Category: trends
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Everything’s Coming Up Apres-Ski
I was looking at new drink books and noticed that there are 3 apre-ski cocktail books coming out this winter 2026 alone. Sips on the Slopes: Drinks + Bites for Après-Ski Alpine Cocktails: 75+ Recipes for Drinks and Small Bites for the Apres-Ski Life Après: 75+ Cozy Winter Recipes for the Perfect Post-Ski Gathering
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Honey, They Highballed My Negroni!
I wrote a story about the somewhat recent mixological trend of converting cocktails and lowballs into highball cocktails with a little fizz. The story is on AlcoholProfessor.com and you can read it here.
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Not Everything is a Martini
I wrote a story for AlcoholProfessor on how we’re backsliding into calling things Martinis that are not Martinis, the causes of that, and the previous thinking (circa 1990s) on the definition. Read the story here.
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Put Chartreuse in Your Martini
In my latest story for AlcoholProfessor.com I share the trend of putting Chartreuse in your Martini, featuring bars such as: Read the story here.
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Dilute Your Own Hazmat Whiskey?
Lost Lantern independent whiskey bottler released their Spring 2026 collection, which was themed as a collection of high vs low proof whiskeys. The collection includes American single malts with unsmoked barley, Rocky Mountain bourbons with different mashbills, southern bourbons with different mashbills and malt influence, and rye whiskies with different ryes – and each of…
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Bartender’s Ketchup is Back on the Menu in SF
I wrote a story for the SFStandard about elderflower liqueur making a huge comeback. It was so popular when the brand St. Germain first launched in 2007 that it was given the nickname “bartender’s ketchup.” It’s so back, but now bartenders are using a wide range of products. Read the story here.
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All of the Olives’ Brine Time to Shine
My latest story for the San Francisco Chronicle is about all the ways bartenders are liquifying olives in their Martinis – in the vermouth, gin, vodka, brine, leaf tinctures, oil-washing everything, and even an “olive turducken.” Here’s a gift link so you can read it.