Los Angeles' craft cocktail scene spills onto a wider stage

As New Orleans' booming Tales of the Cocktail gathering shows, craft drinks are big business near and far. L.A. pioneers like Cedd Moses can drink to that.

NEW ORLEANS — Los Angeles bar designer Ricki Kline stands on New Orleans' Bourbon Street at 3 a.m. holding a Sazerac in a plastic to-go cup while bartenders from across the country shout greetings, shake hands and swig from unlabeled bottles of boutique booze they barrel-aged themselves. It's the spillover from Tales of the Cocktail, the world's largest annual gathering of bartenders and liquor professionals, with more than 21,000 attendees eager to soak up trade secrets of the craft cocktail movement that has spread from New York and Los Angeles to unexpected towns in America's heartland and beyond.

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