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A High-Tech ‘Beer Printer’ From Belgium Wants to Digitize the Drinking Experience

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A beer sommelier with a certificate from the Doemens Academy in Munich, Roland Graber is a co-owner of Riot Act Brewing and the craft beer bar On Tap in Bern, Switzerland. I’m a beer sommelier, and sensorially well educated and experienced. “The beers were good, they were even perfect in a technical way,” he says. They were clean.

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2024 Bartender Spirits Awards Final Call For Entry. Enter Your Spirits Before April 24.

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restaurants, bars, clubs and pubs. Using the tagline “Judged By Bartenders, Bar Managers and Off-Premise Managers For The On-Premise Industry,” the Bartender Spirits Awards will recognize, encourage, promote and celebrate excellence in the U.S. drinks industry for the 6th time. Who are the Judges?

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Meet The Beverage Directors Behind NYC’s New Wave of Korean Fine-Dining Restaurants

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Some in the movement are using the spotlight to highlight Korea’s traditional drinks and drinking culture, incorporating unique Korean “sool” (alcoholic beverages) into their programs and emulating the atmosphere of Korea’s “pocha” or pubs. It also offered a saline finish that added an extra accent to the experience.

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Tales Of The Cocktail Foundation (TOTCF) Announces The 2024 Cocktail Apprentice Program (CAP) Class

Tales of the Cocktail

Pre Shift sources first-person accounts from the front lines of the food and beverage world, exploring topics of relevance to today’s most ambitious and forward-thinking bartenders, account owner and operators, sommeliers and trade professionals. Patricia Howard and Ed Szymanski of Lord’s, and Paul Aguilar of Himkok, among many others.

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How Changing Times and Social Media Are Transforming Shift Drink Culture

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Denver’s Clara Klein , lead sommelier at Sunday Vinyl , recounts her barley-soaked introduction to the rite at Little Nell in Aspen. And given the current social paradigm of neo-temperance and adjacent trends, beer’s premier position on top of a moderated shift drink podium is likely secure for the foreseeable future.

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Tales Of The Cocktail Foundation (TOTCF) Announces The 2024 Cocktail Apprentice Program (CAP) Class

Tales of the Cocktail

Pre Shift sources first-person accounts from the front lines of the food and beverage world, exploring topics of relevance to today’s most ambitious and forward-thinking bartenders, account owner and operators, sommeliers and trade professionals. Patricia Howard and Ed Szymanski of Lord’s, and Paul Aguilar of Himkok, among many others.

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The World’s Top 10 Beer Destinations for 2025

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When hunger strikes, try to secure a reservation at The Butchers Son, the Michelin-star restaurant led by chef Bert-Jan Michielsen and sommelier Luc Dickens. Though the brand was acquired by Molson Coors in 2013, the pub and brewery remained in the hands of its original owner, Shane Long.

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