King Cocktail: How Dale DeGroff Helped Spark the Modern Cocktail Renaissance
This week on Into The Barchive, hosts Tim Wright and Dr. Blake Jones raise a glass to one of the most influential bartenders of the modern era: Dale DeGroff, better known as King Cocktail.
DeGroff didn’t just make great drinks—he helped change what American bartending could be. From fresh citrus and quality spirits to proper glassware, technique, ice, hospitality, and cocktail history, his influence can be traced through an entire generation of bartenders and many of the standards we now take for granted.
Tim and Blake trace DeGroff’s journey from working bars in Los Angeles to meeting…
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