Jeff Burkhart

Jeff Burkhart is the author of “Twenty Years Behind Bars: The Spirited Adventures of a Real Bartender” and an award-winning bartender at a local restaurant. Follow him at jeffburkhart.net and contact him at jeffbarflyIJ@outlook.com.

There are many ways to replicate higher-proof cocktails using lower-proof or no-proof alternatives.

4 great low-alcohol drinks for taking it easy

January 19, 2024 at 4:11 p.m.

There are many ways to replicate higher-proof cocktails using lower-proof or no-proof alternatives.

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4 spirited cocktails for Hanukkah

December 7, 2023 at 4:00 p.m.

This year, the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah starts at sundown on Thursday and lasts until sundown on Dec. 15.

If you make it to Italy this year, be sure to take a look around for the Aperol Spritz. It will certainly be easy to find. The Aperol Spritz is a phenomenon like no other.

The Spritz isn’t new, but it’s a phenomenon

September 28, 2023 at 2:32 p.m.

If you make it to Italy this year, be sure to take a look around for the Aperol Spritz. It will certainly be easy to find. The Aperol Spritz is...

Not to be confused with bianco vermouth, which in many cases is simply uncolored sweet vermouth, dry vermouth typically has a pronounced oxidized flavor.

3 cocktail recipes that celebrate dry vermouth

August 18, 2023 at 2:59 p.m.

Not to be confused with bianco vermouth, which in many cases is simply uncolored sweet vermouth, dry vermouth typically has a pronounced oxidized flavor.

Blended drinks are in and the blended frozen “frosé” might be the best symbol of this renewed interest in them.

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A frosé by any other name should still be slightly sweet

June 8, 2023 at 2:46 p.m.

Blended drinks are in and the blended frozen “frosé” might be the best symbol of this renewed interest in them.

So far this year we have cleared four of the five hurdles of the annual Spring Cocktail Steeplechase — Mardi Gras, Easter, Cinco de Mayo and the Kentucky Derby. If we’ve made it this far, we can probably knuckle down and make it over the last one: Mother’s Day. When Anna Jarvis first conceived of […]

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Perfect brunch cocktails to celebrate moms on Mother’s Day

May 13, 2023 at 4:06 p.m.

So far this year we have cleared four of the five hurdles of the annual Spring Cocktail Steeplechase — Mardi Gras, Easter, Cinco de Mayo and the Kentucky Derby. If...

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