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Booze News & Notes: PT’s new brewmaster, Velveteen Rabbit’s cocktail contest win and more

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Velveteen Rabbit
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PT’s Entertainment Group named Dave Otto brewmaster of PT’s Brewing Company December 10. With more than 18 years of industry experience, Otto most recently served as the head brewmaster for veteran local brewery Big Dog’s Brewing Co., where he has been generously decorated with beer awards—including a 2015 gold medal at Denver’s Great American Beer Festival, arguably the country’s premier brew competition.

Speaking of competitions, Velveteen Rabbit recently reigned supreme at the Mob Museum’s third-annual Boss of the Bars cocktail contest. The Main Street drinkery took home the Repeal Day Cup title thanks to Andrew Schumaker’s Here’s Looking at You Fizz and Tomoka Sour sippers. Fizz features a mixture of Bogart’s Gin, green cream, lemon and lime juices, simple syrup, green juice (made with green apple, cucumber and spinach), orange blossom water and egg whites, while Tomoka blends Cutty Sark Prohibition, dark rum, chamomile honey, lemon juice and allspice dram. Celeste Peterson of Oscar’s Steakhouse was named the runner-up, with the People’s Choice award going to Glutton’s Dean Howard.

Bar Bar USA’s third-annual For the Love of Cocktails extravaganza returns February 10-12, when the United States Bartenders’ Guild brings in the country’s top mixologists and bartenders for three days of boozy fun. This year’s installment features forums with industry experts, a Downtown bar crawl, dinners and the Grand Gala tasting event, with tickets benefiting mixologist Tony Abou-Ganim’s Helen David Relief Fund for Bartenders Affected by Breast Cancer charity. For tickets visit FTLOC.vegas.

Is Henderson a better place to live for beer drinkers than Las Vegas? Livability.com named the suburb a “Best Beers in the Best Cities” city, ranking Hendo No. 94 among its 99-city list—and Vegas didn’t even make the cut. The lifestyle ranking website used its own LivScore methodology, Ersi’s consumer data and RateBeer.com scores to compile the list, which was topped by small-town Waterbury, Vermont, home to IPA-focused brewery the Alchemist.

Peppermint bark. Peppermint mocha. Peppermint fudge. Peppermint beer? That’s what’ll be on tap tonight at CraftHaus, as the brewery took its staple Resinate IPA and infused it with peppermint tea and extract during a secondary fermentation process. The firkin gets tapped during the Henderson brewery’s Firkin Christmas party, where brew enthusiasts are encouraged to wear their best ugly holiday sweaters and take pictures with Santa Steve and Elf Steph, the two brewers behind the festive suds.

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