#SaveRoadhouse – An update
Well let’s just start by saying how grateful we are for the continued support the Roadhouse is receiving from the bartending community worldwide. As many of you will already know, one of London’s most iconic venues, the Roadhouse in Covent Garden, recently came under threat from redevelopment plans put forward by the landlord. The Roadhouse […]
Flair bartending: It’s a thing…
Over the course of 2017 the team here at the World Flair Association were contacted by production company Taste Made Travel who are to be launching a new journalistic/lifestyle channel called OffBeat City. The idea of the new channel is to ‘see your favourite cities through the eyes of the tribes that make them tick’, […]
Barstylez Big Match World Bartender Championship 2018: The Result
The first WFA Grand Slam in South East Asia for 2018 has been and gone – and it was great! Bartenders from all around the world flocked to Singapore for the Barstylez Big Match World Bartender Championship 2018, which for only the second time is part of the WFA Grand Slam Tournament. For those who […]
WFA Roadhouse Flair Heats: The Battle Comp
The Roadhouse Battle Competition is always an exciting event and this year’s edition was no different. There are so many things to love about the Battle Comp, in particular its format. Unlike all other flair bartending competitions, the Roadhouse Battle Comp pits bartenders head to head across a qualifying round and finally the knock out […]
WFA Gradings in South America with Roberto Temple
Roberto Temple is a 29 year old bartender from Lima, Peru. A student of Tourism and Hospitality, Roberto’s life as a bartender started in Puerto Maldonado. Here he learned the basics of bartending and cocktails but it was enough to motivate him to learn more and finally decide bartending is what he wanted to do […]
5 flair bartending practice techniques
Everybody has their own way of learning. For some it is more visual, for others it is more action based, perhaps even theoretical. With that in mind we have put together a list of our top 5 flair practice techniques. You may find some of you employ all of these techniques, maybe you use none […]
WFA Gradings in Denmark
Inspired by his own experience learning flair bartending at Flair Camp 2013, Mathias Daa Lofquist has gone on to create his own flair bartending infrastructure in Denmark; allowing Denmark’s bartenders somewhere to socialise, train and further their bartending skill set with classes and WFA Gradings. We spoke to Mathias to discover his journey up until […]
Barstylez Big Match World Bartender Championship, the newest addition to the WFA Grand Slam Calendar
That’s right ladies and gentleman, the world renowned Barstylez Big Match World Bartender Championship from this year (2018) will officially be a WFA Grand Slam event, which means points, points, points! And of course in true WFA Grand Slam fashion the Big Match will also have some tasty cash prizes up for grabs, as well […]
Have you discovered the WFA YouTube Channel WFA Flair Videos?
Have you heard about the WFA YouTube channel, also known as WFA Flair Videos? Fairly new on the scene, the WFA YouTube channel will host lost of juicy upcoming content from the world of flair bartending. Expect to see everything from interviews with your favourite flair bartenders, to their performances in various WFA Grand Slams […]
WFA Gradings & Online Flair Training with Roman Zapata
We have professional bartenders all over the globe who are taking WFA Gradings to all sorts of new levels, encouraging and guiding a plethora of students through the different grades. No one more so than one of our favourite South Americans Roman Zapata. Roman has been teaching flair bartending for the last 6 years and […]