Category: Article
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Cherried, Not Cherried: An Old-Fashioned Controversy
A dirty martini might not be a classic martini but it is still a species of martini…so the time has come that we recognize the dirty old-fashioned (one with cherry and maybe an orange slice, muddled or not). But let’s be clear, such is a dirty old-fashioned and not a classic old-fashioned. I used to work with… Read more
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What is the Craft in Bartending?
What are craft cocktails? Cocktail writers by large recognize that the cocktail world underwent a renaissance at the start of the twenty-first century. In a TED Talk, beverage writer Wayne Curtis discussed the recent evolution of the craft cocktail. He stated that in the early part of the twenty-first century, there were only a handful… Read more