Bartending Events & Competitions

This week on Bartender Journey podcast # 145, its all about Bartending Events & Competitions!
Julia from the Mixology talk Podcast and Bar Above Blog is our guest.  She announces the online event - The Craft Bartender Summit!  This educational event will be held on April 17, 2016 and its FREE!  You can reserve your spot here.

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Upcoming Bartender Events & Competitions:

• East Ville des Folies - 40,000 Square Feet of Beers & Whiskeys to sample, plus Aerialist, Flappers and Burlesque performances!  At Webster Hall NYC on January 16, 2016!
  
• Diageo World Class Lab
• Diageo World Class Cocktail Competiton

To enter the Competition, you must attend at least one Lab, AND be a member of the United States Bartenders’ Guild (USBG).  Click for a free 60 day trial membership to the USBG.
 
Cocktail of the Week, courtesy of A Bar Above:
Favorite Things

• 1 ½ oz Light Rum
•  ½ oz Nocino          
• 3 Dashes Angostura bitters
• 2 Brandied Cherries

 Instructions:

• Combine all ingredients except cherries in a mixing glass and stir.
• Strain into an Old Fashioned glass with one large ice cube
• Garnish with two cherries on a cocktail pick

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Book of the Week, courtesy of A Bar Above:
Lost Recipes of Prohibition: Notes from a Bootlegger's Manual by Matthew Rowley