Steva Casey. Where do I begin?! This woman is everything. Josh first met Steva when they were both campers at Camp Runamok. Later when we launched Bartender Atlas, she was one of the first bartenders to sign up to be listed – and she followed through in getting many (SO MANY!) other bartenders to join...
I first heard about Misty Kalkofen when we were in Boston in April for THIRST. It was at an event called An Afternoon with the B-Side Lounge when I heard her name. The B-Side Lounge was a bar in Boston that opened in 1998 bringing a renaissance of cocktails to the city. It closed twenty...
Who | Norbert Schök Where | Budapest, Hungary, Europe Current Bar | GoodSpirit Bar Past Bar(s) | KOH Restaurant (Dublin, Ireland) Favourite Spirit | Depends on the moment Favourite Juice | Fermented Apple (cider from Christian Drouin) Favourite Classic Cocktail | The Last Word Favourite Part of the Job | Talking with nice guests Favourite After Work Drink | Beer & Shot Favourite at Home Drink | G&T Favourite bar in the...
Welcome to the Boozy Bookshelf, in which we profile essential reads for people with a keen or professional interest in adult beverages. Full confession: I am not a bartender and I barely know how to make a cocktail. A Negroni (equal parts!) and a Manhattan (2-1-2.. or something) are the cocktails that I feel someone confident...
To get better at anything requires a lot of hard work. Learning, practising, making mistakes and doing it all over again. The bartending community is full of veterans. Those people who have been behind the wood for decades. Who have seen trends and cocktails evolves. From these people we can learn a heck of a...
For the past thirty days, I have not consumed alcohol. Not a glass of wine. Not a shot of whisky. Not a sniff of anything alcoholic. Nothing. Bone dry. And it hasn’t been easy. While I am not a bartender, alcohol is a huge part of my life, as I suspect it is in your...
To get better at anything requires a lot of hard work. Learning, practising, making mistakes and doing it all over again. The bartending community is full of veterans. Those people who have been behind the wood for decades. Who have seen trends and cocktails evolves. From these people we can learn a heck of a...
You may have bumped into an epistle that’s been floating around the bar-o-sphere with a bit of a tailwind of late entitled “Buh-Bye Hipster: Why the Friendly Bartender is Making a Comeback”, offered by the business section of an American news website. It opens with the proclamation that “…the trend of the hipster bartender is...
What an incredible time to be a bartender — there are so many fantastic opportunities already set up for us to learn from those who came before us. I haven’t been bartending for all too long, but I can see a massive shift over the last few years, so I am sure those who have...
