this aspect of their business. When we start working with a new bar or restaurant, we typically find that they tend to overorder.

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San Francisco’s Iconic Bay To Breakers Joins Forces With The City’s Chamber Of Commerce

PubClub

Bay to Breakers in San Francisco is a fun run and then some. Photo: Bay to Breakers Bay to Breakers, the historic and iconic annual event in San Francisco, has joined forces with the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce for 2024. The assocation, which includes starting a Corporate Teams program, is aimed at helping boost the downtown area and the city as a whole, which is still suffering the effects of the COVID pandemnic.

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Take Your Leftover Eggnog Liquor and Make Old Fashioneds

Cocktails with Suderman

Did you make this year’s eggnog ? Unless you made a really, really large batch, you probably had some liquor left over. If so, then here’s something else you can make with your remaining eggnog booze. Both of the eggnog recipes we looked at were built on spirit pairs. For a high-proof nog, we used Wild Turkey 101 bourbon and Smith & Cross Jamaican rum.

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Top 5 Ways to Optimize Your Loyalty Strategy

Speaker: Lauren Barash, Vice President, Brand Marketing

In an ever-evolving industry, building and retaining loyal customers is critical to the success of any restaurant business. Join Lauren Barash, VP of Brand Marketing at Full Course, as she delves into the world of restaurant loyalty programs, and reveals the top five essential strategies to optimize your approach! This webinar will explore: Loyalty trends and what you should be focusing on 📊 Actionable insights and ideas to help you develop the most powerful and effective loyalty program

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The 20 Most Popular Cocktail Recipes of 2023

Imbibe Magazine

We’re always on the lookout for home-friendly cocktail recipes to share on imbibemagazine.com. But looking back at 2023, we discovered that the most popular recipes on the site were classic cocktails and familiar favorites from the year before. In 2022, a tropical classic came in at #5 on the list, but in 2023, that same recipe seized the top spot, pushing last year’s #1 Negroni Sbagliato to #2.

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Less Beer, More Foam

PUNCH

Foamy beer and Lukr taps, a special tool for traditional Czech-style pours like hladinka, šnyt and mlíko, are taking over craft breweries.

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Must Mix: 4 Holiday Cocktails From Smoke Lab Vodka!

Chilled Magazine

With The Holiday Season Upon Us, Smoke Lab Vodka Is Serving Up A Menu Of Original And Festive Seasonal Cocktails, Created By National Mixologist And Industry Expert, Paula Lukas, @Paulalukas27. Inspired By Rock And Roll Classic Tunes, Each Cocktail Celebrates The Distinct Qualities Of Award-Winning Smoke Lab Classic, Aniseed And Saffron Vodka. Cheers!

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The 19 Best New Breweries of the Year, According to Beer Pros

VinePair

If you compiled all of the headlines covering craft beer over the past 12 months and gave your summation on the state of the industry, you might grumble something about a Bob Dylan song in between sips of your Flavortown spiked fruit punch. And, you wouldn’t be wrong (unless, of course, you crushed a can of said hard juice and celebrated by yelling “whiz bang wow”).

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Review: Breckenridge High Proof Blend Bourbon and Back to Back Blend Bourbon

Drinkhacker

Breckenridge Distillery is no stranger to Drinkhacker, though we’ve been keeping tabs more recently on their Buddy Pass collaborations with the coincidentally named but unrelated Breckenridge Brewery and their beer/bourbon barrel aging crossovers. Alas, we have not delved into their straight bourbons in nearly a decade despite steady releases since our review in 2012.

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Cosmo Pony to open in Jakarta in 2024

Drinks International

Jigger & Pony Group has announced the opening of Cosmo Pony in Jakarta in 2024, the company’s first overseas venture, Drinks International can exclusively reveal.

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PepsiCo invests in new soft drinks line in Romania

Just Drinks

Pepsi is investing $13m in a new production line in its soft drinks factory in Romania, making Pepsi, Pepsi Max, 7UP, Mirinda and others. The post PepsiCo invests in new soft drinks line in Romania appeared first on Just Drinks.

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UP approves new excise policy for next fiscal

Spiritz

The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet has greenlit a new excise policy for the upcoming fiscal year, effective from April 1, 2024. As part of the policy changes, the excise duty on country-made liquor will witness a Rs 5 increase starting from the specified date. This decision, sanctioned by the state cabinet on December 19, is anticipated to impact the prices of country-made liquor.

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Happy New Year Cocktail - Party Like Its Nineteen Ninety Now

Barina Craft

The Happy New Year Cocktail - An Eve(ning) Of Fun Toasts The Happy New Year cocktail is a drink mixed with brandy, ruby port wine, orange juice and champagne. Yes, it is named after the annual greeting and well wishing phrase uttered when the calendar cycle starts all over again, Happy New Year. However, it does get a little confusing. Sort of similar to how The Classic Cocktail is an actual drink recipe but sounds like it is describing another one altogether as in; “The Resolution Martini

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San Francisco New Year’s Eve Party At Cityscape Bar, The City’s Tallest Skybar

PubClub

People party at Cityscape bar in San Francisco on New Year’s Eve. Photo: Nick Graham New Year’s Eve in San Francisco takes on many forms and one elevated place – quite literally – to spend it is at Cityscape Bar. Located in the Union Square Hilton 46 floors above Union Square, Cityscape is the tallest skybar in San Francisco and offers 360° views of “the City” as locals call it.

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Holiday Cocktails for 2023

Cheers

We love holidays and we love cocktails, so December is the most wonderful time of the year for us. We get so many festive drink recipes submitted for the early winter occasions that it’s almost impossible to narrow them down, but we gave it a shot. (We seem drawn to the creamy drinks, perhaps seeking some indulgence after a long year.) Here are 10 we rounded up for 2023, and here are the holiday drinks from 2022.

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Gear: Champagne Glasses

Imbibe Magazine

A Champagne flute’s signature slim shape is more than just an aesthetic choice. A glass’s style will highlight different characteristics in the wine—a tapered rim keeps more bubbles in the glass, a wider bowl emphasizes aromatics, and a pointed base creates an alluring stream of bubbles. Whether it’s for a casually festive function or an elegant affair, a Champagne glass is a signal of the celebratory.

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Mastering Eggnog

PUNCH

The best spiked eggnog cocktail recipe features a blend of bourbon, rum and Cognac and won our blind tasting of the holiday drink.

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1800 Spicy Margarita

Chilled Magazine

Our Drink of the Week is a Spicy Margarita using 1800 Cucumber & Jalapeño This refreshingly spicy tequila is perfect in margaritas or even just as a chilled shot. Check out the recipe below! Photo by 1800 Tequila Tequila 1800 Spicy Margarita Ingredients 2 oz 1800 Cucumber & Jalapeño Tequila.75 oz Fresh Lime Juice.75 oz Agave Syrup Preparation In a mixing tin, combine 1800 Cucumber & Jalapeño Tequila, fresh lime juice and agave syrup.

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Bar Owners Outraged as Beefeater Sneakily Lowers ABV (Again)

VinePair

One day recently, Toby Cecchini received a text message from a spirits industry friend of his. It was a photo of a bottle of Beefeater Gin sitting on a shelf at a Maryland liquor store, showing an ABV of 40 percent. “I was gobsmacked,” says Cecchini, co-owner of Brooklyn’s Long Island Bar. He went down to his liquor storage room and looked at his Beefeater bottles.

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Review: George Dickel Bourbon 18 Years Old

Drinkhacker

Old Dickel whiskey has become a regular occurrence in recent years, with ages of 13 , 15 , and 17 years old hitting the market. Now Dickel’s one-upping itself with an even older expression at 18 years old. It’s important to note that this is marketed as an extension to its Bourbon line — not its Tennessee Whiskeys — which began with Dickel Bourbon 8 Years Old.

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Beam Suntory agrees Courvoisier deal with Gruppo Campari

Drinks International

Gruppo Campari has agreed a billion-pound deal to buy Beam Suntory's cognac brand Courvoisier. Courvoisier, known historically as one of the top four.

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Campari to buy Courvoisier from Beam Suntory

Just Drinks

Campari has today (14 December) announced a deal to buy the Cognac brand Courvoisier from Beam Suntory. The post Campari to buy Courvoisier from Beam Suntory appeared first on Just Drinks.

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Celebrating the essence of Mahua in gin

Spiritz

When Varun Jain, CEO and Founder, Smoke Lab, decided to launch a unique sipping gin, Mohulo for the Indian market, he knew he would be charting a new and trailblazing path. As such, the gin needed to have something very authentic, something very different. And it is at that time when Jain looked at the mahua tree to find inspiration and the core ingredient for his unique gin and also to blend in the legacy of India’s rich cultural diversity into the beverage.

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How to Maintain and Monitor a Restaurant Inventory Spreadsheet

Sculpture Hospitality

Managing inventory is a crucial aspect of running a successful restaurant business. An efficient and well-organized inventory strategy can help you control costs, reduce waste, and ensure that you have the right ingredients on hand to meet customer demand.

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Whiskey Review: Bardstown Bourbon Co. Discovery Series #11

The Whiskey Wash

Editor’s Note: This whiskey was provided to us as a review sample by the party behind it. This in no way, per our editorial policies , influenced the final outcome of this review. It should also be noted that by clicking the buy link in this review our site receives a small referral payment which helps to support, but not influence, our editorial and other costs.

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New Year’s Cocktails With Sparkle for 2023

Cheers

The holiday season is all about the sparkle, especially when it comes to wine, and especially on New Year’s Eve. Ingredients such as apple brandy, pear liqueur and wintery spices add seasonal flair for drinks you can enjoy long after the ball has dropped and the holiday decorations are put away. Here are 10 recipes that we like for this year. (And for more bubbly ideas suggestions, here’s our New Year’s drinks roundup from 2022.

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Imbibe 75 Person to Watch: Morgan Owle-Crisp

Imbibe Magazine

As a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee living in Haywood County in the North Carolina mountains just west of Asheville, Morgan Owle-Crisp long held caution around beer. “Many people in my culture are not proponents of alcohol,” she explains. “Liquor was historically used to manipulate Native people into contracts and negotiations when they were not of sound mind.

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How Do You Make Sorrel? It Depends Who You Ask.

PUNCH

With ginger or without, fresh or fermented—the right way to prepare the Caribbean holiday staple is hotly debated between islands.

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12 Days of Christmas Cocktails

Chilled Magazine

Holiday Cheers: 12 Festive Cocktails for a Merry Christmas As the holiday season unfolds, we’re thrilled to bring you a delightful journey through twelve unique and festive cocktails, each inspired by the classic Christmas carol. From the first day to the twelfth, we’ll explore a variety of flavors and spirits that capture the essence of the holidays.

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