The Cocktail Nation was invited to attend the Northern Europe Finals of the famous Diageo World Class Coktail Competition at the Nolet distillery in Schiedam, the Netherlands. What follows is an account of the absolute blast we had that day! Article and Photos by Mickaël Editing by Rolf The competition took place at the Nolet…
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Observations from Diageo World Class 2018 Benelux Finals
Well, the first one is easy of course, David Lebeer won for Belgium! He’ll be representing Belgium on the Global Finals hosted this year in Berlin and we wanted to create a little buzz (pun intended) here. Didn’t get the pun? Well he has a thing going on with bees and with a surname which…
Jurgen Nobels wins Diageo World Class Belgium 2015!
Wow! Ladies and gentlemen, what a match! If you think bartending is easy feel free to enlist next year in what is commonly known as ‘the Olympics of Bartending’ – Diageo World Class! After more than 10 hours of competing, Belgium finally has a candidate to send to the Global Finals in South Africa: Mr….
The 10 bartenders who made it to the Belgian finals of Diageo World Class 2015
After an intense two round preselection we finally selected 10 contestants who will compete against each other for the title of Best Belgian Bartender and only one of them will win a ticket to the World Finals of the most prestigious cocktail competition in the world which will take place in South Africa. Your’s truly…
Bar Convent Berlin 2014 – Too soon for the next trend in cocktails and spirits?
BCB or Bar Convent Berlin, is easily the biggest cocktail and spirits convention of Europe. Now having successfully closed it’s 8th edition and welcomed more than 9000 visitors it should call itself EBC – Berlin (European Bar Convent – Berlin). Because – and we quote a female bartender standing in the waiting line – “Holy…
Dogma Cocktails – Antwerp
Boozy Excitement Under The Cathedral’s Bell Tower It’s almost a year now that you can visit a new exquisite cocktail bar near Antwerp’s Cathedral. Head bartender and owner is Didier Van den Broeck who became third at Diageo World Class Belgium 2014. This guy is a hurricane, he manages two or three different conversations and…
Hannah Van Ongevalle wins Diageo World Class Belgium 2014
For the first time in years there was girlpower on the stage of the Diago World Class Belgian Finals, Hannah Van Ongevalle and Sofie Ketels have definitely proven that the Belgian bartenderscene is no longer a male monopoly. Well, I must say, this was a very exciting competition. Eleven contenders, lots of new faces. Amongst…
VENUEZ13: twee dagen high-end hospitality op de meest indrukwekkende spirits en cocktailbeurs van de Benelux.
The Cocktail Nation ging naar VENUEZ13 en zag dat het goed was. Een verslag van indrukken. Dag 2 Begon onmiddellijk lekker met het onderwerp ‘bier in cocktails’ gepresenteerd door onze eigen Jeroen Van Hecke en Dries Botty van de L’Apereau te Blankenberge. Inspelend op de globale cocktailtrend om meer en meer lokale ingrediënten te…
Olivier Jacobs bereidt zich voor op Diageo Finals in Rio
The Jiggers Gent, een review. Voor onze reservatie moest er al een klein beetje gepuzzeld worden, dus ik verwachte een drukke bedoening toen ik aanbelde aan de bescheiden voordeur van de Jiggers Speakeasy te Gent. We wachtten geduldig tot er iemand de trap op stormde, de deur zwaaide open en we werden onmiddellijk hartelijk ontvangen….
De 5 Beste Belgische Mixologen
Ik weet niet of er veel cocktail-meerwaardezoekers zijn in ons Belgenlandje? Wanneer ik mezelf soms als dusdanig waag te profileren, staren ze me meestal aan op een manier alsof ze zouden kijken naar een dobermann met 6 poten die in brand staat. Dat wil zeggen: een ongelijke mix van fascinatie, angst en een paar druppeltjes ‘je-ne-sais-quoi’….
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