{"id":190,"date":"2004-07-25T18:51:19","date_gmt":"2004-07-26T00:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=346"},"modified":"2004-07-25T18:51:19","modified_gmt":"2004-07-26T00:51:19","slug":"legends-of-bartending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"Legends of Bartending"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were watching the Legends of Bartending World Championships last night of The Food Network.\u00c2\u00a0 Gosh, these guys (and girls) do some pretty amazing things.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought bartending was bartending.\u00c2\u00a0 I had no idea there was such a thing as flair bartending.\u00c2\u00a0 After you advance to the finals (only twelve finalists get to advance), the competition has four events or rounds: speed, accuracy, working flair and entertainment flair.<\/p>\n

\"<\/a>The reigning king of bartending, Christian Delpech<\/font><\/a> won first place.\u00c2\u00a0 His brother came in second and his girlfriend came in 11th or 12th.\u00c2\u00a0 I can’t remember specifically, but the narrator made a big deal out of it considering it was her first competition.<\/p>\n

You thought Tom Cruise was hot in Cocktail<\/font><\/a>?\u00c2\u00a0 Christian makes Tom look like a chump!\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s a video showing some highlights of what these entertainment flair bartenders can do<\/font><\/a> (it’s a large video file so it may take a while to download, you may want to skip it altogether if you’re on dialup).\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know if Christian is still bartending these days.\u00c2\u00a0 I believe he’s retired.\u00c2\u00a0 If he’s still bartending, I would sure like to see him perform in person.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s very impressive stuff.<\/p>\n

[update] If you go to the Flair Devils<\/font><\/a> website, it says that he’s still working at Carnaval Court in Harrah’s Las Vegas.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know if that info is outdated but it sure makes me wanna go! [\/update]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were watching the Legends of Bartending World Championships last night of The Food Network.\u00c2\u00a0 Gosh, these guys (and girls) do some pretty amazing things.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought bartending was bartending.\u00c2\u00a0 I had no idea there was such a thing as flair bartending.\u00c2\u00a0 After you advance to the finals (only twelve finalists get to advance), the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}