On this episode Dominic and Tristin discuss Kate Gerwin’s views on Yelp reviews, her extensive background in bartending, and her many accolades.

Kate Gerwin, a widely celebrated restaurateur and mixologist, is well-known in the bartending world for being the first woman and first American to win the Bols Around the World Bartending Championship in 2014, but this is just one of her many worthy accomplishments. In her more-than-20-year career, Gerwin has been named by Drinks International as one of the industry's "Top 100 Most Influential Figures in the World," she has worked as a certified advanced master sommelier for some of Napa’s top wineries, consulted on the docuseries Bar Rescue, taught at the Le Cordon Bleu campus in Scottsdale, Arizona and the New England Culinary Institute in Montpelier, Vt.

We’d be remiss not to mention, as she puts it, her “favorite crowning moment”: being inducted into the Tales of the Cocktail Dame Hall of Fame, which celebrates the contributions of hard-working women to the spirits and cocktail industry.

It’s her consulting work that she is most passionate about, specifically that which she does with small market bar programs. Sometimes she's called in to help train and educate teams at struggling bar programs, almost like a real life Bar Rescue, and other times she is hired to design bar programs in small tertiary markets that don’t yet have a cocktail bar scene.

Recently, Gerwin and her business partner, flair bartender Blaze Montana, opened their own bar and distillery, Happy Accidents. The bar is located in the Nob Hill neighborhood of Albuquerque, New Mexico.