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In this installment of our ongoing series introducing you to your fellow CPBA members, we meet Jason Browne of Vancouver’s Calabash Bistro, a gentleman and a barman, and the recent winner of the 2nd Annual CPBA Cup Competition. 1. What’s your ‘how I got into bartending’ story? I was in high school making plans [...]
[By Lauren Mote, currently published for BC Liquor Distribution Board, and available in LDB's Taste Magazine, Spring 2012 issue] If flora and fauna can be described as the balance of our natural environment, then perhaps a similar notion can be used to describe the balance of spirits. As most of us already know, fine spirits [...]
Why did so many world-class cocktails – the Mojito, Daiquiri, Mulata and Cuba Libre, to name just a few – originate in Cuba? The answer has a lot to do with the quality of the rum and the inventiveness of local bartenders. Today the originating continues and the city’s status as “cocktail mecca” remains unchallenged, [...]