New Job
Two weeks ago I started picking up two shifts per week at the local Hilton to help out my friend Josh, the manager there, while they search for a permanent full-time bartender. Turns out working 6 days and 60 hours/week hasn't left me with much time to get new videos up. I'm gonna schedule time to film some more flair moves and recipes this week and do my best to get them up Monday. Hang in there, more goods are coming, I promise. On that note, any drinks you'd like to see made? I'm going to do a Sex on the Beach, a Chocolate Martini, a Cosmo, and a few others, but I'm open to hearing about any of your favorites.
So far, I'm liking the Hilton - extra hours, extra money, new people - but I'm anxious to get back to spending more time on this site, as well as a few other projects I'm working on. So, if you're in the Madison, WI area, and you're looking for a full-time position at the absolute nicest hotel in town, stop by the Hilton and ask for Josh Foley. Great place to work, and I'd stay there myself, if I didn't already have a full-time job. That, and I have serious moral objections to working more than 40 hours per week....
Oh, and the absolute only negative thing I can say about the place is, they use jiggers!! What's up with that? After 10 years of free-pouring, I can pour exactly 1/2 oz, 1 oz, 1 1/4 oz, and 2 oz, on the dot everytime. I almost didn't know how to use the damn thing. Anybody else out there still using jiggers? Do you prefer them or is it a managerial thing? It's like having a calculator right in front of you but still using an abacus - drives me nuts. A good bartender with a Spill-Stop 285-50 can pour more acurately, more swiftly, any day of the week over some bottle-jockey with a jigger. Am I wrong?
Check back next week for some sweet new moves. I'll even throw in some extras to make up for lost time:)
Hilton Jigger New Job | 7 Comments
Reader Comments (7)
I must say I am most disappointed in this update. Just kidding, glad to see that you're not dead after Matt's bar crawl that I am sad I missed. Also, bring the damn yoyo into work!
nice to know the update yey i wanna learn more coz ive learned all the other moves 85% done well everytime :)
thanks to chris and nice to know the updates
Yeah I have to use jiggers to and it is worthless! Ok for the idiot new girls they keep hiring that cant count to 3 without there fingers. These things seriously damper my flair ability. But personally I do like using measurements for some of my very classy cocktails that need to be spot on down to teaspoons. I think they really should just put individual bartenders to the test and grant us professionals the freedom of free pouring.
are you gonna have a new site?
if so please update us when the new site is ok
thx for the tuts chris it really helped :)
wow its been many weeks with no updates, im glad that there is an update yey!
and yeah jiggers do make bartenders like using a calculator hahahaha
man i really want to have a flairco flair bottle but sadly we dont have money to buy one
we dont even have glass bottles here coz no one here drinks those O_o
i only practice plastic bottles those little plastic once :(
is there a site where you can get free flairco flair bottle?
i'd really appriciate it...
love to see more of those tutorials thanks again chris for the update
Hey Chris!
I'm from Hungary, and I keep visiting your blog frequently. I like the moves, you are teaching, and hope that gonna be able to see s'more soon.
Anyways with the jiggers... they are damn things I know. I'm a free-pour-man too and I was forced to use them in the Corinthia 5-star Hotel in Malta. They aren't that bad btw, I was able to make pretty good cocktails with it and the guests were all about it! In a hotel, you have plenty of time to pour the drink into the jigger and than into the glass and serve.
At European cocktail-shaking competitions (Bols, Mojito, etc.) it is compulsory to use them, because of the IBA standards list it like that.
Take it easy guys and greetings to all American bartenders!
Z
i though there would be updates this monday?
is it next monday? am i wrong?
@_@ i wanna learn more flair and cocktail making :)