So, you’re putting the finishing touches on a new menu for your bar, after weeks or even months of exhaustive and costly research and development, and are bursting with excitement to share your vision with the world. “This menu is going to fucking annihilate the universe," you think. “It will place us atop the mountain of the world’s greatest bars and we will rain clarified, lactofermented everything down upon humanity while doing our part to save the planet and foster peace

One of the most powerful tools in the modern bartenders arsenal & one of the techniques that has become more & more present in cocktail bars around the world is use of acids as replacement for citrus in cocktails. Through the ‘Molecular Mixology’ revolution that has swept the bartending world all over we have started experimenting with citric, malic, tartaric & ascorbic acids frequently. One of the important things to understand is that acids are all around us in different co

The holy grail of bartenders cabinets everywhere the infamous order of the Carthusian monks who take a vow of silence while producing a liqueur that many of us reach for when we need a little 'herbal' quality in a drink. The history of this crazy concoction goes way back to the point where it ws once considered the "elixir of long life". LETS DIVE IN! François Annibal d’Estrées, a 33 year old artillery marshal, was an emerging figure in the French army & devotee to King Hen

Although the phrase ‘Molecular Mixology’ has been highly used & misused in the last 6 years it seems like the trend isn’t going anywhere as bartenders from all over the world have been trying to get their hands of centrifuges, rotavaps & even more rarely The PolyScience Sonicprep ultrasonic homogenizer. Having previously worked with a centrifuge & a rotovap on our travels with Cocktails For You it was the ‘Sonicprep’ that was always out of our reach. Problem is will all thi