Ryan is the winner of the 2024 Deanston Cut From a Different Tartan initiative! Together with his story submission and cocktail creation, he took home the grand prize of $5000. The inspiration behind “The Terra Fizz” was to use ingredients around me at home and my bar to create a cocktail that focuses on sustainability....
This cocktail was created for the Semi-Finals of the Takes Two to Altos team cocktail competition. The theme for this leg of the competition was “show us your city”. As the competition fell in early spring, Montreal was bare of plants and the search for seasonal ingredients left us empty of ideas. We decided to look for...
Five Dollar Shake is the cocktail I made for the 2024 Amaro Montenegro Vero Bartender Competition and represented Canada with in the Global 2024 Finals hosted in Bologna, Italy. The theme was “90’s Calling”. Five Dollar Shake is inspired by the iconic Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction released in 1994. Five Dollar Shake pulls inspiration...
This cocktail was created for the Semi-Finals of the Takes Two to Altos team cocktail competition. The theme for this leg of the competition was “show us your city”. When we designed this cocktail we came to the conclusion that nothing said Toronto like a spirit forward (Martini-style) cocktail. We wanted to use seasonally forged ingredients, distillates...
This is my 2018 Bacardi Legacy cocktail. “Aja” is an expression in Korean to cheer a person’s achievement and success in life, but also to cheer who needs a pat on the back when they’re struggling, to cheer them up to overcome the hurdle in life. It was an expression my father still uses with...
