Story | Bruce Farr Photography | Grace Stufkosky Have you ever tasted real sake? If you’re like many diners, you’ve been to a Japanese restaurant and, as a novelty perhaps, tried a version of the iconic Japanese drink,…
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Story | Angela Muñiz Photography | Mark Lipczynski If water is a finite resource, does that mean we could one day run out… and live in a world without beer? It’s the kind of deep thought…
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Story | Lauren Saria Photography | Mark Lipczynski If you’ve ever tried to brew beer or cider at home, then you know fermentation is hard to control. It means forcing the chemical breakdown of a substance to…
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Story | Shelby Moore Photography | Mark Lipczynski Connor Mansager insists there isn’t pressure for bartenders to fill a cocktail menu with the produce, products and terroir of Tucson, but clearly there’s an audience for it in…
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Story | Angela Muñiz Photography | Mark Lipczynski Ask a barista at a specialty coffee shop what kind of coffee you should order and they’ll probably start by telling you where the different choices are from….
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Story | Sally J. Clasen Photography | Mark Lipczynski A career as a professional bartender—let alone accolades as one of the Valley’s best—wasn’t exactly on Robert Porter’s radar when he got his first job in the…
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