Philippine Bartending Retrospect in 2013
This year definitely deserves to be reflected upon for it was swamped with activities which truly has a lot of learning.
Philippine Beverage Congress part 2 featuring Tomek Malek which we held in Padi's Point Araneta. We still hold the record for attendance during part 1 which is at 750.It was a solemn event and informative one since we learned a lot from the best in the world this year.
Liquid Concepts - Our friend Larry Guevarra, one of the "real" legends in Philippine Bartending is definitely in the country. After being the champion in the mixology cup, He is now whipping up those concoctions in the Bottleshop. If you want to learn...drop by his shop in Magallanes.
Bacardi Myxology University is something new to the academe. Bacardi rum which is an international brand decided that it is time to connect with the schools and Pinoytender partnered with them to make it possible. For it's initial launch it was participated by 6 different schools like Lyceum of the Philippines University, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, University of Santo Tomas, and Systems Plus College. We were able to invite resident speaker of Bacardi by the name of Arijit Bose from India. After this run we even held a seminar for the professional bartenders in Manila and it was held in Crowne Plaza.
Bacardi Myxology Competition - After the successful run of the seminar it was time to put up a mixology competition for students. The main objective of this competition is to let the student make a cocktail while talking infront of the guest. Our distinguished panel of judges included Erwan Heussaff of Niner Ichi Nana, Adrian Gearing of Holland America Line and Noel del Rosario of N20 Gastropub.
Molecular Mixology by Liquid Chef Neil Ocampo - we helped Hatters Inc. launch this concept in Philippine Bartending and we even learned and fell in love with cryogenics and emulsification.
Monin Cup 2013 - This year we helped Savoroso to organize their yearly competition. We were able to make it the much anticipated event for the mid year.
Philippine Flair Open 2013 - The year of activities was capped of by the biggest flairtending competition in the country. Judges were form Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan and Korea. Foreign participants came from Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam and Russia.
Media support from F&B World and HNM - we were able to get media exposure from them.
Rob Husted Flairbar.com - the main man in online magazine about bartending has graciously supported us by writing articles and promoting our events. Thank you Rob.
The year has been good and well worked.With all the learnings we got from all these events, we will take all of these and bring them one for next year making sure we exceed the things that we did for this year.
To our brothers at World Flair Association - we are currently at a state wherein we are one especially after Philippine Flair Open 2013. We will continuously work on it. Thank you for still keeping us in the loop despite of all the prior events.
To our supporters, friends, sponsors,partners,and others.We thank you from the bottom of our hearts.We live. We learn. On thing we learned is the L in LEARN which means LOVE. We LOVE Bartending and we will show it in all events that we do to inspire others to LEARN as well.
