EDITOR’S NOTE

Bar Fly India is a magazine brought to you The Blend, which is Beam Suntory’s pioneering global advocacy and bar community building initiative. Beam Suntory has been championing World Bartender Day since 2018 as a signature day to enthuse and celebrate the global bartending community. World Bartender Day 2023 is the perfect occasion for us to release the 2nd digital edition of Bar Fly India.

This year saw The Blend expand our World Bartender Day roadshows and celebrations to 9 cities in India, adding on Pune, Panjim, Chennai, Kolkata and Jaipur to NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad. Our roadshows (featured in this issue) covered subjects ranging from Ice, Sustainability and Bar Ergonomics to Thinking Beyond the Bar, from some of the top practitioners in this field.

With summer around the corner, it felt appropriate for us to spotlight Gin with a selection of diverse articles, from Beam Suntory India’s presence at Gin Explorer’s Club to exploring unique tea botanicals in Roku and looking at specialty gin bars in India.

30BestBarsIndia 2022 saw Sidecar and Santanu Chanda take home respectively the prizes for Jim Beam Best Independent Bar and Jim Beam Best Bartender. This issue of Bar Fly sees us interact with Minakshi Singh, partner in Sidecar and Santanu.

This issue also features articles and features from global editions of Bar Fly.

We hope that you will enjoy diving into every bit of what we’ve put together for you in our second edition. For us at The Blend, supporting and celebrating your journey at every stage of your career is at the core of all we do. And all that we will continue to do.

Happy reading!

Vikram Achanta Rohan Jelkie

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SPECIAL THANKS AND CREDIT TO:

Narelle McDonald, Director On Trade & Advocacy, International Region

Archita Khanna, India Events & Communications Senior Specialist, India

Meimi Sanchez, Senior Manager, The Blend, Global Hayley Morison, Trade Advocacy Manager, Australia

Robin Nance, Senior Trade Engagement manager, USA

Viktorija Lileiko, Senior Manager On Trade Engagement, Germany

Valentine Maguire, Design Manager, Australia

Ambre Morin, Digital Community Manager, The Blend

Fanny Hennequin, Advocacy Manager, Beam Suntory International Region EDITORS

Vikram Achanta

Rohan Jelkie CONTRIBUTORS

Anirudh Singhal

Anamika Singh

Bhavya Verma

Juan Jose Maillo Garrido

Shubham Shukla DESIGN

P Vel Kumar

Jim Beam Classic Highball

Contents

8 30 BEST BARS INDIA 2022 - JIM BEAM BEST BARTENDER - SANTANU CHANDA IN CONVERSATION WITH BHAVYA VERMA, BAR FLY

10 30 BEST BARS INDIA 2022 JIM BEAM BEST INDEPENDENT BAR - MINAKSHI SINGH, SIDECAR IN CONVERSATION WITH BHAVYA VERMA, BAR FLY

12 ROKU INDUSTRY ICON OF THE YEAR - ASIA’S 50 BEST BARS 2022 - COLIN CHIA

13 ROKU INDUSTRY ICON OF THE YEAR - NORTH AMERICA’S 50 BEST BARS 2022 - CHRISTINA VEIRA

14 BAR ERGONOMICS – ANIRUDH SINGHAL

16 GLIMPSES FROM WORLD BARTENDER DAY ROADSHOWS 2023

24 WHAT KIND OF WET - BRENDAN GREY

26 IN CONVERSATION - JARED BROWN AND ROHAN JELKIE

28 ROKU AT DRINKS FESTIVALS IN INDIA

30 GIN DRINKING CULTURE AROUND THE WORLD - JUAN JOSE MAILLO GARRIDO, SPAIN

32 GIN BARS IN INDIA - JYRAN, JUNIPER AND SYLVIA

35 ONE SHOT VS TWO SHOT DISTILLATION –EXPLAINED – SHUBHAM SHUKLA

36 ROKU GIN - THE INFLUENCE OF TEA –ANAMIKA SINGH

38 EE SERIES - WITH MONICA BERG AND ALEX KRATENA

40 10 FUN FACTS ABOUT JIM BEAM

42 THE HIGHBALL

44 INCREASE THE PEATS – DAN WOOLLEY

46 BARTENDER ADMIN - VIRTUAL COURSES ON THE BLEND WORLD - JOE SCHOFIELD

48 JIGGER AND PONY – INDIA TOUR

50 30BESTBARSINDIA 2022 – TOP 30 BARS

56 TALES OF THE COCKTAIL FOUNDATIONSPIRITED AWARDS – 2022

60 THE BLEND SCHOLARSHIP – WORLD’S 50 BEST BARS 2022

OF JIM BEAM 30 BEST BARS INDIA 2022