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Dylan Garret

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Editorial director for Food & Wine and Liquor. Not active on Twitter, find my email if you need me.

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Dylan Garret’s Biography

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Editorial director for Food & Wine, Liquor.com, and a veteran of New York City’s bar and restaurant scene, Dylan Garret has lived, breathed, and sweated spirits for nearly two decades.

A former bartender with experience ranging from Michelin-starred restaurants to local Brooklyn pubs, before joining Liquor.com Garret was the senior digital editor at Wine Enthusiast, where from 2015 to 2022 he helped shape the magazine's coverage and wrote regular columns on spirits, cocktails, bartending, and …

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Announcing the 2022 Liquor Awards

Announcing the 2022 Liquor Awards

Liquor.com is thrilled to introduce the Liquor Awards. Our aim is to recognize the drinks-industry profession…

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The Eight Essential Scotch Whisky Bottles for Your Home Bar

The Eight Essential Scotch Whisky Bottles for Your Home Bar

Scotch whisky experts share their top picks, including single malts from Bruichladdich and Glen Scotia and a …

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Liquor Legend, Liquor Awards 2022: Dale DeGroff

Liquor Legend, Liquor Awards 2022: Dale DeGroff

It's not an understatement to say modern bartending wouldn't exist in its current form without Dale DeGroff. …

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The Gimlet Is One of History's Best Cocktails-Here's the Recipe To Make It Right

The Gimlet Is One of History's Best Cocktails-Here's the Recipe To Make It Right

The gimlet is a cocktail based on gin and lime juice that dates to the 1800s, putting its age in company with…

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Bartender Basics: What Are Top Shelf Liquors, And Does It Matter?

Bartender Basics: What Are Top Shelf Liquors, And Does It Matter?

The liquor world is full of a dizzying number of terms meant to denote quality. Most are unregulated buzzword…

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The Rusty Nail Cocktail Is a Forgotten Classic That Deserves the Spotlight

The Rusty Nail Cocktail Is a Forgotten Classic That Deserves the Spotlight

The Rusty Nail cocktail is a Scotch throwback to the post-Prohibition era of the 1930s. In nearly a century s…

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We Tasted and Ranked 10 Oktoberfest Beers — the Best Wasn’t From Germany Original

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While there are many seasonal styles of beer, few are as well-known as Oktoberfest. The annual gathering in Munich usually attracts 6 million to 7 million passionate beer drinkers, and its reach has gone global, with Oktoberfest-style beers brewed across the world, from Germany to New Zealand. Oktoberfest didn’t begin as a beer festival but rather as five days of festivities celebrating the wedding of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen in 1810.
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The 1-Ingredient Upgrade America’s Best Restaurant Uses in Their Old Fashioned

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Few cocktails are as endlessly riffed upon as the Old Fashioned, but its familiarity is a double-edged sword. A drink everyone knows is also a drink many will already have strong opinions about. This makes the staying power of John’s Old Fashioned, at John’s Food & Wine in Chicago, even more impressive. One of the founding cocktails when the restaurant opened in the Lincoln Park neighborhood in 2023, it embodies much of what makes John’s, our 2026 Restaurant of the Year, excel.
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We Tested 6 Mexican Lagers — the Best Wasn’t the One Most Americans Buy Original

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Mexican lagers have come to dominate the American beer market, accounting for about 80% of the total volume of beer imported into the U.S. in 2025. In 2023, one brand — Modelo Especial —even overtook domestically produced Bud Light, ending its 22-year reign as the country’s top-selling beer.
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What tools and software do you use to do your job?

MS Office, Google Docs, Adobe CS, a PC, WordPress, Post-its, pens and many tiny scraps of paper at the bottom of my bag. Mostly the latter.

What's your favorite social network?

The Holler, my local bar.

What's your favorite drink?

Bodega coffee.