As you will have seen in our latest WFA Grand Slam roundup, this year’s competition is too close to call; every Grand Slam competition remaining will be strongly contended, you can bet on that! And just to make things even more exciting we have added in another WFA Grand Slam event to the calendar – […]
Author Archives: Angus Tookey
Flair Bottle = Fly Bottle
If there is one thing we flair bartenders love it is a new toy. And well, we have one question for you – do you have yours yet!? We are talking about the best thing to come out of France since Brie and Thierry Henry, the Fly Bottle of course. For us there are two […]
New rules and set up for Loolapaloosa Qualification 2017
As many of you will know the next big flair bartending competition coming up is of course the Loolapaloosa Championship in Milan, Italy. There have been some changes to the competition to this year, we sat down with one of the organisers Szabolcs Szoke to talk about why these changes come about and what they […]
Learn how to become a flair bartender with WFA Gradings
A lot of you will have come across the WFA Grading System by now. Established to provide a predefined structure for bartenders to improve their flair bartending and cocktail making skills, thousands of bartenders around the world have completed one or more levels of the WFA Gradings. Starting with Yellow Grade, the WFA Grading system […]
Discussing Chicks with Flicks with Naty Peralta
The only flair bartending competition on the calendar open only to female flair bartenders, Chicks with Flicks is always a great event. Now in its second year as part of the Roadhouse set up, Chicks with flicks is expecting 15 female competitors this year, the top 3 of which will receive the usual prize money, […]
A look at the current top competitors in the WFA Grand Slam Championship
The 2017 WFA Grand Slam World Championship is hotting up to be a really good one. With competitors switching place on the leader board after almost every Grand Slam, nobody is currently a favourite for the title. That of course makes it hard to predict and there is nothing we love more than a wide […]
WFA Flair Bartending World Championship at the Cambridge Cocktail Weekend
Starting this Friday (25th August 2017) is the Cambridge Cocktail Weekend. Happening over the course of three days (25th-27th August) the different rounds of the Grand Slam will be taking place between 7-9PM. The Cambridge Cocktail Weekend is in its 2nd year following a very successful inaugural event. It all kicks off Friday afternoon with […]
WFA Grand Slam: Skilled Flair Bartender 2017 The Results, Memorable Moments & More
The Results Skilled Flair Bartender in Cancun, Mexico went down on the 17th and 18th of August. The second time this tournament has taken place, it was also the first time it was undertaken as a WFA Grand Slam, as well as being our first WFA Grand Slam ever in Central America. It was a […]
How important is the music you choose for your flair routine?
Sound is an important sense and one we use to incite emotions almost on a daily basis. Certain sounds can make you wince and block your ears, others can make you feel happiness and joy, or even sadness. Music is the key to much of this and when used in a flair bartending performance, it […]
Discover the Just Flair League for new bartenders in Poland
Adam Branczyk has been a flair bartender for almost 8 years and a bartender for almost 10. The founder of Poland’s Just Flair League, Adam was first introduced to flair bartending by a colleague at the bar he worked at and developed his love for it further when he undertook a course at a bartender […]