Bartenders and bar operators and house owners from throughout Australia are invited to share data and expertise on the inaugural Bartenders’ Weekender, which is happening in Brisbane in June.
The brainchild of trade specialists Penny Sippe and Sam Bygrave the Bartenders’ Weekender is a three-day bar present, centred round bars and bartending and aimed toward serving to to drive Brisbane’s bar scene to the subsequent degree.
“The concept is to get bartenders from across the nation to return to Brisbane and provides them some schooling, share data and provides them a enjoyable time as nicely and actually to only encourage the subsequent technology that’s developing as nicely,” Sam informed Bars and Golf equipment.
The Bartenders’ Weekender will happen throughout Brisbane from Sunday 16 June by way of to Tuesday 18 June, with the Monday and Tuesday containing plenty of masterclasses and talks aimed toward sharing and bettering data.
Sam added: “We have already got plenty of audio system lined up from across the nation and we’re engaged on getting a few worldwide audio system to return to city they usually can both do a presentation or an in-depth interview on stage and discover the actual matters that they’re well-versed in.
“We’ve received Jason Williams lined-up, Natalie Ng, Matt Whiley, Stefano Catino and Hayden Lambert are all coming as nicely, with just a few extra native audio system as nicely.”
Sam and myself will even have a chat on stage sooner or later over the weekender, providing recommendation on how bartenders and bars can work with the media, the right way to method media and the way we are able to work collectively to supply nice content material and construct profiles.
The weekender will even function bar takeovers, as you’ll anticipate with this type of bar present, however Sam is hoping to have the ability to construct one thing a bit completely different with this weekend.
“We’re actually making an attempt to encourage takeovers to be extra collaborative, as a result of typically with these weeks all over the world there’s a takeover, however it’s received nothing to do with the house bar the place the bartender is from.
“We wish to do these dwelling bars justice, so we to arrange extra collaboration between the bars and get an change of concepts. That’s actually what it’s all about. Sure, we’ll have some events and we’re doing the classes as nicely however actually we wish to shine a lightweight on Brisbane.”
There may be some extra info on the Bartenders’ Weekender web site, and Bars and Golf equipment, together with Boothby Media will hold you recent with all the pieces you can anticipate in Brisbane in June. See you there.
