With just a couple years of producing the finest local gin, Inverroche Distillery has created an award-winning bartending competition, which sees the annual champion graduate develop and create their
After being named Champion Bartender, Pichas hand-crafted a limited-edition, first-of-its-kind Inverroche Pioneers Collection gin.
On 24 February we celebrate one of the oldest professions… bartending of
course! Though we think of it as a modern age career, bartending can be
traced back to ancient Rome, Greece and Asia. In fact, there is record of a
bartender all the way back to when Julius Caesar ruled Rome. Along popular travel routes, you’d find drinking houses where you could rest your wary feet with a mug of ale and wine. They eventually spread into towns. In the Middle Ages, innkeepers would brew their own beer and wine which they’d serve to their guests. These became taverns and pubs where locals could share a bit of gossip with their tipple.
Travis Kuhn has just opened a hot new bar in Cape Town called the Vicious Virgin, alongside co-owners Kelby Schnetler and Leah van Deventer.