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The 11 Best Additive-Free Tequilas According to Experts
Apr 25, 2024 · In 2020, Scarlet and Grover Sanschagrin, the founders of Tequila Matchmaker, a tequila database with the goal of advocating for greater transparency in the tequila industry, launched their Additive Free Alliance to identify brands that forgo anything but pure agave spirits.To be included, distilleries must open their doors to thorough in-person inspections, and …
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Illustration by María Hergueta. About Us. SevenFifty Daily is a James Beard Award-winning online magazine about the business and culture of the beverage alcohol industry. We analyze the issues people are talking about, uncover new insights and innovations, and explore the people, places, and traditions beyond the bottle.
Winemaking Yeasts Play a Crucial Role in Your Wine’s Flavor ...
Jun 6, 2018 · Picking Apart the Role of Yeasts. Where do winemaking yeasts come from? Any crop growing outdoors is a habitat for wild yeast colonies; the skins of grapes in a vineyard are home to a diverse variety of yeast species that throng into the fermenter with the juice.
The Science of Tannins in Wine | SevenFifty Daily
Feb 7, 2019 · Sources of Tannins. Tannins in wine can come from five sources: grape skins, seeds, stems, oak, and additives. Skin tannins are large, as they tend to polymerize more than tannins from other sources; they can be formed from as few as 4 …
Clay Vessels Making a Comeback for Fermenting and Aging Wine ...
May 16, 2018 · Clay vessels have been used to ferment and age wine since ancient times. Neolithic Age wine vessels recently found in the Republic of Georgia were tested and confirmed to be the world’s oldest.
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Buyer Picks The 9 Best World Whiskeys, According to Beverage Pros. Beverage directors and bartenders pick their favorite whiskey from lesser-known whiskey-producing countries, from a Taiwanese gold standard to a hard-to-find, small batch Spanish single malt
Decoding the Bartending Science of Clarified Cocktails
Jul 16, 2019 · At the New York City restaurant Quality Meats, Bryan Schneider, the bar director of the Quality Branded group’s restaurants in New York, Miami Beach, and Denver, serves a cocktail of one part rye whiskey and two parts Angostura bitters.It sounds potentially undrinkable, but it goes down smooth. The secret? Milk washing, or milk clarification, a technique with centuries …
The Transformation of Alcohol Distribution | SevenFifty Daily
Apr 26, 2021 · The $1.1 billion acquisition of alcohol delivery app Drizly by Uber in February was a high-profile example of how 2020 reshaped the way consumers purchase wine and spirits.. But behind the scenes within the distribution tier, where hundreds of thousands of pallet loads of product are moved through warehouses and trucked across hundreds of miles each day, the …
The Science of Wine Oxidation | SevenFifty Daily
Sep 7, 2017 · Although many of us still think “oxidation” equals bad and “oxidative” equals delicious,the terminology seems to have become a matter of hairsplitting: This spring, Bon Appétit magazine named “oxidized” its word of the year in recognition of how oxidation has become such a popular winemaking technique that it may now border on fad. ...