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October 17, 2012
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A NEAT Night
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Leave it to owner Aidan Demarest to finish off NEAT 's first year of business with a bang. To celebrate the major feat, Demarest invited some of the industry's finest to enjoy a live band (The ... |
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October 17, 2012
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Bottling Matters
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Ariela Kozin |
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It's no secret that there's been a steep rise in craft and artisan spirits. With a flurry of craft distilleries and craft brewers popping up, Owens-Illinois has come up with one solution to solve the ... |
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July 31, 2012
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Red Carpet Wine & Spirits
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Jamie Solomon |
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At first, Red Carpet Wine looks like your average retail store. Stepping out of the brutal Glendale heat, I was welcomed by a refreshing blast of air. As I meandered the rows of wine and spirits that ... |
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July 10, 2012
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Captivating Caribbean Cocktails
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Jamie Solomon |
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Bahama Breeze Island Grille is a casual dining restaurant that makes you feel as if you have escaped to the Caribbean...and what is a true vacation without a cold cocktail in your hand? Bahama Breeze ... |
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March 26, 2012
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Adventures in Victorian Drinking
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Sara Joyce Robinson |
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It happens every time I watch Masterpiece Theater. I develop a craving for some archaic food or drink. Like Turkish delight, claret, or mead. Something I have never actually tasted, but sounds so ... |
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February 27, 2012
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The Naming Game, From Hop Whore To Nut Sack
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Lisa P. Sutton |
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I'm a beer girl. I like an easy amber ale over lunch, a sharp IPA to sip while watching the Laker game. On a hastily-poured stout, I've been known to drink up the foamy head with a spoon. Though I ... |
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February 21, 2012
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Barrel-Aged Ales: A Gateway to Top-Shelf Spirits?
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Since moving to Portland, Oregon in 2010, I have met quite a few people whose drinking histories begin with craft beer. Unlike myself and most of my prior acquaintances, these drinkers did not begin ... |
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February 13, 2012
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Party In Aisle 4
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Lisa P. Sutton |
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I hadn't planned to be drinking at noon. My ten-minute errand at BevMo turned into a three-hour detour. I had gone in only to replenish a few favorites, the Napa Smith Lost Dog Red Ale, a couple of ... |
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November 02, 2011
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It's Not Okay, It's ArKay . . . and It's Alcoholic-Free!
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It's not just beer and wine that can be non-alcoholic anymore. Whisky has entered the sober game. The $40 billion dollar non-alcoholic beverage market is experiencing a first: ArKay Alcoholic -Free ... |
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January 25, 2011
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How New EU Labeling Initiatives Will Affect US Packaging & Italian Wine
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The difference between DOCG, DOC, IGT (and all the other acronyms of years past) can make purchasing a pleasing bottle of Italian wine seem like an impossible challenge. So when importers, ... |
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January 24, 2011
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Vino 2011-- The Future of Italian Wine Press Conference
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Emily Steers |
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In a press conference held this morning by the Italian Trade Commission, leading industry professionals gathered in a panel for a quick but informative overview about the future of the Italian wine ... |
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June 07, 2010
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Decoding the Shaker Face.
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New York Barfly |
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What does your shaker face say about you? That’s the question that one cheeky website asks. Shaker Faces ( www.shakerfaces.com ) thinks that you can learn a lot about your bartender from the face that ... |
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May 11, 2010
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A Bar Bottles their Mixers for Retail
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New York Barfly |
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Most high-end New York cocktail bars make their ingredients in house, but only one is getting ready to bottle their mixtures and sell them retail. The West Village’s Employees Only restaurant is set ... |
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March 31, 2010
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At SXSW, a pioneer is remembered
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The Armchair Oenophile |
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It was, sadly, not the news I expected to hear at my first of many South By Southwest events in Austin last week: the news of Fess Parker's passing. For a number of us in the wine industry, Fess was a ... |
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January 25, 2010
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Angostura Bitters Shortage Affects Cocktail Boom
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New York Barfly |
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Cocktail makers might have to ration the dashes of bitters in their recipes due to a looming shortage of the popular Angostura brand. Word has it that distributors and sales reps are running low on ... |
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December 28, 2009
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Another Jägermeister Competitor Enters the Ring
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New York Barfly |
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Spirits companies have been hard at work trying to come up with their own proprietary herbal blends to counter the long time dominance of Jägermeister. In 2008, Hungarian liqueur Zwack was released to ... |
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