Post #266610 by KuKuAhu on Tue, Nov 14, 2006 9:17 AM

Flair... hmph.

Here's the thing with flair bartending:

Cocktails are akin to food. They are consumable like food, and so they should taste good. This means that bartending is akin to cooking.

Cocktails are akin to wine and beer. They are beverages that require craft in order to be palatable. This means that bartending is akin to wine making and beer brewing.

Now with that said, I can conceive of no circumstance under which I would prefer a meal that tastes like shit on account of the chef spending all of his time practicing juggling a steak.

Nor can I imagine any situation where I would order a bottle of wine that is of poor quality due to the maker's obsession with twirling bunches of grapes overriding his ability to produce good vino.

And so on...

If one can explain to me in what way drill team antics are essential to the quality of what goes in my glass, then I will concede that flair is anything more than juggling with bartending props.

Until this happens though, I will state that flair and bartending are different realms, and that the latter is populated wholly by Tom Cruise fanboys who for some reason became obsessed with that horrid film Cocktail.

Can't pour a good drink? Then go juggle for the circus. And no, you cannot learn to be a good bartender in a month. I urge you to try though.

Ahu

Fraternal Order of Moai

[ Edited by: KuKuAhu 2006-11-14 09:18 ]