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5 Takeaways from the First Major Booze Fest of the Year (Playboy.com)
The San Antonio Cocktail Conference provides bartenders and booze enthusiasts with their first major hangovers of the year. These are the five most important things we learned at the Texas fest last week.
Bartender Confidential: Hangover Cures Bartenders Swear By (YouTube.com)
Playboy gathered America’s best bartenders and asked them to share their favorite hangover cures to help get you through a rough, rough morning after.
Lord, Take Me To Beer Church (Playboy.com)
Step into the beer hall at Taft's Ale House in Cincinnati, and you’ll whisper a prayer of thanks to the Father, the Son and the Holy Distilled Spirit.
Bartender Confidential: How to Pick Up a Woman at a Bar (YouTube.com)
Playboy enlisted the best bartenders in America to share the signals you should look for and the approach you should take when picking up a woman in a bar.
Bartender Confidential: Bartenders Share the Most Annoying Trends in Bartending (YouTube.com)
Playboy asked America’s best bartenders what annoyed them the most right now, from people being over educated about spirits, to arcane ingredients to social media whoring.
Bartender Confidential: Bartenders Explain Why They Kicked You Out of That Bar (YouTube.com)
Playboy gathered America’s best bartenders so they could tell us the signs they look for when cutting someone off, what kind of behavior will get people kicked out of a bar and horror stories of drunks behaving badly.
Bartender Confidential: Why You Should Stop Worrying About Whether Your Drink Is Manly or Girly (YouTube.com)
Playboy gathered America’s best bartenders to argue that the shape, color or ingredients of a drink don’t really matter—what matters is the drink tasting great.
An Idiot’s Guide to (Newly Legal) Cuban Cigars (Playboy.com)
Last month, the Obama Administration loosened its restrictions on bringing Cuban cigars and rum into the U.S. Now travelers to the communist island nation may purchase and carry home unlimited boxes of cigars and bottles of rum, as long as they pinky swear the goods are for personal consumption. So what does this mean for you, a Cuban cigar novice?
Bartender Confidential: How and Why You Should Become a Regular at a Bar (YouTube.com)
Playboy asked America’s best bartenders to tell us why you should become a bar regular and how you should go about doing it.
Bartender Confidential: What Your Drink Order Says About You (YouTube.com)
Playboy gathered America’s best bartenders to ask them what you can glean from a person through their drink order.
Bartender Confidential: What to Consider When Hitting on Your Bartender (YouTube.com)
Playboy gathered America’s best bartenders to find out how you should go about hitting on your bartender. Most importantly, they discuss the signals you should look for to make sure you don’t confuse flirting with them just doing their job well.
Bartender Confidential: Should We Get Rid of Tipping in Bars and Restaurants? (YouTube.com)
Playboy gathered some of America’s best bartenders to ask them what they thought would happen if we got rid of tipping in America.
Bartender Confidential: Bachelor or Bachelorette Party: Which Frightens Bartenders More? (YouTube.com)
Playboy gathered America’s best bartenders and asked what they feared walking in the bar more, a bachelor party or a bachelorette party?
Bartender Confidential: The Worst Songs to Play in a Bar, According to Bartenders (YouTube.com)
Playboy gathered America’s best bartenders to share the songs that make them cringe when the first few chords blare from the speakers.
Best Bars 2016: Dante, New York (Playboy Magazine, November 2016)
In Europe, day drinking—not getting drunk but patiently sipping glass after glass of low-alcohol beverages such as Campari or Aperol in a ritualistic fashion—is just part of the lifestyle. Dante, an Italian cocktail bar in Greenwich Village, is one of the first to champion this custom in America.
Bars We Love: Gramps, Miami (Playboy.com)
To the uninitiated, the biggest thing Gramps bar in Miami seems to have going for it is its A/C unit. “AIR CONDITIONING, COLD BEER, COCKTAILS,” reads the stencil across the front of the building.
Bars We Love: Sportsman’s Club, Chicago (Playboy.com)
At Sportsman’s Club bar in Chicago, restriction is freedom.
Bars We Love: Death & Co, New York (Playboy.com)
On New Years Eve 2006 a little bar named Death & Co opened in the East Village.
Best New Bars in America, 2016 (Playboy Magazine, November 2016)
Every year we search the U.S. for the top new places to get a great drink: the best spots where they take making a cocktail seriously, but don’t take themselves too seriously. After making an open call for nominations and consulting some of the best bartenders, drinks writers, and industry insiders, we came up with a list of 50 worthy finalists.