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The Rise of Craft Flair Bartending
On this weeks show we’re looking at how the art of flair bartending is making a huge comeback behind premium bars and how you can be at the forefront of this trend.
Over the past few years, while flair has still flourished in the competition scene with the moves getting consistently harder and more technical, seeing real world working flair to a good standard in the wild seems to have declined. Of course there are some brands, most notably in the UK TGI Friday’s which have always promoted the skill of their bartenders, and as I see it helped to retain their skilled bartenders with their excellent Bartender Challenge which has gone from strength to strength over the years.
TGI Friday’s Bartender Challenge 2015
The UK final of the Bartender challenge in fact took place this week in Liverpool, with Russell Ward taking the top spot once again and securing a place at the World Championships in the USA later in the year. All the best to Russell with his training and we’ll try to get him on the show soon, we tried last year too but couldn’t work out the dates.
BartenderHQ Podcast is One Year Old
On that subject, the BartenderHQ Podcast is now just over a full year old! We launched the podcast as audio only back on September 10th 2014 and I think we’ve only missed one or two weeks since then. Of course over the year while I’ve been learning more about the tech side of things we’ve added the video recordings to YouTube, we’ve had a few interviews (which I must say are my favourite episodes) with the guys from A Bar Above’s Mixology Talk podcast, Brian from the Bartender Journey podcast, Roadhouse World Flair Champion Tom Dyer, Russell Davis from the Bar Rescue TV show with Jon Taffer and Louie La Vella the Nightlife Marketing expert.
Its been an awesome year and we’ll be doing even more great stuff in the coming years – coming up soon I have guests scheduled from one iconic brand in the spirits space, another from a brand new spirit brand where we’ll talk about how he created his own spirit from scratch and much more.
The Flair Project
We also launched the Flair Project a couple of months ago, our crowdsourcing project to create a flair routine from moves submitted by bartenders all over the world. I entered the first competition of the project a few weeks back, the Masters of Flair and took the honour of Best of the Midlands, so look out for The Flair Project kicking into high gear next month as my change in job lets me spend far more time on both BartenderHQ and The Flair Project.
I’m still looking for more submissions, so if you want to help out and be a part of The Flair Project, shoot your video, don’t worry about the quality, smartphone footage is absolutely fine, just please make sure its landscape! Then drop me an email with a link on [email protected] and you’ll be a part of it!
The Rise of Craft Flair Bartending
There have been videos going pretty viral on Facebook of a guy by the name of Evgeniy Shashin who has an amazing style with his flair, in a style that I’m calling “Craft Flair Bartending”. Its really paired back and has all the huge showy moves taken out in preference of small, incredibly precise jigger bumps, spoon flourishes, nesting of shaker and cheater tins and super accurate pours.
In a second video, you’ll see him performing 8 short and sweet moves with pairs of shakers and cheater tins, each unique and almost impossible to follow. Its a kind of stealth flair that if you were in the bar relaxing and talking to ...
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By David Eden Sangwell - BartenderHQOn this weeks show we’re looking at how the art of flair bartending is making a huge comeback behind premium bars and how you can be at the forefront of this trend.
Over the past few years, while flair has still flourished in the competition scene with the moves getting consistently harder and more technical, seeing real world working flair to a good standard in the wild seems to have declined. Of course there are some brands, most notably in the UK TGI Friday’s which have always promoted the skill of their bartenders, and as I see it helped to retain their skilled bartenders with their excellent Bartender Challenge which has gone from strength to strength over the years.
TGI Friday’s Bartender Challenge 2015
The UK final of the Bartender challenge in fact took place this week in Liverpool, with Russell Ward taking the top spot once again and securing a place at the World Championships in the USA later in the year. All the best to Russell with his training and we’ll try to get him on the show soon, we tried last year too but couldn’t work out the dates.
BartenderHQ Podcast is One Year Old
On that subject, the BartenderHQ Podcast is now just over a full year old! We launched the podcast as audio only back on September 10th 2014 and I think we’ve only missed one or two weeks since then. Of course over the year while I’ve been learning more about the tech side of things we’ve added the video recordings to YouTube, we’ve had a few interviews (which I must say are my favourite episodes) with the guys from A Bar Above’s Mixology Talk podcast, Brian from the Bartender Journey podcast, Roadhouse World Flair Champion Tom Dyer, Russell Davis from the Bar Rescue TV show with Jon Taffer and Louie La Vella the Nightlife Marketing expert.
Its been an awesome year and we’ll be doing even more great stuff in the coming years – coming up soon I have guests scheduled from one iconic brand in the spirits space, another from a brand new spirit brand where we’ll talk about how he created his own spirit from scratch and much more.
The Flair Project
We also launched the Flair Project a couple of months ago, our crowdsourcing project to create a flair routine from moves submitted by bartenders all over the world. I entered the first competition of the project a few weeks back, the Masters of Flair and took the honour of Best of the Midlands, so look out for The Flair Project kicking into high gear next month as my change in job lets me spend far more time on both BartenderHQ and The Flair Project.
I’m still looking for more submissions, so if you want to help out and be a part of The Flair Project, shoot your video, don’t worry about the quality, smartphone footage is absolutely fine, just please make sure its landscape! Then drop me an email with a link on [email protected] and you’ll be a part of it!
The Rise of Craft Flair Bartending
There have been videos going pretty viral on Facebook of a guy by the name of Evgeniy Shashin who has an amazing style with his flair, in a style that I’m calling “Craft Flair Bartending”. Its really paired back and has all the huge showy moves taken out in preference of small, incredibly precise jigger bumps, spoon flourishes, nesting of shaker and cheater tins and super accurate pours.
In a second video, you’ll see him performing 8 short and sweet moves with pairs of shakers and cheater tins, each unique and almost impossible to follow. Its a kind of stealth flair that if you were in the bar relaxing and talking to ...