Today the same company makes an enormous variety of flavored spirits, and operates Europe's largest bartender training school, turning out 3,000 mixologists per year.
The lucky rocker will learn the secrets to pouring bourbon from Jim Beam's Master Mixologist, who will offer one-on-one bartender training.
Andrew and Spencer decided they weren't going to do any interviews about the place and supposedly no photography's allowed inside (we'll see how long that lasts), but Andrew did invite me over while they were doing bartender training to sketch the place as a little "sneak peek" so that's what happened..
Tredje Långgatan 8, brewersbeerbar.se Hush-Hush One of only a few dedicated cocktail bars in Gothenburg, Hush-Hush's success is down to Julio Gonzalo Chang Romero, a bartender who trained at the Arts Club in London's Mayfair.
Still, he says, John Smith, the bartender who trained him, is the one who shared the doughboy story, and John Smith -- "His picture's on the wall here somewhere" -- began working at McSorley's sometime around the Great Depression.
They were ambitious young New Yorkers — waitresses, students, musicians, bartenders, chefs in training.
Meanwhile, the company's Marriott chain has been training bartenders in the art of mixing cocktails made with fresh juices, fruit and herbs, which means muddling raspberries and blueberries, or crushing mint leaves for the perfect mojito.
Mr. Frizell and Mr. Sidle said that most bars haven't bothered with proper coffee drinks because of the headaches of proper coffee service: acquiring the equipment; carving out enough space for it; training bartenders to be baristas as well; asking them to take the time during busy hours to make fresh cups of coffee, which is the only way really to get things right.
The Women's Center of Southeastern Connecticut hopes to extend its training to bartenders, as well as taxi drivers and veterinarians.
"A chef can go to culinary school, but there's no academy where bartenders can get their training," Mr. DeGroff said.
Point points the way: from turningpoint to talking point to hinge point to Malcolm Gladwell's tipping point to a recent, jocular Wall Street Journal headline over a "reefer" (front-page promotion of an article inside) about advanced training for bartenders, "the economy's tippling point".
