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A Sacramento tiki bar is hosting a Disneyland event this week FacebookTwitterEmail Tiki drinks at The Jungle Bird in Sacramento.Courtesy of The Jungle Bird The Bay Area has some of the best tiki bars of, well, anywhere — but there’s one kind of tiki bar that not even Trader Vic himself can compete with: the magical Trader Sam’s Enchanted Tiki Bar at Disneyland, the only place in California where every cocktail comes with a taste of the most magical place on earth. The only problem? It’s 400 miles away.  Not this week, though. On Sunday, the Jungle Bird is hosting a Trader Sam’s pop...

Column: Will Artificially-Aged ‘Whiskeys’ Ever Catch On? It’s Happening Already Column: Will Artificially-Aged ‘Whiskeys’ Ever Catch On? It’s Happening Already A few years ago, I received one of the first bottles of Glyph sent over to the UK, where I live. Glyph is a ‘whiskey’ produced by San Francisco company Endless West. The company foregoes the typical costly efforts of fermentation, distillation, and maturation. Instead, it independently sources the molecular compounds typically found in good whiskey. By blending them together, the resulting drink theoretically resembles ...

zmurciuk_kGetty Images The whiskey world is built on legacy. Scotch distilleries tout 200-plus-year histories, and stateside producers find roots in the colonial era. Individual batches can be categorized by age statements with the prevailing idea that older whiskies are better. But if you’re still shopping for whiskey based on age statements alone, you’re doing it wrong. Age is one thing, but it’s maturity that really matters. Most whiskies are required to spend a minimum amount of time aging. For Scotch, Irish, and Canadian varieties, that’s three years, whereas the mandate for Jap...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/dining/drinks/whiskey-bespoken-lost-spirits.html Credit...Gabriela Hasbun for The New York Times Can a Fine Whiskey Age Overnight? That’s the claim being made by several companies that are using technology to speed their spirits to the liquor-store shelf. Credit...Gabriela Hasbun for The New York Times Published Feb. 11, 2021Updated Feb. 15, 2021 There is an old joke about business that gets told a lot in Napa Valley: How do you make a small fortune in wine? Start with a large fortune. The same goes for making whiskey. Equipment, barrels and enough space t...