The changing world of cocktails

A little over ten years a go a little documentary heralded the spirits world we're living in today.

Recently I rewatched Hey Bartender! Douglas Tirola’s 2013 documentary about the rapidly emerging craft cocktail world. Remember those halcyon years? Tales of the Cocktail was large but still relatively new and untrammeled. The whole idea of a craft cocktail was quarantined to a few coastal cities and the best you could expect from a hotel bar was a stif…