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Tip Your Bartender: Rum Club, Portland, OR
Micah Anderson adapts the El Presidente, subbing vodka for the rum for a lighter, more delicate drink.
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- illustration: Nick Hensley
Tip Your Bartender: Lone Wolf, Chicago
Kristina Magro and Greg Fleming’s Midwestern take on a Cosmopolitan replaces the traditional cranberry base with an unexpected pop of citrus.
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Tip Your Bartender: Service Bar, Washington, D.C.
This French 75 variation incorporates some of bartender Glendon Hartley’s favorite memories of summer in the Cognac region.
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- illustration: Nick Hensley
Tip Your Bartender: Purple Pineapple Project, Brooklyn
Channing Centeno gives the classic spritz template a modern update with St-Germain and citrus-laced German wheat beer.
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- illustration: Nick Hensley
Let’s Not Just “Stick to Drinks”
Now is the time for acknowledgment, action and lasting change. Here are some places to start.
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Tip Your Bartender: Wildhawk, San Francisco
One of Wildhawk's more popular gin-based cocktails, the Proper Cup blends fortified and aromatized wines with an elegant amaro.
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- illustration: Nick Hensley
Tip Your Bartender: Portland Hunt & Alpine Club, Portland, ME
Portland Hunt & Alpine Club's Days Like This is an easy year-round drink that can be appreciated by the pros while also serving as a great introduction to rum cocktails.
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- illustration: Nick Hensley
Tip Your Bartender: Polite Provisions, San Diego
The Princess Peach Daiquiri is an in-house favorite at Polite Provisions.
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Tip Your Bartender: Bad Hunter, Chicago
Bad Hunter’s closed-loop highball reuses the portion of leeks traditionally discarded in the cooking process to create a vegetal syrup.
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Tip Your Bartender: Beaker & Gray
Beaker & Gray’s riff on the Daiquiri incorporates the flavors of coffee, pineapple and plantains for an even more tropical spin on the classic cocktail.
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- illustration: Nick Hensley