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Who | Jake McIntosh
Where | Collingwood, Ontario, Canada
Current Bar | Low Down Bar
Past Bar(s) | Twist Kitchen and Cocktail (The Blue Mountains), Casa Rugantino (Kitchener), The Crow Bar & Variety
Favourite Spirit | Bourbon
Favourite Juice | Blueberry
Favourite Classic Cocktail | Corpse Reviver #2
First Classic Cocktail you ever had | Vesper Martini
Favourite Part of the Job | Helping my guests celebrate the highest points in there lives and helping them through some of the lowest. Proposals and breakups, the bartender is there for all of it.
Favourite After Work Drink | Naked & Famous
Favourite bar in the world | Pretty Decent (Louisville, KY)
Best known for | Staying calm in the chaos
Favourite “at work” memory | 5 deep at the bar and in the weeds, mixing old fashioned, negronis, whiskey sours, and a couple martinis. The bartenders on either side of me doing the same and all of us were just in the zone flowing and the DJ was pumping.
What’s the most popular cocktail in your city? Spicy Margarita
Favourite thing about your city | Snowboarding in the winter, surfing in the summer.
Who is your favourite fictional bartender? Sam Malone
What was the last photo that you took? The liquor cabinet at work to do a liquor order.
Where is one place that you have never been but would like to travel to? Chile or Peru
Aperitivo or Digestivo? Digestivo
Sparkling or Flat? Flat
Paper Plane or Penicillin? Paper Plane
Sherry or Vermouth? Vermouth
Are you available for freelance gigs? Yes