Category: bartenders
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New Drink Book Releases in 2025
I keep a close eye on new books on drinks (mostly cocktails and spirits rather than beer/wine), and I read most of them that come out every year. On this post I’ll keep track of them. I probably won’t include every cultural franchise tie-in cocktail book (Harry Potter, Star Wars, etc) but some. If you…
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Fall and Winter 2022 Drink Book Preview
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in bartenders, beer, books, cider, cocktails, food, gin, non-alcoholic, recipes, rye, sake, scotch whisky, Scotland, whisky, wineSo many drink books are coming out before the end of 2022 I decided to make a list of them. Links are to Amazon and they earn me an affiliate fee. The Little Book of Aperitifs: 50 Classic Cocktails and Delightful Drinks Cheer: A Liquid Gold Holiday Drinking Guide The Cocktail Edit: Everything You Need…
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The Future of San Francisco Cocktails (Predicted By Me) in San Francisco Magazine
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in aquavit, bars, bartenders, camper_clips, cocktails, distilling, ice, San Francisco, trends, whiskyTen articles by yours truly on drinking and bartending trends in the SF Bay Area.
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Robot Bartenders in the News
While robots will eventually make all our jobs obsolete, they seem to be coming for bartenders first. Three robot bartender happenings have popped up on my radar recently.
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What to Drink When You’re Not Drinking, According to Bartenders
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100 bartenders responded to my query: What do you drink when not drinking?
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Bartender Nexus: Range in San Francisco and its All-Star Cast
The owners of Range Restaurant announced that they'll be closing at the end of the year after 12 years in operation. Let's talk about how important this restaurant was for the world of San Francisco cocktails. This little restaurant was a surprising nexus of talented bartenders. I've been making mental notes of "nexus bars" for a while as…
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What They Got Right – and Wrong – at ABV in San Francisco
I decided to interview one of the owners, Ryan Fitzgerald, on what he feels they did right and wrong, and what changed from initial plans, when opening San Francisco bar ABV.
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Slushie Machine Cocktails: Calibration Tips from a Pro
The San Francisco temporary bar TSK/TSK, which will sometime this year be reincarnated as Horsefeather, featured several alcoholic slushies on its menu. Slushmaster Mitchell Lagneaux said he was often asked for his advice on how to make them delicious, and rather than writing the same advice over and over he thought he’d point them to…
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A Nine-Page Feature on Trick Dog’s Caitlin Laman
A big profile I wrote about bartender Caitlin Laman of Trick Dog in San Francisco.
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Rye Cocktails and Advanced Barrel Aging in Whisky Advocate
In the Summer 2104 issue of Whisky Advocate magazine I have two articles, one on rye whiskey cocktails and another on advanced barrel aging- also of cocktails.