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Article: Last of the big-time pourers?(Annals Of Alcohol)(Joe English's bar in Whitehorse Yukon)
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- The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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Order a rye and Coke at Joe English's bar in Whitehorse and two things become clear. Joe pours the demon drinks your mother warned you about. And those nursing cocktails at the bar like it that way.
"We have good drinks, free-pour drinks. Anybody who wants a drink with something in it, they come here," brags sixty-seven-year-old Joe, cocking his head to the right to favour his one good eye.
It isn't correct to say Joe is the only bartender in North America allowed to free pour, but he's probably the last doing it. "The law is you gotta give an ounce," he says. "You can give more, but you can't give less. They don't really specify how you go about it, so ...