But having gotten a taste for all things cocktail, I ended up competing just a few weeks after my initial course with EBS. If someone had told me three years ago I would enter a cocktail competition, I would have just laughed. Looking back, I can say I’ve done something I didn’t think I could ever do. The only difference was that the faces kept changing, which made a shift a lot of fun. Having instructors barking orders at you in quick succession really is very similar to the works of a real bar. I had to work so much faster.This is the point where my training at EBS really kicked in as I was intimately familiar with using both my hands at unrelated tasks and just “knew” my cocktails. Working in a busy nightclub is very different compared to the lobby bar. I had done some occasional gigs in other clubs around Turku, but Showroom was my first real nightclub job. You’ll kill your tips!Īfter Börs, I started working in a nightclub called “The Showroom”. And while all beginnings are hard (“Hey! Do you know why Hemingway Daiquiri has no sugar in it? No? Well, because he was diabetic! You don’t what? You don’t care? Oh… Okay then…”) I caught on quickly and learned who wants to be left alone and who’s aching for a conversation.Also, never interrupt a Fin with a little small talk if she/he is doing something important like staring out of a window.
#NAKED BARTENDER HOW TO#
So handicapped as I was, I really had to learn how to chitchat. When we are naked in sauna (yes, we can be naked with strangers but we don’t talk to them) some very brave individual might ask to put on a little more heat. If you talk to a stranger in a bus, you will be labelled a “freak”. You know, us Fins don’t chitchat with each other. While working in Börs, I also learned the Art of chitchatting.
#NAKED BARTENDER PLUS#
Customers in aninternational environment can be demanding, but I pretty much knew what I was doing, which whisky is the smokiest and what liqueur tasted like anise, plus everything in between. My first fulltime job as a bartender was in a lobby bar of a busy business hotel called the Börs. Fortunately I learned from the best, as I had several shifts at the pool parties hosted at EBS under my belt.At the events where I worked, we usually had a very limited range of spirits to work with, whereas at EBS we learned what the different spirits tasted like, so I knew how to replace one spirit with the other. They didn’t understand how much the pirate money was worth, and therefore gave waaaaaay much more tip than they probably intended to! Not complaining though… Anyway, while working at such different events each night, I had to be able to adapt quickly. It was fun though, we got tipped ridiculously, because the customers had to change their money into “pirate money”. Sweat takes on a new meaning when you’ve been working 13 hours straight in a humid Pirate Bar next to the hot tubs, surrounded by thousands of techno fanatics on their wild side. Once the Caribia hosted a huge rave in the pool section, which actually got to the news for being such an insane party with too much nudity, alcohol and other substances. They hosted different events, everything from Samba festivals to Stand-up Comedy Clubs. I got all types of different gigs, usually in a hotel/spa Caribia. My first bartending job was for a staff-leasing company. I learned everything I needed to know about the industry from EBS, and I was ready to be part of the biggest family in Turku, the bartenders. I had absolutely zero experience in the bartending industry before EBS, but since then I have found myself shaking cocktails in many clubs around Turku. After graduating from the European Bartender School in Phuket, a little over two years ago, I’ve had the chance to work in many different places serving thirsty people their liquid happiness.
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