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Workshop, pt. 4: the naming
I’m always conflicted about naming new cocktails. Some days, I worry that I’m going to choose something that someone’s used before and that my cocktail will lose any comparison between them and...
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Havana laugh
I’m a bartender, therefore I like rum, which leads me to say all kinds of nice things about the roundup of the Havana Club range at A Mountain of Crushed Ice. Tiare’s post touches on Bacardi’s version...
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Workshop, pt. 6: regionals
Today was my regional heat for the Bacardi Legacy competition. Regionals can take many forms and today’s format was another new experience. For the purposes of the competition, the UK was split into...
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In review: Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba
Here’s what I know about Cuban independence. It turns out you can write entire books on what I don’t know about the history of Cuba. Helpfully, Tom Gjelten has done just that and he’s even made...
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Things to do in Ingliston when you’re dead
Bartenders are social creatures and often tend to congregate in places where alcohol – particularly rum – are abundant, even if that place happens to be Ingliston. Ingliston is a small village on the...
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Week Sixteen: Centre
The galaxy is filled with wonderful things, not least the news that its centre tastes of raspberries and smells of rum. This is great news because both raspberries and rum are themselves wonderful...
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Week Eighteen: West India Company
If I’m honest, this started out as more of a kitchen special. I recently had the privilege of having my flat inspected by my landlord and in my attempts to make the place look more safely habitable, I...
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Twenty Nine: 2000 Man
Change, it has been said, is a good thing. The world turns and becomes new. I’ve just started a new job. After more than three years in one place, I felt it was time to seek a new challenge and so far,...
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Thirty One: Jade Sky
It seems like just two weeks ago that Diageo’s Reserve Brands division named Aristotelis Papadopoulos as the World Class Bartender of 2009. But two weeks is a long time in the cut-throat world of...
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