He beat 11 others last night (October 2) and will “switch” continents with the North American winner and spend two weeks working in the…
He beat 11 others last night (October 2) and will “switch” continents with the North American winner and spend two weeks working in the…
Mosey will now compete against bartenders from around the world at the grand final of the fourth international Tahona Society Cocktail Competition in Mexico this month. Held in London at Wahaca Soho, the UK final was judged by a panel comprising Olmeca Altos brand ambassadors Matthias Lataille and Pedro Garvoa, last year’s winner of the UK Tahona Society final, Gareth Evans of Pollen Street Social,…
Boucher, who tends bar at Candelaria in Paris – number 45 in Drinks International’s World’s 50 Best Bars 2012 poll – prevailed from a field of eight international competitors at Gin Mare’s cliff-top villa in Ibiza, Spain. In victory, Boucher won a prize of €4,500 and will take on an ambassadorial role for the Gobal Premium Brands…
BEER TOURISM HAS BECOME BIG BUSINESS. Whereas holidaymakers or business folk once might just have made the effort to seek out the best bar near their hotels, today thirsty hordes are turning the travel premise on its head, constructing whole vacations around beer temples that have sprung up in the past couple of decades in many of the world’s great cities. …
Organisers PIR Events, says the professional trade show brings together bartending talent and premium drinks brands from across Russia and the CIS region. PIR Events runs the Moscow Bar Show in partnership with Andy Bishop, who formerly published Theme magazine and ran the London Bar Show. With Russia recently experiencing a total ban on all consumer advertising of alcohol, the show gives brands an opportunity…
Described as “an East End Club in the heart of the West End”, Ink is open seven days a week from 6pm-3am and offers the best in music, food and drink under one very unique roof”. “East London boys” Manderson, Calabrese and brother Jon Calabrese (sons of bar legend, Salvatore Calabrese), are said to “bring Hoxton Square to Leicester Square”. They say: “Ink encapsulates the…
The UPPL is free to enter, and kicks off with the Monin Bartenders’ Challenge Cup; a ‘battle of the bars’ which will travel to 12 locations around the country throughout September. At each regional heat, eight bars will select a team of two bartenders to represent them. The UK bar scene’s most creative bartenders will compete against each other in a ‘beer pong’-style tournament, with…
‘300 More Beers To Try Before You Die’! features beers from all over the globe, including British ales, Czech lagers, Belgian blondes and German wheat beers alongside more unusual brews from as far afield as Australia and Cuba. The book’s author, Roger Protz, said: “New World beers can now challenge New World wines in their diversity and complexity, and Britain, with more breweries per…
