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.
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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.
This weekend, they’ll be hosting their first session interstate, when Coleman’s Academy lands in Melbourne on Sunday.
Hailing from Perth, Kieran Lee is the quiet, unassuming guy you’ll find behind the bar at The Barber Shop; he’s the one surveying the scene and getting what needs to be done, done. But the guy knows his drinks, and — given the Gin Bar of the Year stocks some 500 types — he also knows his gin.
Fireball are on the hunt for the perfect Ambassador! If you think you have what it takes, Fireball wants to hear from you!
It’s hard to overstate this guy’s importance for tiki bars: Jeff Berry literally wrote the books on tiki. Beachbum Berry’s Sippin’ Safari is required reading, if you ask us, as is his Potions of the Caribbean.
Stuart Morrow has an enviable gig as the general manager of the award-winning Sydney bar, The Baxter Inn. But given that the bar figures each year in the World’s 50 Best and has won accolades galore, how do you a bar like this at the top its game?
Nils Boese’s bar is owned, operated and staffed solely by himself, has no menus, and is closed whenever he’s out of town. He’s got no contract — which is how likes it — but is the unofficial Jägermeister Global Brand Ambassador, and is clearly doing things his own way.
Meet Mitch Horrocks, the bartender trying to bring clean drinking water to rural Ugandan communities
Horrocks tell us a bit more about the project and the journey that he’s been on.
Former Eau de Vie bartender Tom Egerton on how he made the move to Hong Kong and the challenges of bringing sustainable bar ideas to a city not exactly known for its anti-waste attitudes
David Robinson won over judges with his cocktail, ‘The Last Frontier’ which had citrus and spice notes, inspired by his hown town of Darwin with a South East Asian twist. Get the winning recipe here.
Australian spirits are special. It’s not just the liquid but the incredible characters behind each and every brand. Each has their own story of how they came to be a distiller and what inspires them.