Creating alternatives for aspiring bartenders
After two vastly profitable editions, the 50 Greatest Bars Scholarship has returned in 2024 in partnership with Roku Gin.
Open to any aspiring bartenders over 21 with beneath 5 years’ skilled expertise, the 50 Greatest Bars Roku Scholarship is providing a once-in-a-lifetime, all-expenses paid alternative to coach at three world-leading bars and attend the awards ceremony in Madrid this October.
The winner, who can be revealed at The World’s 50 Greatest Bars 2024 awards ceremony of The Worlds’s 50 Greatest Bars 2024 in Madrid on twenty second October, will embark on an instructional journey at famed Australian bar Perhaps Sammy in Sydney (No.15 in The World’s 50 Greatest Bars 2023) alongside a stage in Japan, the place the winner can be taught conventional Japanese-style bartending at Tokyo establishment Excessive 5, adopted by a up to date masterclass at Asia’s 50 Greatest Bars high-flyer Virtù.
What is required for the applying?
– Your basic particulars
– What you suppose the 5 expertise for a contemporary bartender are (5 key phrases)
– A brief written assertion on what you suppose may be achieved by the hospitality business to create a extra sustainable, inclusive and constructive affect on the sector (as much as 250 phrases)
– A brief video speaking about ‘Future Optimistic’ concepts: any improvements, small or giant, that you just suppose would make a constructive affect on the way forward for the bar business (as much as 60 seconds)
– A number of pictures of your self behind the bar or making cocktails (three to 5)
Future Optimistic
The theme of the 50 Greatest Bars Roku Scholarship for 2024 is ‘Future Optimistic’, encouraging bartending practices and attitudes that can have a constructive affect on the planet. Bartenders can be rewarded for his or her low-waste or native method to substances and push for larger variety, higher illustration and stability throughout the office. Scholarship candidates wanted to point out a readiness to contribute to this outlook.
The choice course of
The scholarship recipient is chosen through a three-stage judging course of:
Spherical One: Candidates had been requested to introduce themselves and share their imaginative and prescient of ‘Future Optimistic’ and what it meant to them as a bartender in a brief video, in addition to answering some questions on their profession thus far.
Spherical Two: The shortlisted candidates designed a drink, impressed by the ‘Future Optimistic’ theme, that heroes one native ingredient. The design required proof of the analysis, improvement and artistic course of.
These submissions will then be judged by a world panel of specialists, comprised of Philip Bischoff from BKK Social Membership (No.13 in The World’s 50 Greatest Bars 2023), North America’s 50 Greatest Bars Roku Business Icon Award 2024 winner Claudia Cabrera of Kaito del Valle and James Bowker, World Advocacy Supervisor for Home of Suntory. Collectively, they are going to determine on a five-strong checklist of candidates to advance to the ultimate interview stage.
Spherical Three: Chosen candidates had been invited for an interview with representatives from 50 Greatest, Roku Gin, the Sustainable Restaurant Assocation and upcoming stage hostsStefano Catino of Perhaps Sammy, Keith Motsi of Virtù and Hidetsugu Ueno of Excessive 5.
Examine the earlier winners, Drew Fleming and Apoorva Kohli, right here.
Purposes for this yr’s scholarship are NOW OPEN till 12:00BST on Friday, twenty first June 2024.
Apply now right here.
