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BUYER ’ S GUIDE BE VER AGE

16 Alley Twenty Six Cocktail Mixers Award-winning cocktail bar and restaurant Alley Twenty Six expanded its line of premium cocktail mixers to include pome granate and passionfruit, the latter of which won the N.C. Speciality Food contest. In addition to these new varieties, the line includes strawberry, raspberry, blood orange, and tonic syrup. (Read more on page 34 .) J alleytwentysixsyrups.com

tom beverages. The fresh juice mixer can be sim ply paired with seltzer or blended into cock tails and nonalcoholic libations. Strawberry & Lemon flavor is also among the new releases. J shop.freshvictor.com 15 Neutral Beverage Base Monin Americas’ Neutral Beverage Base is a fla vorless, clean-label prod uct that imparts a thicker, smoother consistency in frozen beverages, like milkshakes, frozen lem onades, iced lattes, and cocktails. The 64-ounce operator-friendly bottle delivers the same thick ening and consistency benefits of powdered frappé bases, but with just the press of a pump. J monin.com

BOTTOMS UP Beverage options are trending toward extremes, with light, refreshing mixers on one end and smooth, luxurious sips on the other.

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13 Nitro-Charged, Ready-to-Drink Coffee Fire Department Coffee’s first foray into the ready-to drink space leverages the same proprietary process the brand developed six years ago. Its flagship flavor, Nitro Irish Cream, infuses real whiskey and cream into coffee but is still nonalcoholic. The other three variet ies are Nitro-Charged Latte, Nitro-Charged Shellback Espresso, and Nitro Vanilla Bean Bourbon. J firedeptcoffee.com

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14 Grapefruit & Sea Salt Juice Mixer One of the latest fla vors in the Fresh Victor line of premium, cold pressed juice mixers bal ances the tart and sweet notes of grapefruit with the savory bite of sea salt. Each 64-ounce bot tle yields about 21 cus

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