The El Dorado Rum Heritage Cocktail Competition is happening NOW! Last year Canadian Mike Dojcsak took home the grand prize and we would love to see a Canadian win it again!
This competition is an invitation for bartenders to create a cocktail that captures their legacy, their journey and their interpretation of heritage. We love how much room there is for individuality and creativity with this theme.
To enter: Create a cocktail that tells the story of your journey, your legacy and your interpretation of heritage. Your cocktail must consist of a minimum measure of 50ml of El Dorado Rum and be the main ingredient for your drink.
You must post the image of your cocktail to your Instagram account (must be a public account), tagging @eldoradorums and using the hashtag #eldoradorumheritage2025.
You must then submit your details and a link to your Instagram post via the form here: https://mailchi.mp/demrum/eldoradococktailcompetition?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaaUXubBZJdIhBTsa-voOlEBbpCyng2kYLk1GYFvr0i9eWNC9-j8dXWHlCg_aem_0RSWBdj9E7YriQbPomce1Q
One Canadian bartender will be chosen to go to Guyana to compete in the global competition in April. Grand prize is $5000 USD and a collection of rare El Dorado Rums.
DEADLINE TO ENTER: Friday, February 21st .
Questions? Do not hesitate to reach out!
Amaro Montenegro's global cocktail competition - The Vero Bartender - is back! Last year the theme was to create a cocktail with a '90s theme which allowed a lot of room for some fun as everyone got nostalgic for the past.
This time around... we are moving to the future... way far into the future! To celebrate 140 years of Amaro Montenegro, they are asking bartenders to create a cocktail inspired by 140 years in the future: the year 2165. Get your creative juices flowing for what a cocktail may look like that far in the future. What will our world look like at that point and what will people be drinking? What ingredients would you include? What about your garnish and vessel? What bar techniques will be used then? This is a great theme in that there are no wrong answers - just a whole lot of room for imagination and creativity!
The deadline to enter this competition is Monday, December 2nd, 2024 - check out website for all of the details and application form: https://www.theverobartender.com/
Bartenders from across Canada are invited to apply. Ten finalists will be chosen to compete in the Canadian Nationals which will take place in early 2025. From there, one winner will head to Bologna, Italy to compete in the Global finals in April.
And what is the grand prize? A whole lot of great opportunities including a 3-day mentorship opportunity at Sips in Barcelona!
Questions? Please do not hesitate to reach out!
Announcing a new cocktail competition for Canada: Altos Tequila’s TAKES TWO TO ALTOS! This team comp will be taking place in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Montréal over the next couple of months.
Just like us at Bartender Atlas, Altos Tequila has always been a big supporter of bartenders – the actual people that work hard to make bars great! This year they are the sponsors for @canadasbest100 Best Bartender of the Year and are also the official sponsor of @50bestbars .
We are excited about this comp because bartenders will compete in a team of two – this can be a co-worker at your bar or your best bartender friend in your city. There will be 3 phases to this competition:
REGIONALS will take place soon in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Montréal. During each of these events, 8 teams of 2 bartenders will compete (that’s a total of 32 teams with 64 bartenders across Canada!). This leg of the comp will include a sensory deprivation challenge and a challenge to show us your unique twist on the Altos Margarita. The winning team of each city will then move onto the Semi-Finals.
SEMI-FINALS will have one winning team from each city competing: two of these teams will travel to the other teams’ cities to compete. This will be a “show us your city” challenge and both a panel of judges and consumers at the events will vote for the two winning teams.
FINALS will take place in Toronto in May. This challenge will be a Mystery Box Challenge between the two final competing bartender teams. The winning team will win a place at the Canada’s Best 100 event in Toronto to represent Altos and will also receive an all-expense Altos Tequila experience in Mexico!
Any Canadian bartender team can apply. Chosen teams to compete in each city for the Regionals must make their own travel arrangements. After that any travel costs will be covered by the Altos Tequila team.
If you are interested in applying head over to the link below. The deadline to enter is Mon, Feb 19th
INDEPENDENT STUDY DAY. We are so excited to host Toronto (and area!) bartenders on Tuesday for our first ever Independent Study Day. This will be a monthly event that will include a seminar and then ample time for talking, sharing and learning. Over the years of running @torontococktailconference we have seen the magic of what comes during the breaks between the seminars. When TOCC guests meet and have real conversations about what they just learned and what is going on in their bars and lives. Since the pandemic, we have noticed a real lack in mentorship. Not every bartender has an experienced person that they can go to to learn and grow from. We want Independent Study Day to become a hub for this. We believe that everyone has something of value that we can learn from and we believe in centre-out education rather than just top down.
Independent Study Day is meant for all bartenders of all levels no matter where you work. We want bar owners/managers to send their bar teams. We want people to carpool from outside of Toronto to come join in. We want you to bring your questions and frustrations and we want to work through them. We want you to bring new ingredients or cocktails or menus you are working on for feedback. In the end, we just want everyone drinking better drinks and we believe that this is a way to do that.
We would love to see you on Tuesday at @this_is_ahma . It begins at 12pm and we’ll be hanging out until 4pm. For this inaugural event, our Josh will lead a short seminar where he is going to dive into our goals with these events and will talk about things he is noticing in the industry as of late. We’ll then spend the rest of the afternoon hanging out (and eating pizza and having drinks!). Everyone and anyone is welcome. We cannot wait to spend time with you on Tuesday.
It is not mandatory to rsvp for this but it helps us to know how many people we can expect. Please email us if you are planning to come - [email protected]
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