Cocktails | Zero Proof
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🫒INTEL — Station Six is open in the former Engine 6 fire house at the corner of Swan + Jefferson in downtown Albany, N.Y. We chat with owner, Mexican designer Jordan Cambron, about his cafe-bakery, cold brew + cans to go.
Seth Jones, Head Bartender at Mirador in Kingston talks fine art photography, building community + sherry cocktails.
Hamlet & Ghost Bar Director Sonia Castellani is known for her culinary, clarified cocktails. Here she combines the fresh fruit of her French childhood with marshmallow fluff + milk tea.
For the official launch of Saratoga Maiden at Lucy’s in Saratoga, we talked with Pinhook Bourbon’s master blender, Sean Josephs about creating a Saratoga blend, his winemaker approach, and the future of American whiskey.
Sonia Castellani, bar director of Hamlet & Ghost in Saratoga Springs, talks about growing up in France, the importance of culinary flavors + the women who inspired her career.
At Hamlet & Ghost, the team leans on kitchen ingredients to coax flavors out of cocktails. Bar Director Sonia Castellani’s hot pink Ube Milk Punch is a clear case of less is more.
Open 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., but breakfast cocktails + happy hour is a real thing at the brand new Little City Luncheonette in Albany, N.Y.
Bartender, trainer + wellness coach Trinel McDermott (June Farms/McGeary’s) shows us how to craft a bittersweet Lady Marmalade cocktail for The Dishing’s Zero-Proof series.
Will Hoschek, bar director of Itameshi in Albany’s Warehouse District, talks hot cocktails, kosho, ferments + why he came back to the industry he loves.
Bartender, trainer + wellness coach Trinel McDermott (June Farms/McGeary’s) uses Monday Gin + Sentia Red to craft a N/A No-Groni for The Dishing’s Bartender Series.
INTEL: Welcome to The Hi-Note in Saratoga Springs. Canned beer, a Fernet club, wood-clad walls + ‘80s basement vibes are all in place at The Hi-Note.
Kat Dunn (Padrona, Hudson) brings the heat in ‘Smoke Signals,’ her spicy, Lapsang Souchong tea dupe of a boozier original for The Dishing’s ZERO PROOF cocktail series.
We ask 7 bartenders if zero-proof cocktails are here to stay. They’re all in.