We asked Ben for his tips on keeping your nerves under wraps and preparing for this year’s Bartender of the Year competition at Sydney Bar Week — the exam is just two weeks away! He dishes advice on blind tasting, keeping your cool and going with “gut instinct”…
Bartender of the Year
We hope you’ve been getting your study on for the Bartender Magazine Bartender of the Year sponsored by ABSOLUT ELYX and Havana Club, because this year’s prize for first place will be one to remember.
Fancy yourself as a bit of a boozy bookworm? Are you a mixological mastermind? Well, you can put yourself to the test and see just why the Bartender Magazine Bartender of the Year sponsored by ABSOLUT ELYX and Havana Club is the toughest and most prestigious bartending competition in the country — heck, you’d be hard pressed to find a tougher test of bartending anywhere in the world.
It’s that time of year people — in just four months’ time the country’s biggest and most challenging bartending competition will get underway. Australian Bartender is proud to announce that this year’s competition will be sponsored by ABSOLUT ELYX and Havana Club, both from the Pernod Ricard stable of brands.
Yes, it’s that time of year again. Voting for the Australian Bartender Bar Awards is now open — head to barweek.com.au to lodge your vote now!
The Australian Bar Awards once again recognises the best in the Aussie bar scene!
Around the nation bartenders have their heads buried in books, their noses stuffed in tasting glasses, and hands busy at work whipping up new concoctions for the Bartender Magazine Bartender of the Year Competition sponsored by Ketel One.
Australia’s most coveted bartending title is gearing up for another round in 2012. The Bartender Magazine Bartender of the Year Competition sponsored by Ketel One is aimed at discovering and celebrating Australia’s top bartending talent – and if you’re a bartender you can get involved.
Do you have what it takes to compete in Australia’s premier bartending challenge? Well now you can take last year’s test to see if you have what it takes to compete in the Bartender Magazine Bartender of the Year Competition sponsored by Ketel One in 2012.
Today saw 94 of Australia’s top barkeeps sit a gruelling written exam to vie for a place in the Top 20 of the Bartender Magazine Bartender of the Year Competition sponsored by RESERVE.
It’s that time of year again where we ask bartenders who think they’re worthy of their spiced Bloody Mary salt to step up to the plate and put themselves forward for Australia’s ultimate bartending challenge: