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It’s almost like showing off.” \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_51728\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/12/IMG_1911.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-51728 \" title=\"IMG_1911\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/12/IMG_1911-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mohawk Bend may be the only bar in California to stock only California spirits. You want a Negroni? How about a California Negroni? (Credit: KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Keith Taylor of \u003ca href=\"http://mohawk.la/\">Mohawk Bend\u003c/a> understands the power of story. The owner of the LA gastro-pub wanted Taylor to build a \"Made in California\" bar to brand the beer \u003cem>and\u003c/em> the spirits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, we can’t have Campari,\" Taylor says when I ask him how he'd make a Negroni. \"It’s from Italy. But what we do have is a Hibiscus liquor, made by \u003ca href=\"http://www.greenbar.biz/\">Modern Spirits\u003c/a> (of Monrovia). So we’ll tell them what we’re going to make, we’ll call it a California Negroni. You know, it’s the same same but different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes,” you may be saying. \"Whatever that is, that’s not a Negroni.” If you’re stuck on that fact, you’re not Taylor’s customer. Or maybe you are. He knows the recipe for success with the California-only concept is taking the time to talk to customers about the products he's selling - and the distilleries that make them. Many of them are small outfits with small marketing budgets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When someone comes into Mohawk Bend off the street, chances are they’ve never heard of any liquor that we carry. So it’s the challenge to tell them the story of why we do that and to make them a drink that they’ll appreciate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also talked to Thad Vogler, \"the guy behind the guy behind the guy\" (as another guy put it) at many of the best Bay Area bars. At the very least, he was in the area at the creation: \u003ca href=\"http://www.jardiniere.com/\">Jardiniere\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bourbonandbranch.com/\">Bourbon & Branch\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://floraoakland.com/flashsite/\">Flora\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://berettasf.com/\">Beretta\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.caminorestaurant.com/\">Camino\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.heavensdog.com/main/HD.html\">Heaven's Dog\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bardessono.com/\">Bardessono\u003c/a>. Now he's focused on his own \u003ca href=\"http://www.baragricole.com/\">Bar Agricole\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vogler says California is surfing on a new wave of cocktail love. \"Cooks looked out of the kitchen and realized those bars were part of their food program.\" Right away, they started getting rid of artificially flavored and colored ingredients, as well as bland, industrially produced spirits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_51733\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/12/Brandy2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-51733 \" title=\"Brandy2\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/12/Brandy2-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Brandy Milkshake, by Thad Volger at the Bar Agricole in San Francisco. 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Take \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvados_%28brandy%29\">Calvados\u003c/a>, which is a really beautiful heirloom apple brandy from Normandy. These guys have been growing apples for hundreds of years, and doing their own fermentation, their own distillation. Beautiful spirits - and arguably - our notions of what distillation are begin in areas like this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vogler considers himself a Europhile. Indeed, many of the distillers who just started in California, started by bringing equipment over from Europe. Many learned what they know about process and taste from Europe. When you think about it, that's how the wine industry started here. Now doesn't this all give you something to look forward to in 2012? 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