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National Martini Day; June 19th

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June 19th: National Martini Day

For National Martini Day (June 19th) we wanted to focus on a few unique variations that we have seen in a bars across the US.  These elevated and out-of-the-box martinis are sure.  Have a fun variation at your bar?  Tag us on Instagram!

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Clarified Espresso Martini A “classic” cocktail

Served at Diversion a cocktail bar in Houston, has taken the espresso martini trend to a NEW level by offering a CLEAR espresso martini.

The process to make a batch of these martinis, invented by Diversion bartender Devin Courtney, takes around eight hours and is a perfect science. He takes high grade African coffee beans, cinnamon, and star anise combined with water and vodka put into the rotating flask of the rotary evaporator (a device used in chemical laboratories for the efficient and gentle removal of solvents from samples by evaporation).

After approximately six hours of slowly increasing the heat and having the vapor re-condense around dry ice they are able to collect a completely clear espresso martini liquid, that then goes into an iSi container where it is filled with nitrous to replicate the foamy texture that a normal version of the drink would have.
The clear Espresso Martini is served in a frozen martini glass with chocolate covered almonds on the side that are made to look like olives.  Such a cool serve and a really smart and fun garnish!

Secret Garden Served At Rococo Steak in St. Pete, Florida

2 oz Kombu infused Principe de los Apostoles Gin

.5 oz Lemon Juice

.5 oz Simple Syrup

.25 oz Vinegar

Muddled Cucumber

Microgreen Garnish

Sesame Oil

Muddle cucumber and vinegar, shake ingredients with ice, strain into martini glass. Float several drops of sesame oil on top. Garnish with microgreens.

As always, please drink responsibly and #TipYourBartenders

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Cocktails for National Gin Day

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National Gin Day 2023

 

June 10th is National Gin Day and is another great excuse to drink this amazing spirit! These cocktails are far from classic Gin cocktails like the Martini and Gin & Tonic but will help you celebrate this holiday in style.

 

EMPRESS LAVENDER HAZE

2 oz. Empress 1908 Gin

1 oz. Lavender Honey Syrup

2 oz. Lemonade Lavender Sprig

Fill a stemless wine glass with crushed ice. Shake lemonade

and syrup on ice and strain into the glass. Layer

 Empress 1908 Gin on top and add more crushed ice. Garnish with a

 lavender sprig

 

Terroir Bramble

2 oz St. George Terroir Gin

1/2 oz St. George Raspberry Liqueur

1 oz fresh lemon juice

1/2 oz simple syrup

 Shake gin, lemon juice, and simple syrup with ice, then strain into a tall glass filled with crushed ice. Drizzle raspberry liqueur over the top and garnish with lemon.

Recipe by: St. George Spirits (riff on Dick Bradsell’s Bramble recipe)

Photo: Nicola Parisi

 

Miracle Agua

New Amsterdam Gin
ginger beer
muddled strawberries
rhubarb bitters
lime
topped with a skewered strawberry and mint sprig.

 

West of Eden

This drink is featured at the  newly opened Graduate Palo Alto, and created by acclaimed mixologist Bad Birdy.

Vodka
Gin
 Watermelon juice
Lime
Cucumber
Monk fruit fennel syrup

 

Monaco Rush

Photo Crédit: Studio Phenix


The Gardener Gin
Peach coulis and liqueur
Blackcurrant cream
Mint
Lemon juice.

Enjoy your National Gin Day Responsibly and be sure to #TipYourBartender

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Actress Margot Robbie launches Papa Salt Gin

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The newest celebrity to join the spirit owner group is Actress Margot Robbie.  She has announced the launch of her new gin, Papa Salt.  She will join fellow celebrity gin owners, Ryan Reynolds, Emma Watson and newly announced, Brad Pitt with his Gin, The Gardener Gin

Robbie and her gin-loving friends (and husband) dreamt of creating their own spirit with a simple goal of creating a gin that will compliment any soda, taste great with tonic, and make a mean martini. Fifty nine recipes, and many joy filled sunny afternoons of gin tasting later, we present you with Papa Salt.

Papa Salt is an easy-drinking gin that celebrates the subtle taste of native Australian botanicals. Flavours are brightened with zesty wax flower, hibiscus and citrus peel—all wrapped up with subtle hints of nutty wattleseed, the mild spice of pink peppercorn and an unmistakable minerality from a hint of oyster shell.  Yes, there’s a lot to it, but in the end we hope you notice just how easy it is to drink.

Have it long or short, this gin was made for sessionable drinking — our go-to is a generous pour of Papa Salt, with soda, lots of ice and a wedge of fresh grapefruit.

The gin is bottled at 43% ABV and is made in Byron Bay, Australia. It is available to purchase via Iconic Beverages for RRP AU$85 (US$56.86).

Signature serves:

PAPA’S SALTY DOG

50ml Papa Salt Coastal Gin

100ml Grapefruit juice

Lime wedge

Crushed Ice

Sea salt

Salt the rim of a well chilled highball glass. In a cocktail shaker combine ice, Papa Salt & grapefruit juice. Shake until well chilled and strain into prepared glass with crushed ice. Finish with lime wedge. It’s fresh.

 

DIRTY DRY MARTINI

50ml Papa Salt Coastal Gin

10ml Noilly Prat Vermouth

20ml of olive brine

Nocellara Olives

In a mixing glass, combine Papa Salt Gin, Noilly Prat Vermouth and olive brine over rocks of ice. Stir with a bar spoon for at least 30 seconds until the dilution is well chilled and smooth to taste. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with 3 olives skewered through a rosemary stem. Sip slowly (or quickly).

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Brad Pitt launches The Gardener Gin at the Carlton during the 2023 Cannes Film Festival

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Brad Pitt has entered the spirits industry chat with his launch of The Gardener Gin!  Brad, the Perrin Family and Tom Nichol announced the launch of The Gardener Gin, which will be officially presented at the Carlton during the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.

To celebrate the reopening of this famous French Riviera hotel, the iconic “Secret Garden” cocktail has been created by its bartenders in collaboration with the gin legend ,Tom Nichol, one of the world’s pre-eminent Master Distiller. Radiating the French Riviera spirit around the world, The Gardener Gin celebrates an incomparable Night & Day art-de-vivre that the exceptional Cannes Festival has embodied for over half a century.

After amassing over 40 years of experience in the art of making gin – he forged his name at Tanqueray where he perfected his craft and received Lifetime Achievement Award from the Gin Guild in 2015 – Tom Nichol decided to create the ultimate London Dry Gin that he has always dreamed of. Like a rare organic grand cru, with a unique, intense taste, The Gardener Gin is a return to the classic, combining both purity of flavor and elegance thanks to the exceptional quality of its fresh citruses. Made from wheat in copper stills, the gin rests upon a canvas of juniper, licorice, angelica and coriander. It is a melding of lush greens and brilliant golds, laced through with an unconventional blend of both fresh and dry citruses – pink grapefruit, bright lemon and the yin and yang of sweet and bitter orange from Cap d’Antibes area.

Matthieu Perrin (co-founder): “The light of the French Riviera is a lifeblood. Here, in this place blessed by the gods, the earth is tended by The Gardener. The Gardener works in harmony with the shifts of the season, the exchange of warmth and cold, the pleasures of living well. With the wisdom of experience, the gift of intuition, the whim of experimentation, The Gardener builds a recipe that combines the mystery of nature with the pleasure of knowledge. The Gardener tends earth, time, all the while guarding a way of life that exists nowhere else in the world.”

From Christian Dior and Brigitte Bardot to Grace Kelly and The Rolling Stones, the French Riviera is a place dreamers and artists have sought for centuries. Its citrus groves and honeysuckle hedges have called to Picasso; its gentle hills to Cézanne; its regal cypresses to Van Gogh; its fairytale forests to Matisse. Over many long afternoons and evenings spent sharing in the abundance of the land, the Famille Perrin and Brad Pitt birthed an idea. An endeavor to create a mirror of the French Riviera – to bottle up its very essence so that the world, too, might experience its beauty. Within those moments of conviviality, they dreamed up a spirit that could convey the light, aromas and flavors of the land. Instinctively, they knew it must be a gin, a spirit with the rare ability to translate terroir. A gin of the French Riviera, The Gardener would encapsulate the art-de-vivre – the art of living – in this special place. Each an expert of their craft, the Perrins and Brad sought an equal who could bring their vision to life. In Tom Nichol, somebody with the same commitment to quality without compromise, they observed a shared pursuit of beauty. With this triptych of creators, The Gardener was born of a mutual love of the French Riviera and all its art de vivre.

Will you be trying this new Gin!?  Let us know!

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Spring has Sprung with these Tasty Cocktails

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Our Spring Issue of Bartender, which is viewable on the main page of our site, www.Bartender.com, has a great article on Spring cocktails!  But, there are so many more to see and feature from Bartenders around the world.

We wanted to continue to showcase a few like these ones below!

Filthy Animal
Featured at L.A. Jackson, Nashville, Tennessee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.5 oz Lairds Brandy
.75 oz PX Sherry
.25 oz Falernum
.25 ozCrème deCacao
.5o z Grenadine
.125 ozGingerSyrup
1oz Cranberry juice
.75oz lemon juice
Splash of Ginger Ale

Start with 1.5oz of Lairds Brandy in a shaker.  Add in .75oz of PX Sherry.  Add in .25oz Falernum.  Add in .25oz of Creme de Cacao. Add .5oz of Grenadine to the shaker.  Add .125oz of Ginger syrup, Add 1oz of Cranberry juice, Squeeze in.75oz of Lemon juice (or half of a small lemon).  Shake.  Then top it off with a splash of Ginger Ale.

 

NEGRONI BIANCO
Featured at Osteria Lupo, New Orleans, LA 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3/4 oz Plymouth Gin
3/4 oz Suzed’Autrefoi
1/2 oz Alpe Lys
2 bar spoons Rothman & Winter Orchard Apricot
3 drops Bitterman’s Hopped Grapefruit Bitters

Stir and strain over largerock.  Express and garnish with generous grapefruit peel.

 

Red Seal of Shimoda
Featured at Sushi By Scratch, Coconut Grove, FL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 oz pomegranate juice
1/4 oz port
1/4 oz lemon
1/2 oz honey
1 1/2 Toki Suntory Whisky

Combine all ingredients in a shaker. Shake and garnish with matcha green tea salt on rim of cocktail glass using lemon juice.  Serve in a Nic & Nora glass.

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Toast to the 2023 Oscars with these celebratory cocktails

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In honor of The Oscars 2023 / 95th Academy Awards we gathered up some celebratory cocktails!  Including some Don Julio cocktails from our friend and globally acclaimed mixologist Charles Joly!

 

The Green Room just launched a newly crafted cocktail called “All Eyes on Me”

All Eyes on Me

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2 oz Absolut Elyx

.75 oz house made Caroline raspberry syrup (Caroline Raspberries are a large luscious varietal)

.75 oz fresh lemon juice

Topped with grand marnier molecular foam

Glistening gold sugar sail – resembling an Oscar Award

 

SHOWTIME MARGARITA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 ½ oz Tequila Don Julio Blanco

½ oz Sage & Mint Syrup

⅛ oz Juiced Galangal (Ginger)

¾ oz Fresh Lime Juice

Add all ingredients in a shaker with ice.

Shake vigorously and strain into a coupe glass.

Garnish with sage & mint bunch gold-clipped to the rim of the glass.

 

Hair of the Hound Dog

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 oz Bombay Sapphire Gin

½ oz Noilly Prat Original Dry Vermouth

½ oz Elderflower cordial

½ oz Fresh apple juice

2 oz Chilled ginger ale

Garnish: Gold leaf, pineapple leaves

 

Whale Hello There

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2 oz Gray Whale Gin

.5 oz fresh lime juice

.5 oz fresh lemon juice

.5 oz agave syrup

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice and pour in the gin, lime juice, lemon juice and agave. Shake vigorously and strain into a chilled coupe or martini glass, or strain over a rocks glass filled with ice. Garnish with a lemon twist and serve immediately.

 

DIRECTOR’S MARTINI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 ½ oz Tequila Don Julio 70 Cristalino

½ oz Fortified Aperitif Wine

¼ oz Gin

3 dashes Moroccan Bitters

Hand-Stuffed Nopalito & Cotija Cheese Olives (Garnish)

Add all ingredients into a mixing glass with ice.  Stir thoroughly. Strain into chilled martini glass.  Garnish with hand-stuffed nopalito & cotija cheese olives.

 

Where will you be working OR what will you be drinking on this Oscar Sunday!?

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Big Game Cocktails

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The teams are set and the cocktails are here!  Who you rooting for?

Red Zone Punch

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Serves 20
1 bottle of Sobieski Vodka (750 ml)
8 oz. orange liqueur
6 oz. orange juice
8 oz. cranberry juice
6 oz. pineapple juice
Champagne
Lemon slices for garnish

Add all ingredients into bowl and stir generously.  Top with lemon slices for garnish.   Top with Champagne to taste.

Hail Mary

Finaliced-tea

½ oz. Sobieski Vodka
½ oz. Triple Sec
½ oz. green-apple schnapps
½ oz. Botran Rum
½ oz.  Ungava Gin
3 oz. ice tea
Lime slice for garnish. Serve over ice.

Pass Interference

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1 oz. Lucid Absinthe
1 oz. Sobieski Vanilia Vodka
4 oz. cola
1 mint sprig Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and strain into a highball glass. Garnish with a sprig of mint.

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Summer Shack

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1 (750-ml) bottle Sauvignon Blanc
8 oz. gin
8 oz. Lillet Blanc
4 oz. St-Germain
12 dashes orange bitters

Place all of the ingredients in a large pitcher and stir to combine. Serve in chilled wine glasses garnished with a lemon twist.

Raspberry Cocktail

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8 oz. dry white wine
1 cup fresh raspberries
6 oz. gin
1 oz. freshly squeezed lime juice
1 oz. simple syrup
1/2 oz. Kirsch
Lightly mash 1 cup of the raspberries in a bowl. Pour in the gin and let sit at room temperature for 2 hours. Place the raspberries and gin in a blender and blend until smooth. Place a fine-mesh strainer over a medium bowl and strain the mixture. Discard the solids. Combine raspberry mixture, wine, lime juice, simple syrup, Kirsch, and ice cubes. Blend well. Pour into 6 cocktail glasses, garnish with raspberries.

Beauty Elixir

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¼ oz. Rose Wine
1½ oz. Gin
½ oz. strawberry puree
¼ oz. lemon juice
¼ oz. simple syrup
2 cucumber slices

Muddle cucumber in a cocktail shaker. Add ice and remaining ingredients except wine. Shake and strain into a glass. Top with sparkling wine.

Princess of the Hive

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1 oz. Moscato
1 oz. gin
1 oz. lemon juice
½ oz. Peach Schnapps
½ oz. simple syrup (mix equal parts hot water and sugar until sugar is dissolved)

Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake and strain into a glass.

Spinnaker Sling

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3 parts London dry gin
2 parts spiced rum
2 parts ginger ale
1 part elderflower cordial
Juice squeezed from 1/4 lime
Lime peel

Shake well with ice, strain into Martini glass. Squeeze 1/4 lime into cocktail. Serve with lime peel and single ice cube.

James Parkin
Cafe Goût
Hampshire, UK

The Green Flower

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‪Bombay Sapphire Gin‬
Kiwi fruit
basil leaves
sugar syrup
lime juice
top off with luxurious champagne!

No/6 Bar & Lounge
St. James Hotel
Nottingham, United Kingdom

Mr. Miyagi

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1 oz. vodka
1 oz. gin
1 oz. light rum
1 oz. triple sec
3 oz. Pomwonderful Blueberry Pomegranate juice

Fill shaker with ice, give a shake then pour. Garnish with kiwi slices or pineapple chunks.

Troy & Jenny Anderson
Top Shelf Bartenders
Fort Smith, AR

Ramos Fizz

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2 oz. gin
1 oz. heavy cream
1 egg white
1/2 oz. lemon juice
1/2 oz. lime juice
2 tsp. superfine sugar
2 to 3 drops orange flower water

Combine in a chilled cocktail shaker with plenty of cracked ice, then shake for at least one minute and strain into a chilled Collins glass. Top up with cold seltzer or club soda.

French 75

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2 oz. Champagne
1/2 oz. lemon juice
1 oz. gin
2 dashes simple syrup

Combine gin, syrup, and lemon juice in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously and strain into a champagne glass. Top up with Champagne. Stir gently.

Tom Collins

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2 oz. gin
1 oz. lemon juice
1 tsp. superfine sugar
3 oz. club soda

In a shaker with ice, combine the gin, lemon juice, and sugar. Shake well. Strain into a collins glass with ice. Top with club soda. Stir and garnish with a cherry and the orange slice.

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