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Into The Wild With The Reyka Expedition
Before the sun had cast its warm glow across south east England, before some bartenders had even arrived home after a busy night, a group of intrepid souls gathered in the bitter morning darkness in...
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The Social Importance of Your Bar
Mass Observation Unit Book Bars tend to appear in the media in one of two ways: Boozy Celeb’s Late Night Nipple Slip Club Exit Teenager In Coma Following Jagerbomb Binge While pubs are often portrayed...
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Jamie Baxter: Spirits of Adventure
Jamie Baxter is the guy who set up the Chase Distillery and built the City of London Distillery, he is now working on a new distillery and in a series of articles he will be giving BarLifeUK an...
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Leeds Loves Cocktails
Cities putting on a celebration of all things cocktails is not restricted to London, New York, Sydney and New Orleans. Leeds has it’s very own week of festivities and local legend Sam Fish is here to...
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Editor’s Blog: Why You Should Enter the Bacardi Legacy Cocktail Competition
Having just returned from my third Bacardi Legacy global final, I feel compelled to write something more expansive than a dry, ‘who won and how’ news story about the experience. David Cordoba does his...
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Editor’s Blog: Looking for Vintage Glassware and Retro Junk for your Bar?...
It’s cheaper than eBay, there’s a burger van and everything smells of old ladies 50p each, or the lot for £2 Ebay used to be a great place to find old glassware and assorted tat for bar decor, but...
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Gin 1495 – A Journey to Re-Create a Piece of History
Earlier this year Philip Duff and Jean-Sebastien Robicquet began a mission to re-create a gin recipe from 1495. With the help of a Magnificent 7-esque bunch of experts they embarked on an adventure...
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Editor’s Blog: Is it time to stop looking back?
The bar industry is overly preoccupied with the past. Enough of this sort of thing. This is a sweeping generalisation worthy of a Fox News anchor, but for the sake of argument, let it stand for a...
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Repeal Day
December 5th sees the anniversary of the end of prohibition in the United States. We look at Repeal Day and why we don’t celebrate it like we should. There isn’t a bartender out there who hasn’t heard...
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Pop-Off
Breaking News: Pop-Up replaces Speakeasy as the most overused and least understood descriptor for a bar. Over the past few years the BarLifeUK office (shed) has been inundated with press releases about...
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A Personal Thank You to Bartenders Who Travel for Competitions
BarLifeUK promote and judge a lot of cocktail competitions. We spend more time on competitions than anything else these days, and I think it is probably true to say that we judge more than anyone else,...
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Joe Harper’s Pillars of the Community – Sly Augustin
Joe Harper is the current Bacardi Legacy UK champion. Fingers crossed, he will go on to nail the global final and bring the Legacy crown back to the UK, but before he can do that, Joe is tasked with...
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Joe Harper’s Pillars of the Community – Craig Harper
Joe Harper is the current Bacardi Legacy UK champion. Fingers crossed, he will go on to nail the global final and bring the Legacy crown back to the UK, but before he can do that, Joe is tasked with...
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Taking Cocktail-Name Inspiration from Emotive Words
It is Sunday afternoon on that rarest of things – a hot Bank Holiday weekend. I thought to myself, why not nip to the shop and buy a newspaper and a couple of beers, then retire to the garden and...
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Alex Walker’s Trip to Mexico with 1800 Tequila
The Savoy’s Alex Walker recently won the 1800 Visionaries Cocktail Competition, which saw him board a jet plane to Mexico for a VIP trip. He sent us back a diary of his experiences, so we can all be...
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War on Terroir Critique the Elevated Gin and Tonic
So we’re in what passes for summer now… …and that means that yet again stupid bars and the most irritating of “micro flair” loving mixology bellends conspire to ruin something for the rest of us by...
View ArticleEuropean Parliamentary Elections – How to Vote and Why You Should
Voter registration deadline: May 7th, 2019 Based on the fact that bartenders are often young, well-travelled, and not arseholes, for the purposes of this article I’m going to make a couple of...
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