VinePair

JUNE 6, 2025

I’ve seen coworkers with true reverence cite service as the sole driver behind their craft and then roll their eyes in a guest’s face for ordering a ‘Tito’s and vodka’ [instead of ‘Tito’s and soda’]. ” —Justin Young, head bartender, Farm Bar Lakeview , Chicago “Too many drink makers, not enough bartenders.

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Cheers

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Once the star of the cocktail scene, gin has never regained momentum since vodka took off in recent decades. Queen in Miami’s Negroni riff Idol’s Eye, with N3 gin, Campari infused with strawberries and plum wine. is warming to gin once again — for real this time. Valerie also offers a Signature Martini section ($27 for a 6-oz.

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VinePair

APRIL 25, 2024

And now we have Margaritas, because tequila is the fad, not vodka. Riffs now include unusual ingredients, infusions, and syrups that take the drink well beyond the sugary strawberry Margaritas of yesteryear. “I The mezcal in it is infused with an earthy fungus called huitlacoche, which is considered a delicacy in Mexico.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With Rose Mary’s Croatian-Italian focus, that house-made infusion fits perfectly alongside imported bottles of slivovitz and plenty of customers who love it. But what do you do when life sends you plums? But according to the restaurant’s beverage director, Kyle Davidson, that might be a very different story somewhere else.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Credit: Jeff Brown While many bars turn to fat-washing or expensive infusions to deliver elevated drinks to their guests, Sebastian found a way to create an experience that can’t be replicated by simply buying the highest quality ingredients; these flavors have to be made with patience and care. Like, a 100-year-old soy sauce — that’s luxury.”

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

I sat down with beverage director Jonathan Adler and head bartender Danny Reylock to find out what’s possible with an armory of high-tech tools like chamber vacuums, sonicators, liquid nitrogen, and a full-time pastry chef handling prep. Rather than settle or substitute, Adler turned the drink on its head.

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VinePair

JANUARY 25, 2024

While some Trader Joe’s do sell spirits, in addition to branded private-label bottles of tequila, vodka, and whiskey, Pronto! Vintage bottles of Distilleria Turchetto-branded Sambuca, cordials, rhum fantasia, and Pruma — a blend of grappa, spirits, and aromatic infusions — pop up on some vintage spirits sites.)

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The Bartender Company

JANUARY 16, 2024

Some of the popular types of non-alcoholic spirits include those that mimic gin, whiskey, rum, vodka, and liqueurs. These can include infusion (soaking the botanicals in water or a non-alcoholic liquid), maceration (a similar process to infusion but often using a gentle heat source to aid extraction), or distillation.

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Bar Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Each of the 16 creations draws inspiration from diverse eras, countries, cultures, and customs, all concocted using house-made picklings, sherbets, bitters and infused liqueurs that transcend the ordinary. The presentation of the menu is as much a spectacle as the cocktails themselves.

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Bar Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Formerly the head bartender at London’s Artesian, which won World’s Best Bar multiple times, Kratena is celebrated for pushing the boundaries of mixology through creativity, sustainability, and craftsmanship.

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Cheers

JANUARY 23, 2024

“The range of use is great — from sweet, creamy cheese foam garnishing a cocktail to hard cheese grated on top or even infused within spirits,” the report says. The Caprese Martini at Jac’s On Bond in New York, with Grey Goose vodka, Lustau Blanco, balsamic vinegar, a pinch of salt, and garnished with skewered cherry tomatoes.

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VinePair

MAY 13, 2024

Their top-selling drink is a Vodka Soda. The Vodka Y Soda isn’t just a two-ingredient highball; they add guava and pasilla into the mix, and the result is refreshing and intensely flavorful. This brings us back to the Vodka Soda, a drink that many cocktail snobs have rendered beneath them for years. There’s a lot to unpack.

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 12, 2025

Bartenders incorporate herbal infusions or housemade mignonettes, opt for gin or vodka bases, and experiment with proportions. Brass Poppys Gibson At the lobby bar in Austins chic Hotel Van Zandt, you can order your Gibson with vodka or gin; either way, it will be a theatrical affair. gin or vodka 1/2 oz.

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Chilled Magazine

APRIL 25, 2025

Vodka Steak & Chopin Potato Ingredients 2 oz. Chopin Potato Vodka 2 dashes Worcestershire 2-3 turns cracked black pepper Preparation Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into chilled martini glass. Add shallot, Chambord, vodka, vinegar, and white pepper into a sealed container and marinate in the refrigerator overnight.

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VinePair

MAY 12, 2025

The flavor, achieved by infusing toasted Corn Flakes in cold milk and using that as a base for ice cream, tapped into playful childhood emotions and was an instant sensation. Sure, some bartenders held onto their Froot Loop- and Cinnamon Toast Crunch-infused creations, but for the most part cereal milk remained a thing of the past until now.

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VinePair

JANUARY 15, 2025

Culch Vodka is mixed with a vermouth blend, a chicken bouillon blend, caperberry brine, and orange bitters. At Brooklyns Bitter Monk head bartender Ryan Garrison garnishes his Fauna & Flora Martini with a side glass of air-fried tarragon leaves. A pickled scallion bulb and ginger ribbon serve as garnish.

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VinePair

JUNE 5, 2025

The distillery bar and half a dozen others such as The Bison , Bluebird , Hello Sunshine , and Lupo are part of what’s been dubbed the Banff Cocktail Trail, which currently offers a lineup of tea-infused cocktails in conjunction with local purveyor Jolene’s Tea House. There’s more to explore beyond Botaanik.

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Cheers

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

For instance, Gin & Juice, the RTD line of ready-to-drink cocktails from Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre, are available Chicago-based Puttshack , a tech-infused mini-golf concept, and the movie house chain AMC Theatres. Menus across the country are infusing their drinks with functional mushrooms. Pittsburgh restaurant Scratch & Co.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It’s all very tantalizing, esoteric, somewhat mysterious stuff and it’s no wonder so many people (myself included) were eager to read more about this far-flung company that was making neither whiskey nor gin nor vodka but, instead, “freeform spirits.” The 27 percent ABV spirit was, like all Empirical releases, uncategorizable.

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