The Mixing Glass | ELEVATE & Chilled Media | Guest Shift - Dale DeGroff & Ted Breaux

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Coming to you live from Louisville, Kentucky - the Bardtenders attended the ELEVATE conference hosted and sponsored by Chilled Media! During the conference, we had the opportunity to talk with some amazing hospitality professionals and we can't wait for you to hear their stories!
In this episode, we had the chance to talk to some titans in the world of hospitality - Dale DeGroff & Ted Breaux. Join us as we talk about their careers and their new creations from DeGroff Spirits!
Dale DeGroff is celebrated for sparking the classic cocktail revival in New York's famous Rainbow Room in the 1990's, Dale DeGroff reinvented the bartending profession, igniting a global cocktail renaissance that continues today. Dale's contributions are credited with two James Beard Awards, the Tales of the Cocktail Lifetime Achievement Award, Wine Enthusiast's 2019 Cocktail Legend Award, and many others. In what began as a quest to create an artisanal spirit befitting of classic cocktail excellence, Dale forged a collaboration with Ted Breaux, renowned Absinthe Expert and Master Distiller.
Ted Breaux is a research scientist and world-renowned absinthe expert. Ted Breaux carefully reverse-engineered vintage absinthes. He worked diligently with the TTB to get a 95-year ban on the sale of absinthe in the US repealed and in 2007, Lucid Absinthe, created by Breaux, became the first genuine absinthe to be available for sale in the US. Distilled in strict accordance with traditional French methods in the historic Combier Distillery in the Loire Valley of France, his award-winning absinthes are distilled with whole European herbs, free of artificial flavors, colors, or added sugar. As a result of a deep friendship with Dale, and his knowledge of working with botanicals, Ted was invited to join Dale in the development of DeGroff's Bitter Aperitivo and New World Amaro.
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