Who | Reece Matheson
Where | Canmore, Alberta, Canada
Current Bar | Wild Life Distillery and Bar Deja Vu
Past Bar(s) | Therapy Cocktail Bar (Adelaide), Flamingos Tiki Bar (Cairns), Wolf Lane Distillery (Cairns), Births and Deaths Gin Bar (Wollongong), Howlin Wolf Whiskey Bar (Wollongong), Humber Cocktail Bar (Wollongong)
Favourite Spirit | Anything new and complex
Favourite Juice | Pineapple
Favourite Classic Cocktail | Margarita
First Classic Cocktail you ever had | Last Word
Favourite Part of the Job | Everything. From talking to customers and meeting new people to being creative and learning all about the world of spirits to being challenged when under pressure in a busy bar. I love my job.
Favourite After Work Drink | Whatever is easiest.
Favourite bar in the world | Caretakers Cottage (Melbourne)
Best known for | Knowledge and banter.
Favourite “at work” memory | Every final shift at every bar. Always a big one and filled with people I love.
What’s your favourite movie? Dodgeball, an underdog story
Favourite thing about your city? The beauty of it.
What was the last photo that you took? A floral wallpaper in a bar that I love.
Where is one place that you have never been but would like to travel to? Scotland to do the Whisky trail
Any claims to fame? Winning a speed cocktail competition by pouring the ice and ingredients into my mouth and baby birding it into the glass. They still had to taste it.
Aperitivo or Digestivo? Digestive ( the GOAT Fernet Branca)
Soda or Tonic? Soda, gotta keep the flavour
Trader Vic or Donn Beach? Donn Beach, the Tiki Daddy
Egg Whites or Vegan Foamer? Vegan foamer. Everybody should enjoy the same cocktail, no matter what.
Are you available for freelance gigs? Absolutely
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