Beverage

Hong Kong’s Penicillin, winner of the 2021 Ketel One Sustainable Bar Award, is more than green. It’s a new shade of super-ultra-green.

On the menu, you’ll find vodka infused with scrap bread, rum flavored with used tea leaves, and the One Penicillin, One Tree cocktail, which funds the planting of a Mallotus muticus tree in Borneo. The bar’s tables were built with tropical storm debris, and even the lights were salvaged.

Does it all sound a little… fussy? Here’s the kicker: Penicillin owners Agung Prabowo and Roman Ghale also operate a traditional dive bar, Dead&, that serves cocktails on tap and canned beers. Dead& provides ingredient sourcing for Penicillin, Agung tells 50 Best — for instance, Dead&’s discarded paper cups are recycled to make coasters, menus and labels for Penicillin.

The moral of the story: Whether you run an upscale cocktail bar or a neighborhood watering hole, sustainability is within reach. All it takes is creativity and collaboration.

In case you missed them, here are the Top 5 most-read posts from our four blogs for the month that just ended, December 2021.
 

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Happy New Year! As we take a moment to pause and reflect on the year that's passed, let's take a look back at the posts that pulled in the most views in 2021 across all four of the Hamilton Beach Commercial® blogs. We've expanded this list to the "Top 6" because Kahlua Colada keeps on taking up a spot. 

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As we roll into the end of the year, we're pulling together our top blog posts from our Beverage blog for 2021. Here is our most popular content for the year. See any surprises? 

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In case you missed them, here are the Top 5 most-read posts from our four blogs for the month that just ended, November 2021.
 

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In case you missed them, here are the Top 5 most-read posts from our four blogs for the month that just ended, October 2021.
 

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In case you missed them, here are the Top 5 most-read posts from our four blogs for the month that just ended, September 2021.
 

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Dessert or a drink? How about both in one glass?

There’s something delightful about a frozen drink that’s as pretty, palate-pleasing and carefully constructed as a fancy dessert. They don’t have to be overly sweet. The key difference is thoughtfulness: “taking something basic that everyone understands and building it out to a memorable experience. In this case, sometimes less is more, but a balanced recipe, great ingredients,

 elevated glassware, and creative presentation tells a story in itself,” Andrew Pollard, Beverage Innovation Director at Monin,tells Bar Business.

Bartenders are creating sophisticated new takes on frozen cocktails that incorporate fresh, plant-based and housemade ingredients. A high-performance commercial blender is the last ingredient you need to craft frozen dessert drinks with the perfect consistency: no grainy texture or chunks of ice. Consider putting your own spin on a few of these drinks and adding them to your menu.

Smoothies will never grow old.

They’re always being reinvented: as an afternoon pick-me-up, a pre-workout booster, a post-workout reward, a meal replacer, a refreshing breakfast, or an indulgent dessert. Consumer tastes have evolved right along with them, as smoothie fans continually ask more from their drink. What do on-trend smoothies look like right now?  

In case you missed them, here are the Top 5 most-read posts from our four blogs for the month that just ended, August 2021.
 

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