What are your favourite bar tools to practice with?
It is always great to gain an insight into how other bartenders practice. You will be surprised how many people practise in different ways and with different tools. As we talked about with the favourite brands of glass bottles blog, there are no right or wrong bar tools to be practising with. In the end, […]
Result: The Roadhouse Tandem Competition, July 2019
The Roadhouse Tandem competition returned for another year in July. Although it has been off the menu for a few years, Tandem flair comps are coming back with a bang. It is great to see so many flair bartenders getting involved in what is a completely different type of competition to the individual events. Tandem […]
Result: The Roadhouse World Open, June 2019
The latest Roadhouse heat to take place at the end of June was the next instalment in the ever-popular World Open. The Roadhouse World Open events are a big favourite for many of the competing bartenders as score and competition-wise, they are very close to the set up for the Roadhouse Grand Finals in November […]
We asked some of the top flair bartenders which glass bottles they like to flair with and why…
Bottles to a flair bartender are like football boots to a professional footballer, or a set of knifes for a chef – over years of honing your skill you develop your favourite. This may be based on its style, its shape, its weight – many different things. Like with all tools of the trade you […]
WFA Grand Slam Scoring: The importance of relevance
Although not the largest scoring factor in a flair bartender’s competition score, relevance is an important category – particularly if you are looking to score highly in WFA competitions, it is a category you need to understand. We sat down with WFA Grand Slam Coordinator and experienced judge @tomaszmalek, to ask a few questions about the […]
What does it take to become a WFA Grand Slam World Champion?
The highly coveted WFA Grand Slam tournament has been running every year since its inception in 2009. That means we have had 10 completed tournaments but only 6 WFA Grand Slam World Champions. As well as becoming a World Champion the winner will claim a highly coveted WFA Gold Grade, which is the rarest of […]
The WFA longline-T: the bartending accessory for the summer
The longline-T or the long t shirt is one of the latest and coolest trends to enter the world of both men and women’s fashion. Championed by the likes of Kanye West, Chrissy Teigen, and Lewis Hamilton the longline trend is here to stay. Now you can rep the association for flair bartenders all over […]
Result: Bottle Tin is King (#BTiK) 2019
So the next Roadhouse Flair Heat has come and gone and it was the one and only Bottle Tin is King (#BTiK). BTiK is always a popular event, mainly due to the differences it has to many other flair bartending competitions. With the bartender only allowed to use 2 objects at any one time, the […]
Barstylez The Big Match, 2019: The result, memorable moments and more
The second and one of the most challenging WFA Grand Slams of the year is over, Barstylez The Big Match has concluded and the final turned out to be an exceptionally tight competition between the top 2 bartenders. Featuring 23 competitors from 10 different countries and taking place during the Singapore Cocktail Festival – The […]
The race for the 2019 WFA Grand Slam World Champion is hotting up…
With the next WFA Grand Slam in the year long tournament soon to be upon us, we thought it a good time to have a look at the current standings in the Championship for this year, as well as to look at who is competing in the next event and what to expect. Although one […]