“Can you make me a Hollow Point?”
As a young cocktail bartender, the first few years of your career are attended by a baseline hum of anxiety that someone will ask you for a cocktail that you don’t know. We all like to pretend we’re omniscient beverage wizards, but few-and-far-between are the bartenders that never need to look something up, or do some hasty googling in the back by the soda boxes to check a detail or two about a half-remembered cocktail. Most of the time, the…

