Craft cocktails have become quite the craze these days. Unfortunately—cashing in on their overwhelming popularity—too a few bartenders have eschewed time-tested flavors in favor of flashy novelty beverages that might look good, but are nothing you’d want to try more than once. It takes a special kind of mixologist to stay ahead of the curve and offer patrons the newest combination of flavors that triumph both in style and substance. Jeremy Back of City Tavern (9739 Culver Boulevard) in Culver City, CA is my kind of mix master. The ever-rotating menu at this classy L.A. gastropub requires him to always shake up a cornucopia of specially-mixed spirits that satiate the complex tastes of his artisanal-minded clientele. On a recent visit, I was wowed by numerous concoctions that he placed in front of me–many of which were unlike anything I’ve ever tasted before. The White Sand Beach, for example, is not your [...]