Bartenders report that all kinds of freakish drinks from the past have resurfaced and that weird experiments such as making milk punch with blue Gatorade in it are now standard operating procedure. chrisecrowley reports
. But bartenders are reluctant to call that drink a trendsetter, mostly because, when pressed, they had trouble identifying any real trends: Mezcal? Spritzes? Bud Light? “I don’t think there was necessarily any drink trend,” argues bartender Sarah Ku, who worked in Brooklyn before taking a job in Manhattan.
Several say that the closest we came this year to achieving anything close to a single “drink of the year” was after a clip of. At bars across America, orders for the mix of Campari and prosecco took off, and an army of PR professionals fired a barrage of “trending now” emails into the inboxes of unsuspecting journalists.
Ultimately, the people making New York’s drinks say, 2022 was a transitional year for big trends. Even if nothing new has emerged to replace it, at least one movement is definitely finished: the old timey pre-Prohibition fetish era. “I’m glad that’s over, dude,” says Rutley, the Hudson Yards bartender. “It was just a bunch of people trying to out-nerd each other.”
Where does that leave us, as we head into 2023? Nobody is quite sure, although we do have at least some clarity: There won’t be a Sex on the Beach comeback anytime soon.
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