{"id":12563,"date":"2015-05-25T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12563"},"modified":"2015-05-25T12:57:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T16:57:54","slug":"the-market-for-luxury-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-market-for-luxury-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Market For Luxury ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/052515_1655_TheMarketFo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"481\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve previously covered the market for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2014\/luxury-ice\/\">luxury ice<\/a>. Christopher Jones wrote about just how sophisticated the market has become:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Premium bars are increasingly making premium ice a part of their brands.<\/li>\n<li>This can add up to 80 cents to the price of each drink<\/li>\n<li>This is because of the cost of the machinery involved. One that specializes in making clear ice costs $6,000 and takes three days to make 600 pounds of ice.<\/li>\n<li>Clarity is important because like diamonds, ice is judged on its clarity, density, size, and cut.<\/li>\n<li>Difference ices are used in different drinks. Large ice cubes are used in spirit heavy cocktails in the hopes of slowing down dilution.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile another machine makes chewy and fluffy pellet ice that absorbs flavours and is used in drinks such as mojitos.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about the different kinds of ice, what it costs to make them, and why ice is so important over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/05\/cocktail-ice\/?mbid=social_twitter\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/05\/cocktail-ice\/?mbid=social_twitter\">Wired<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve previously covered the market for luxury ice. Christopher Jones wrote about just how sophisticated the market has become: Premium bars are increasingly making premium ice a part of their brands. This can add up to 80 cents to the price of each drink This is because of the cost of the machinery involved. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/052515_1655_TheMarketFo1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12566,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12563\/revisions\/12566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}