But what do you have to do to make the Top 8? Well, the first step is getting through the notoriously difficult exam, and here, Bulletin Place’s Paul Hammond has got a couple of tips for crushing the exam.
Bartender of the Year
ext in our series of tips and advice from this year’s stellar Top 8 comes Queensland’s Kal Moore, who this year entered the Top 8 for the fifth time.
The Dream Catcher presents and pours just like a natural wine, and it blew away the judges (and the competitors, too). Indeed, after Gregory’s presentation had concluded and the competition ended for the night, you could see more than a few of the bartending industry’s big names clamouring for a swig from the bottle.
Next in our series of tips and advice from this year’s stellar Top 8 comes Priscilla Leong from The Baxter Inn, one of the world’s best bars and this year’s Bar of the Year.
‘I’d never stood on stage in front of that many people.’ Tom Loosli shares his advice from the Top 8
Thomas Loosli gives some solid advice for competing on stage and keeping calm, and given that he knocked his Bartender of the Year performance out of the park this year, it’s advice worth paying attention to.
We knew already that Irvine has a way with drinks — the Pastis Fizz he created for Restaurant Hubert was just about our favourite drink of 2016 — but it was his off the cuff banter on stage whilst presenting his drinks in front of 600 people at the Bartender Magazine Australian Bar Awards that saw him as a crowd favourite for the competition.
Jonothan Carr offers some tips for the Bartender of the Year competition and shares some insight into what it was like to be on stage for the final round.
The competition in the 2017 Bartender of the Year sponsored by BACARDÍ & De Kuyper was closer than it’s ever been this year. At the end of three gruelling rounds of competition, one new entrant joins the Bartender of the Year club: Mr Daniel Gregory.
After the Top 8 round in front of 600 of the industry’s finest, only one was crowned the Bartender of the Year: Mr Daniel Gregory from Brisbane.
The Bartender Magazine Australian Bar Awards were held at Doltone House last night. Here are all the winners including The Baxter Inn in Sydney who took out Bar of the Year to Black Pearl in Melbourne who won the coveted Cocktail Bar of the Year…
The Bartender of the Year exam takes place this coming Monday the 18th of September. It kicks off at 10:30am sharp at Ramblin’ Rascal Tavern — make sure you bring a pen!
Do you have what it takes to be the Bartender of the Year? Take our practice quiz to see where your knowledge is at — the competition kicks off on September 18 this year, so get studying.