Diffords Guide
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Simon Difford is responsible for uniting the international cocktail community. He started Difford’s Guide Class magazine in August 1997 and with Difford’s passion for the cocktail culture, it grew from 16 pages to 150 monthly glossy pages, but then the Internet took over and he was forced to sell. Difford was able to take it back over in 2009 and in 2010 won a Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Award. In 2014, the printed magazine was laid to rest, and now everything is online. It’s highly recommended to join his newsletter to receive updates. The information on this site is rich and immense.

 

Imbibe

Imbibe launched in 2005 and immediately started winning awards. This drink magazine (and now you can get it digital online) quenched a thirst for the growing craft cocktail movement at the time. Some of its many awards include a 2012 James Beard Journalism Award for Best Wine, Spirits or Other Beverage Writing, four Maggie Awards, and two Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards.

 

Liquor

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Liquor is a James Beard Award-winning and Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Award-winning digital publication dedicated to good drinking and great living. They employ a huge network of award-winning writers, master mixologists, and spirits experts who travel the globe. Their top-shelf board of advisors are the best in the business: Jacques Bezuidenhout, Dale “King Cocktail” DeGroff, H. Joseph Ehrmann, Simon Ford, Allen Katz, Jim Meehan, Gary Regan, Julie Reiner, Aisha Sharpe, Willy Shine, and David Wondrich.

 

Other current and cocktail online magazines include bartender.com and chilled.com.

 

Modern Drunkard Magazine

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Modern Drunkard Magazine is a little on the crusty side, but can be entertaining—a junk food drinking mag, if you will. Boston saloon owner Hiram Flannery Rich started it in 1905 when a critic from the Boston Globe gave his saloon a bad review. Rich handwrote ten rebuttal newsletter issues, then handed them out to his regulars to read. It was a hit so Rich started a regular newsletter that was first called Genteel Drunkards Drink at Hiram Rich’s Real Irish Saloon, but after the Great Fire of 1909, he launched a Boston-wide edition, renaming it the Genteel Drunkard. The first editions were crude, obscene, and controversial to the point where the Women’s Christian Temperance Union with their hatchets raided the magazine office four times. This made the publication even more popular. During Prohibition, the magazine was renamed Modern Drunkard Magazine and would give a list of passwords to speakeasies. Today, it’s an online magazine, and you can browse online issues in their archive.

 

Punch

punchdrink.com

Punch is a James Beard Award-winning online magazine in collaboration with Ten Speed Press that writes about cocktails, spirits, wine, and beer.

 

Bar Business

barbizmag.com

Since 2008, Bar Business has been providing owners, operators, and managers the opportunity to find out what is going on in the nightlife industry, and more importantly, how to benefit from it all and better their own business. We are the “How-to” resource for the nightlife industry, with nearly 100,000 qualified readers nationwide.

 

Chilled

chilledmagazine.com

Chilled Magazine features new products within the drinking and nightlife community and stories on the founders, distilleries and breweries in the market. Their mixology section highlights the latest in industry trends and the hottest new cocktails that bartenders are creating around the country. 

 

Whiskey Advocate

http://whiskyadvocate.com

Since 2008, Bar Business has been

 

The Tasting Panel

tastingpanelmag.com

In May of 2007, Anthony Dias Blue joined forces with Meridith May to create this publication.