It seems as if most of the cocktail world has been focused more on spirits and bitters than on the category of liqueurs. This is unfortunate, as liqueurs are not only such a key flavoring and balancing ingredient in so many cocktails but they can be such a key component in a customer’s experience, whether served as a cordial or as an ingredient in culinary dishes or desserts.

Trends by Dress the Drink and insider info from David Wondrich, Doug Frost, Christine Sismondo and many more. Plus common hangover remedies and prevention – fact or fiction?

Full story on beverage trends by Dress the Drink and insider info from David Wondrich, Doug Frost, Christine Sismondo and many more. Plus common hangover remedies and prevention – fact or fiction?

The impressive rise in high-quality cocktails and cocktail menus in hotels is real and it’s sustainable. But all too often there’s one substandard ingredient – ice.

“Rock & Rye can be served hot with excellent effect to fight off colds, influenza’s, miasmas, megrims, swamp mists, and blackwater fevers. In fact any sort of excuse seems to work.” – Charles H. Baker, Jr., The Gentleman’s Companion, 1946

Secret passages, gangsters, and bootlegging . . . these scream Boardwalk Empire, but they are all true historical aspects of the Canadian Club Distillery in Windsor, Canada.

“Hangover Coach” Kendra Strasburg of CRAVE Health passes along suggestions for getting through the New Year’s Eve festivities without spending the first morning of the year worshipping the porcelain gods.
 Several cocktail recipes.

Korbel Poinsettia and Champagne Cocktail Recipes

Besides including the perfect Southern cocktails, it includes gorgeous photography by her husband, Robert Peacock. What a creative team these two are. Courtesy of With a Southern Twist (withasoutherntwist.com).

itM takes another humorous look at drinks across the states with such recipes as the ‘Velvet Elvis’ and ‘Bart Simpson.’

DEWAR’S 12 Year Old is a luxuriously rich, fruity and smooth blend. Take our Scotch Whisky quiz.

The St. Regis Atlanta will spice up the holidays with twelve festive libations in the spirit of the Twelve Days of Christmas Cocktails. Courtesy of With a Southern Twist.

STOLI Chocolat Razberi delivers lush milk chocolate accented by warm vanilla-cocoa notes; a sensual, velvety texture with a clean finish enhanced by the true essence of ripe red berries. STOLI CHOCO RAZ MARTINI and STOLI CHOCO RAZ WHITE RUSSIAN recipes inside along with chocolate trivia questions.

The need for illy’s brand of education is one of the key things that separates the on-premise coffee business from the on-premise wine business today. In coffee, that kind of training – in this case, getting the product into the cup – is desperately needed because the product for a coffee roaster like illy is not the finished product that the consumer drinks.

The International Bartender Association held its 37th annual World Cocktail Championship in November and this year, so far, there have been no fewer than a dozen national cocktail competitions. Many spirits brands and notable mixers are involved.