Fernet-Branca Is The Bartender's Secret Handshake
Why you should buy your local service industry person a shot of it
After spending as much time on both sides of a bar as I have, I’d just come to accept it as a fact that the default shots a bartender asks people they dub as tolerable, even good clientele to do was either whiskey or tequila. That’s why it came as a surprise in 2019 when I had a bartender ask if I wanted to do a shot of Fernet-Branca the night after ano…
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