KIRBY BARTH
Written for Twisted Alchemy
Summer brings warmer weather, lots of sunshine, and opportunities to spend time outside. In concentrated cities, some of the best outdoor spaces to escape to are rooftops. More specifically, a rooftop bar! When you need to deliver drinks with a fresh-squeezed taste but want to save costs on labor, time management, and waste, Twisted Alchemy is the solution.
MOCKTAILS TAKE CENTER STAGE AT THE NATIONAL RESTAURANT SHOW WITH TWISTED ALCHEMY
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Multiple studies show that younger Millennials drink less alcohol than any generation since the Greatest Generation. Seeing that the future of the bar industry may contain the same number of drinks but with less alcohol, Twisted Alchemy is crashing the National Restaurant Show with a menu of delicious, 100% cold-pressed juice mocktails!
APOGEE LOUNGE BRINGS ALCHEMY TO LIFE
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On the 26th floor of the Eurostar Hotel (formerly the Dana Hotel) sits Apogee Lounge: a hip cocktail bar with 360-degree views, delicious drinks and food items, and both outdoor and indoor seating options. Apogee is a celestial term that defines the largest distance between the moon and the earth during the moon’s orbit, and drinking cocktails at this lounge certainly feels out-of-this-world.
TWISTED ALCHEMY ELEVATES SPIRITS BEYOND THE BAR
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After meeting over a wheat-grass shot in the 90s, Twisted Alchemy co-founders Kim and Scott Holstein were destined for entrepreneurship. From gourmet pretzels to one-of-a-kind ice cream bars, they touched many audiences within the food industry. In 2016, they turned to cold-pressed juice.
THE LOLLAPALOOZA 2019 VIP EXPERIENCE INCLUDES A TASTE OF TITO’S & TWISTED ALCHEMY
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Lollapalooza is one of Chicago’s largest and most internationally acclaimed music festivals. Festival organizers are always trying to improve and enhance the festival experience. That’s why for Lollapalooza 2019, Tito’s Vodka picked Twisted Alchemy to provide the highest quality juice product for the complimentary cocktails offered in the VIP lounge.
BATCHING: MARRIOTT LEADS THE INDUSTRY IN PRODUCING COCKTAILS IN LARGE-VOLUMES WITH EASE
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Kyle Hall, the beverage manager for the Marriott Hotel Global Operations team, joined Marriott with the mission to elevate their bar program. With nearly 7,000 locations all around the world, Hall knew they needed a faster and more efficient way to produce high-quality cocktails. That’s where Twisted Alchemy cold-pressed juices stepped in.
NEW STUDY IDENTIFIES INNOVATIONS TO IMPROVE NUTRITION IN JUST 5 YEARS
Written for Food Tank
Malnutrition is a global epidemic, and two organizations have gathered a group of global experts to come up with solutions in the food supply chain that can improve nutrition in emerging economies in just five years.
7 WAYS TO SAY ‘I LOVE YOU’ WITHOUT THE WASTE ON VDAY
Written for Food Tank
Hallmark holidays are often filled with extra paper, plastic, and general waste. This year, Food Tank is giving you ideas to celebrate love while maintaining environmentally conscious actions.
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World Pulses Day is February 10th! Read about why pulses matter for global health and the environment in 10 of our favorite Food Tank articles
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A small farmer in Eastern Kenya is unifying thousands of farmers throughout Kenya using social media to address their plight, and provide a platform to learn from one another.
Read through some of the blog posts I wrote while I spent 10 weeks in Spain interviewing locals and observing food trends and traditions for my Honors Thesis in Anthropology.
See my Spoon University article about eight different recipes inspired by Game of Thrones characters. Don't forget to try some recipes yourself!
My coverage of a new arcade/gastro-bar that opened in Chicago in the summer of 2015.
CHICAGO OPENS THE CITY'S FIRST FOOD MUSEUM
I covered an article about Foodseum, Chicago's first food museum, which is an organization I volunteered for as Instagram Manager for almost 1 year.