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Competition Theory
From there to here, then. Grant Neave representing Monteiths at the Edinburgh qualifier for the Finlandia Vodka Cup. There was a local league of comps in Edinburgh when I first started working bars...
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Labwork 2: Two-Step Mojito & Ex Aqua
I recently spent a couple of days in London, having been lucky enough to qualify for the UK final of a competition organised by El Dorado Rum and molecularmixology.co.uk/ at Loungelover in Shoreditch....
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Secret histories of cities and spirits
Nothing focuses the mind quite like a deadline and deadlines don’t care about royal weddings or bank holidays. On top of that, they can be sneaky little buggers and so it turns out that the entry...
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Black Daisy
After an absence of a couple of years, cocktail competition leagues are back with a vengeance in Edinburgh. The newly minted Scottish Society for Professional Bartenders have a four-round league...
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August is generally a quiet month in Edinburgh, except for the major international arts festival and the accompanying Festival Fringe that allegedly increases the population by roughly 100%, and that...
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Road Trip: Balmenach Distillery and Caorunn
Scotland – and it’s likely that I’m not the first person to notice – has a long history of distilling. The obvious product of that history is whisky – single malt or blended – but like any country with...
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Starry Night
There are lot of cocktail competitions throughout the year and sometimes when you submit an entry, you don’t really think about it too much after you hit the “submit” button. For me, that was the case...
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The Matinee
I’ve previously written about my participation in Bacardi’s annual Legacy Cocktail Competition; despite qualifying for the regional finals twice, I never really managed any great success in it. Luckily...
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OT OTT
Judging cocktail OT with JJ Goodman and Metinee Kongsrivilai. (Photo © Till Britze, 2012) I never realised cocktail competitions could go to overtime. I’ve been involved with a couple of tiebreakers...
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Circles and straight lines
With any kind of creative endeavour, there’s always a temptation to say you’ve created something for the simple pleasure of having created it – art for art’s sake, if you will – but while that’s true...
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A swing, and a miss
I recently got back into bartending – which, yes, is a weird thing to say on a blog all about bartending and making cocktails, but it’s been a couple of years since I spent more than one or two days at...
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