KCET Post: Bottle Service, in a Bottle

You want a well-crafted cocktail, but you do not have well-crafted patience. We've all been there. Going to a quaint, dimly lit cocktail bar to watch artisan bartenders meticulously mix you a drink is fine on some occasions, but other times you need booze in your mouth ASAP. Enter: pre-made bottled cocktails. Is this a thing? This is a thing.

A few years ago, a pre-made cocktail usually meant a can of pina colada from the liquor store, sipped behind a dumspter with your college friends. Tinny, shameful, disgusting: they were nothing to write home about. Unless you were asking for bail money.

But within the craft cocktail movement of the last decade, a trend has emerged and that involves bartenders crafting recipes and bottling them for service in their bars, or for distribution to less expertly-staffed watering holes. 

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