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bartending that went to business school and started wearing a vest.
means the craft (or pretense) of making cocktails with precision, technique, and often unnecessary theater.
from the word dates to 1856, appearing in american newspapers as a jokey term for bartending skill, then vanished for over a century until the 2000s craft-cocktail revival dusted it off and made it a job title.
word agefirst printed in 1856, not a modern invention
ice mattersa single large clear cube melts slower than crushed
smoke trendsmoking cocktails adds aroma, barely changes flavor
bitters countsome bars stock over 40 varieties of bitters
for instance
dale degroff — credited with reviving classic cocktails at the rainbow room, 1987
pdt nyc — speakeasy behind a phone booth, opened 2007, ranked world's best
employees only — opened 2004, still training bartenders in old-world technique
death co — manhattan bar that helped spark the craft cocktail boom, 2006