Team USA Take Out 42 Below Cocktail World Cup

From more than two thousand bartenders around the world, Saturday saw the Team USA trio of Mark Stoddard, Todd Thrasher and Sean Hoard emerged as the clear winners in the sixth 42 Below Cocktail World Cup.

42 Below Cocktail World Cup… all the action!

It is the sixth year of the event, the world’s most extreme and prestigious bartending competition and marks ten years since 42BELOW founder Geoff Ross sold his first bottle of homemade vodka to a bar in Wellington. This year it’s all about ‘Love, Drinks and Rock n Roll Baby’

Most Influential Top 50 Announced

The votes are in for Bartender magazine’s Most Influential List in association with Diageo’s Alchemy. Read on to find out the who made the Top 50 based on your trade votes…

Entries for the 42 Below Cocktail World Cup Close Tomorrow

Last call for all bartender extraordinaires! 42 Below is on the hunt for the nation’s brightest bar stars to fly the Aussie flag and compete in the sixth annual 42 Below Cocktail World Cup, set to shake up New Zealand in March 2010.

42 Below Cocktail World Cup 2010 Launches at Sydney BarShow

The infamous 42 Below Cocktail World Cup is back! Sydney BarShow 2009 will mark the official launch of the sixth year of this annual international bartending competition, designed to challenge and educate the world’s leading bartenders like no other.

42 Below Holds Brisbane’s Fifth Annual ‘Ready, Steady, Shake’

April 20 saw 42 Below celebrate its fifth year of Brisbane’s ‘Ready, Steady, Shake’ competition. As many of you well know this bartending comp is a unique and fast-paced affair requiring bartenders to think on their feet…

COCKTAILS: Scrambled, Poached or Shaken…

Amy Spanton discovers that eggs are a key cocktail ingredient in everything from egg nog to the whisky sour.

I was having a drink with a friend the other night and I ordered a whisky sour. “It has egg white in it,” I said in passing. “That’s disgusting,” she spat. “Why on earth do they [...]