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Good day everyone Today I am going to talk about what it takes to make a good cocktail.  Like everything in life there is a special ingredient. There are many people that talks about the secret ingredient; in success, in food in relationships and so there is a secret ingredient in cocktails too. Can you guess what it is? You got it, it is love or passion. Without a passion for cocktails, a love for making tasty drinks you will not make a great cocktail, period. I have worked in several different bars and many times I worked with really fine bartenders but they were not true mixologist or liquid chefs. Yes, I said chefs because just like a culinary chef, you, as a mixologist, are making something from a bunch of ingredients that someone is going to consume.  I digress, the point I am getting at is that every single bartender that I worked with in the same bar at the same time, were using the same recipe as me. They did not vary a single drop from what I did becau...

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Have you ever watched a movie and said to yourself that's what I want to do? Well that is what happened to me. I watched the movie Cocktail with  Tom Cruise ,  Bryan Brown , and  Elisabeth Shue.  From the moment after I watched it I knew that this; is the lifestyle for me. I wanted to work on a beach on an island in a laid back cocktail bar. Yes, the prospect of meeting new women every day was another aspect that was appealing, maybe that was the real reason I wanted to do it but lets not get into that. So from that moment, I made it my mission to do what I wanted to do. I searched high and low for opportunities. I studied Hotel Management and worked in different bars and pubs. Eventually I got my professional qualification as a bartender and from here I worked as a cocktail bar manager, bar consultant etc for several places. I became very successful concerning my trade but yet something was missing. Finally in 2004 I got THE opportunity. Well, not exactly I...