On this Martini Day, welcome to this new issue of Jigger Daily, your 100% bars and bartenders newsletter!

This month's menu (among other things!):

• 🤝 The acquisition of the Little Red Door
• 🧙 A liqueur competition
• 👯 A cocktail and performance bar
• 🌶 The trendiest flavors of summer
• 🍸 Atlas in Paris
• 🛂 The first Prague Cocktail Week
• ♻ Tips for a more sustainable bar
• 🥁 A Martini in beatbox
• 🏆 Numerous cocktail competitions
• ⚽ The economic impact of Euro 2024 on bars
• 🥤 A Cuba Libre without Coca

And much more!

🧙‍♂️ Wizard Awards 2024: create the Gabriel Boudier liqueur of tomorrow!

To celebrate its 150th anniversary, the Gabriel Boudier House invites French bartenders for the very first time this year to participate in its liqueur creation competition: the Wizard Awards! Beyond a usual cocktail competition, this is about creating one of the cornerstones of your future recipes, with the chance to see your creation join the 2025 range of the Burgundy liquorist! So, are you tempted by this unique opportunity? Registrations are already open: click below to sign up, get your participation kit, and bring your original liqueur to life!

🍹 Bars

Little Red Door

This is the big bar news of the week: the founders of Cambridge Public House (Paris), Hugo Gallou and Hyacinthe Lescoët, have acquired the Little Red Door! Ranked 6th in the 50 Best Bars 2023, it had recently announced its closure due to internal conflicts. The bar will reopen in July after some renovations, with its nine remaining employees and six to seven new hires. Timothée Prangé, the bar's founder in 2012, expressed his gratitude to the new owners - Source

Sister Midnight

On the occasion of the launch of the new menu at Sister Midnight, Jigger Daily met with Jen Riley to learn more about the genesis and concept of her bar (both cocktails and cabaret), the process of creating her recipes, her commitment to hospitality, and the cocktail scene in her hometown, Manchester - Read more

Flashback

The CopperBay is currently celebrating its 10th anniversary with a new menu paying homage to the 80s and 90s, aptly named Flashback. It features 8 cocktails from that era reinvented with contemporary ingredients and - most importantly - less sugar. Discover it now until the end of September - Source

Bluebird Equinoxe

Since its launch in 2016, Bluebird has been a staple of Parisian bars. Nicoló Martino, its head bartender, presented us with his new menu Equinoxe, designed around the idea of cyclicality, before sketching out the traits of an "Italian bar school" and sharing his views on the current transalpine scene - Read more

Neo-Bauhaus

The future Bordeaux bar of Remy Savage, the 🟧🟩🟪🟨🟥🟦 (or "a bar with shapes for a name"), has given some news! Its inauguration is expected by early July and, apparently, they already have the chairs! 😅 - Source

Mysteries of the World

Paradiso (#1 of the 50 Best Bars 2022) has launched its new menu "Mysteries of the World" during the last Paradiso Sustainability Summit. It features 15 cocktails, each paying tribute to an unsolved mystery... with a result that seems just as wow - Source

Divine

Divine (Paris) is changing ownership. This was announced by Nicolas Munoz, its founder (also behind the bar Bisou). Its new owner is Shaba Salami (@shaba_ang) - Source

Ninkasi

Ninkasi continues its expansion and will open its first establishment in the south of France, in Montpellier, this Friday, June 21. Other openings are also planned in Lille, Metz, Besançon, then Rennes and Grenoble, as well as franchises in Toulouse and Bordeaux in 2025 - Source

🍒 Mathieu Teisseire Flavour Masters 2024: Maxence Piattelli won the France final!

As expected, the French final of the Flavour Masters, the cocktail competition organized by Mathieu Teisseire, took place on Monday, May 27, in Paris. After a rich day filled with 3 creative challenges for the 7 finalists present, it was ultimately Maxence Piattelli from Requin Cocktails in La Rochelle who was crowned the winner! He will represent France at the international grand final of the competition, which will take place next October.

Until then, find all the details and behind-the-scenes of this beautiful mixology event on the website!

🏆 Other competitions

In other competition news:

• After 8 hours of deliberations, the Bartender Beach Challenge revealed the list of the 10 candidates selected for its final on July 1 - See
• The same goes for Nc'nean, which revealed the 69 qualifiers for the regional phases of its competition Nc'nean Creations, including 11 bartenders for the Paris stage - List
• Nikka Whisky has launched the 13th edition of its Nikka Perfect Serve competition. Fifteen national stages will take place in North America, Asia, and Europe (including France, which was on June 17 at the Experimental Cocktail Club), with a global final scheduled for December 2 and 3 in Paris - Source
• Another new competition is currently being launched in France: the St-Germain Spritz Club. Registrations are open until July 2, with regional finals planned for September and October - Source
• As for results, the non-alcoholic brand JNPR held the international final of its very first JNPR Cocktail Competition on June 3 in Paris. After the trials, it was Petros Vossos from Upupa Epops in Greece who won - Source
• Esmeralda Castrogiovanni, from the bar Sips in Barcelona, won the The Art of Italicus Aperitivo Challenge, whose international final took place in Rome in mid-May. Jan Križaj from Ljubljana and Stephanie Wullschleger from Basel took second and third places respectively - Source
• The global final of the World Class 2024 will take place in Shanghai from September 9 to 13. This will be the first time this event is held in China - Source

🧋 Trends

Summer Flavors

If you're looking for ideas for your next creations, Diageo has identified (with the help of AI) 5 flavor trends for the upcoming summer: umami (+79% interest in turmeric in the UK and +55% for gochujang in the US), spicy (+32% for jalapeño in the UK and +53% for pepperoncini in Australia), tropical (+50% for tamarind in the US and +18% for guava in the UK), indulgent (+12% for coffee in the UK and +91% for hazelnut globally), and floral (+67% for elderflower in France and +36% for rhubarb in Canada) - Source

Slushies

More predictably, according to a study by Paragon Brands conducted in April among 2000 Britons, alcoholic Slushies will be the star drink of the summer, favored by 24% of respondents and up to 47% among Gen Z. One third (34%) of respondents generally prefer frozen cocktails over classic versions, finding them more refreshing for 61% of them (which is probably self-evident) - Source

Sustainable Bars

In another style, if you're looking for ideas to reduce your environmental footprint in your bar, Barmag has listed 10 commandments to help you in your task. Among these, for example, is working with as many artisanal, local, and organic products as possible, recycling waste intelligently (e.g. lemon zests, peels, discarded glasses...), saving ice by loading less into mixing glasses and storing glasses in the fridge, or ordering spirits in bulk. - Source

Euro 2024

If England wins the Euro 2024 football tournament (from June 14 to July 14), British bars and pubs could see their sales increase by £800 million. According to UK Hospitality, even just during the current group stage, sales could reach £340 million, with two out of five British spectators planning to watch the matches in pubs or bars - Source

🛫 Jigger Daily on Tour

Prague Cocktail Week

From May 6 to 13, the very first edition of the Prague Cocktail Week took place. Residents and visitors of the Czech capital were invited to enjoy cocktails at reduced prices in about thirty establishments in the city, and Barnews was there! Cocktails, events, guest shifts, and competitions, we tell you all about it on the site! - Read more

Atlas Singapore in Paris

For one evening, on June 15, the Bar Les Ambassadeurs at the Hôtel de Crillon in Paris hosted Yana Keller from the impressive Atlas bar in Singapore (48th in the 50 Best Bars 2023) for a memorable guest shift... Read more

🥁 To see or listen

Beatbox at the Connaught

If you love Martinis AND beatbox, the team at the Connaught Bar in London had fun combining the two in a video where the execution of their signature cocktail is mouth-sounded by a master of the genre, the Italian Alberto Niero (aka BlackRoll) - See

Death Alley

The Hellfest continues to develop its cocktail section. The festival, which will take place from June 27 to 30, will feature - among other things - a dedicated street, aptly named Death Alley, with 6 themed bars created with its partners Jägermeister, Fireball, Sailor Jerry (which is returning and replacing Kraken), Ardbeg, ... as well as local / Made in France brands. And even a bit of clear ice via The Nice Company (that's saying something!).

If you're interested in the topic, I had the opportunity to discuss all this in detail in the latest episode of the DistilCast, alongside Marjorie Dumontel (aka Mrs. Cocktail of Hellfest) -  See / Listen

🥼 DIY

Fat Wash 2.0

For Vinepair, GN Chan (Double Chicken Please) described an original way to perform the fat wash technique, not to impart the flavor of a fatty substance to a spirit (e.g. bacon etc.), but rather by using fat (butter here) to first extract flavors from other ingredients (e.g. cinnamon, coffee, mushrooms, ...), and then using this infused (and filtered) fat to flavor a spirit. Clever! - Source

Cuba Libre without Coca

In a new video on his channel, Cesar Debus revisits the recipe for a Cuba Libre, without using Coca! Instead, he makes a homemade liqueur based on vodka and Haribo cola candies, later topped with sparkling water - See

🏅 Awards

Spirited Awards

Since the previous edition of Jigger Daily, the Tales of the Cocktail Foundation has successively unveiled the Top 10 and then the Top 4 nominees for each of its categories for the Spirited Awards 2024 ceremony, which will take place on July 25. Two Parisian establishments are still in the running: Danico (potential Best International Restaurant Bar) and Bar Nouveau (potential Best New International Cocktail Bar).

50 Best Bars

As for the rest, the 50 Best Bars 2024 ceremony (the 16th of its kind) will take place in Madrid on October 22 - Source

Top 500 Bars

And less than 3 weeks later, it will be the turn of the Top 500 Bars to reveal its Top 100 most influential bars in the world, on November 10 in Paris - Source

📰 Press Releases

• The Lehmann House announces the launch of its new Signature Collection F. Thireau, dedicated to the art of mixology - See

The Lehmann House, a French brand of tasting glasses, has taken the codes from its previous Wine & Champagne Signature collections to apply them to the world of Mixology by creating 13 glasses inspired by the most audacious as well as the most classic cocktails.

• Le Bar Le Gaspard presents its new cocktail menu - See
• Sorrentini invites you to rediscover limoncello in Spritz and Smash - See
• The C Spirits opens its rooftop - See
• The Frescu: the cocktail of the summer created by Terra Vecchia and Anne-Lise - See
• Mathieu Teisseire innovates with two new and exotic flavors: Green Pepper and Masala Chai Tea - See

💌 That's all folks!

That's all for this issue! A big thank you again to Gabriel Boudier for his support! Don't forget to register for the Wizard Awards 2024 by clicking below!

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With that, have a great shift, and see you in a month for a new edition!