Speed Rack is coming back to Cali this weekend. First they make a stop in San Francisco on February 24 and then the all-female competition heads to San Diego March 3. Sadly they won’t be making a stop in LA this year so head on down to SD (or up to SF!). SF Contenders: Alica […]
Although the Speed Rack Finals were in May, I thought it would be fun to look back at one of my favorite events at Manhattan Cocktail Classic. I had been following the regionals starting with Portland then Los Angeles and Las Vegas before heading out to NYC for the finals. Oh boy, the Chartreuse luge […]
Speed Rack has wrapped up its 10-city tour with a stop in Las Vegas. The competition took place at the Swingers Club at the Plaza Hotel in Downtown Vegas. The winner is Hsiu-Ting Yu from Fusion Bar at the Palazzo. She beat out 7 other ladies including a few who traveled from out of state. […]
The Speed Rack National Tour comes to Las Vegas this Sunday, March 11th. From 3 – 7 PM at the Swingers Club at the Plaza Hotel in Downtown Las Vegas, guests are invited to punches, cocktails, beer, food and fun! Watch Vegas bartenders compete to raise money for breast cancer research. The winner wins a […]
The last few weeks have been busy in The Minty land. I was in Seattle and Portland last month namely for Portland Cocktail Week. While I just finished posting about Seattle, it’s been a bit tougher gathering my thoughts about Portland Cocktail Week. There were so many seminars, activities and parties but one of my […]
2019 January San Antonio Cocktail Conference, January 14-20 Speed Rack (San Francisco), January 13 Paris Cocktail Week, January 18-26 The Whisky X (Santa Monica/ Los Angeles) January 25 Palm Springs Craft Cocktail Week, California, January 25- February 2 Speed Rack (South Central), January 27 February Miami Rum Congress, February 8-9 American Craft Spirits Association […]
March 2014 LA Cocktails Bacardi Pool Party Wray & Nephew Bone Luge at Craft & Commerce Hawaiian Luau at Coin Op with the Bon Vivants Pernod Ricard Party at Polite Provisions Speed Rack San Diego Weird Off at Seven Grand San Diego The Minty Bols Genever at URBN House Spirits and Campari at […]
This year has been zooming along and for Throwback Thursday, I thought it’d be fun to recap San Diego Bartenders Weekend that happened in early March. SDBW has rapidly become one of my favorite cocktail weeks or rather, it’s almost an anti-cocktail week because there is no education component (seminars). It’s all about bartenders […]
I’m in this really cool cocktail club called LUPEC or Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails. LUPEC originally started in Pittsburgh and there are several chapters around the country. Some are namely drinking societies but most have a charitable slant. The LUPEC chapter in New York started Speed Rack, a bartending competition […]
As part of Bartenders Weekend, one of the after-parties for Speed Rack was at El Dorado bar. It was sponsored by Brugal Rum. LA bartender and new Remy Cointreau ambassador Lindsay Nader guest bartended. For $5 a cocktail, we probably should have tried all the cocktails but we settled for two of the three. […]
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