Helicopter rides, regional superb eating, Masterchef’s cooking you breakfast? Winner winner, rooster dinner.
Step into the By no means By no means is again for its fourth 12 months with a brand new give attention to flavour developments and a bartender prize that’s onerous to match. This 12 months, bartenders are inspired to “Toast the Coast” by serving a gin and tonic that embraces our proximity to a few of the biggest seashores and coastlines on this planet.
“Greater than 85 per cent of Australians dwell lower than an hour from the coast,” says Co-Founder at By no means By no means Sean Baxter. “Coastal serves have gotten an enormous a part of how individuals are consuming cocktails and blended drinks across the nation,” he says.
“The competitors asks bartenders (of all ranges) to make a twisted G&T and a 3 ingredient cocktail that causes a stir, one thing that’s within the wheelhouse of most succesful bartenders within the nation.” – Co-Founder at By no means By no means Sean Baxter
It’s not only a gin and tonic that bartenders can be requested to make and similar to any balanced drinks menu, there’s all the time room for one thing just a little extra complicated. “Rivals may even must create a cocktail that celebrates flavour in its easiest format, one thing that causes a stir regardless of solely utilizing a handful of different modifying substances,” says Sean,
Bartenders can be required to create a cocktail utilizing solely three substances, with just a few cheeky ‘cheat sheet’ choices thrown in to stimulate individuals’s creativity. “We’re not together with salt, sugar, yeast, CO2 and stabilising acids resembling malic and citric acids among the many chosen three substances,” says Sean, “so you should use these with out them being counted.”
“The competitors asks bartenders (of all ranges) to make a twisted G&T and a 3 ingredient cocktail that causes a stir, one thing that’s within the wheelhouse of most succesful bartenders within the nation,” says Sean.
“The one factor which we all the time hammer house in regards to the bartender challenges is that they’re merely that, simply challenges … there isn’t any level accumulation or general winner, there isn’t a subsequent stage to go on to try to grow to be a world grand champion, there’s sufficient of that on the market,” says Sean.
What to do!
All the small print are right here!
- Make a twist on a Coastal G&T (with Triple Juniper, Ginache or Oyster Shell)
- Make a Three-ingredient cocktail (with Triple Juniper, Ginache or Oyster Shell)
- Make a drink that’s memorable
- The 2 drinks should be dwell in your venue from Wednesday, Might 1st, 2024, in order that’s your deadline
- The drinks themselves and the menu that they’re being offered from should be submitted on the web site through the web portal right here.
The Prize
“Similar to final 12 months, we’re bringing three general winners from wherever within the nation to our house within the Vale,” says Sean. “It doesn’t matter if you happen to’re tending bar in Brisbane, Broome or Bondi, everybody will get the identical alternative to win a spot in our luxurious McLaren Vale lodging.”
This 12 months’s winners can be immersed in a as soon as in a lifetime McLaren Vale expertise, taking in all of the area has to supply after which some.
“Suppose luxurious regional lodging, helicopter transfers to our distillery door, eating experiences in a few of the state’s most celebrated eating places and a distillery bartending expertise with a twist,” says Sean.
“We’re speaking about spending time with the perfect wine, meals, and low producers within the area. It is going to be an unbelievable alternative to talent up and have a implausible expertise when you’re at it,” he says.
The bartenders who made it to the grand prize in 2023 have been required to do every part from a spritz service problem at By no means By no means’s model house to a coastal sensory problem whereas standing as much as their ankles in seawater. There was a martini pairing problem with one of many area’s finest eating places and a style check problem at certainly one of Adelaide’s most interesting cocktail institutions.
“The contestants are all the time guessing which Masterchef-themed problem we’ve chosen subsequent,” laughs Baxter. I’d be mendacity if I wasn’t just a little jealous of how a lot enjoyable all of it appears to be like when they’re in there going for it.”
MASTERCLASSES
There are additionally some masterclasses heading across the nation this month to get you in control and provide you with some tips about nailing the entry. Area is proscribed. Attain out to your Proof & Co. rep for extra.
- New South Wales: The Cumberland – 15.4.24 | PS40 – 16.4.24
- Queensland: Frog’s Hole Saloon – 17.4.24
- Victoria: Lola Belle – 22.4.24 | Yakimono – 23.4.24
If you wish to get entangled within the competitors or have any additional questions attain out to sean@neverneverdistilling.com.au
For extra details about the Step Into the By no means By no means cocktail competitors and for all stockists please go to our web site at https://neverneverdistilling.com.au/step-into-the-never-never-2024
