We catch up with Joe, one of our talented\u00a0cocktail bartenders, to speak about the private cocktail events he provides services for, and get hints &\u00a0tips for the perfect drinks for\u00a0a cocktail party at home.<\/p>\n
I go to a variety of events and enjoy every single one of them, however, I often mix cocktails at private parties in Edinburgh<\/strong><\/a> and\u00a0have recently been regularly hired for 40th birthday parties<\/a><\/strong>, and I find them awesome! I especially love the ones where people dress up, and let me tell you – some of them have very vivid imaginations!<\/p>\n Without mentioning trying to perfect my cocktail skills at each event, which I obviously enjoy, I think it’s the interacting and socialising with the guests that is the most important. You \u00a0can learn a set of skills like cocktail mixing, however it takes a certain kind of person to comfortably walk into a stranger\u2019s house, knowing that they’re in for an amazing laugh, and be able to leave as friends in the space of only a few hours. Keeping professional at all times… Obviously! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n As you can probably tell, I’m not that shy of a person, talk to anyone and everyone, got me into a lot of trouble with my mum! Anyone can learn to pull a good pint but it’s that little extra service, that little laugh with the customer, the capacity to remember what they specifically ordered last time amidst hundreds of others that makes the difference between a good bartender and a great one.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Visit\u00a0Social and Cocktail Events<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to find out how we can help you host your perfect party.<\/p>\n Before I was a barman I was a waiter, food running of all things! Always walking past the bar and wishing I could jump on for a shift, the atmosphere, laughs and ethic was completely different. I finally got a shift behind the bar and I was rubbish! The only thing I found I was good at was talking. But I soon learned how to pour a good-ish pint! Nothing too fancy! <\/span><\/p>\n After a few months however I was putting together the bar’s first cocktail menu, trying to get the 50+ Regulars to drink ‘bellinis’ instead of ‘best’. I’d say it was… a\u00a0moderate success! After that I left to go to university and I found a few shifts here and there in a couple of Glasgow bars. As soon as I got an offer from Social and Cocktail however I was interested. So much more interesting than constantly serving endless streams of guests, you actually get to know the clients at the event! <\/span><\/p>\n I think the first event I ever did with Social and Cocktail was up in a lodge in the north of Scotland, mixing drinks, having a laugh, what I thought would be a sort of usual affair. After only an hour however, and maybe under the effect of a couple of cocktails, one of the clients decided to bring down his collection of masks… Not cheap Halloween ones either, studio quality decorative faces!<\/p>\n Needless to say, it didn’t take us long before all of us, including myself were wearing latex masks of famous people… Nothing too kinky! I like to think of myself as quite an open minded guy but let me tell you, it’s pretty hard to keep cool shaking a Boston Glass full of liquid with one of those on, not to mention you can’t see what you’re even doing!<\/p>\n “I just wanted to say how brilliant Joe the bartender was last night. He was very professional and everyone had a ball.”<\/em><\/p>\n “The cocktails were excellent and the barman was very entertaining which made for all in all a brilliant night.”<\/em><\/p>\n Definitely the <\/span>Toblerone Martini<\/strong><\/a>, it’s always the final cocktail I like to make at the end of an event, it\u2019s like a liquid dessert to top the evening off. <\/span><\/p>\n I prefer <\/span>Daiquiris<\/a><\/strong> over anything if I’m quite honest, especially during the summer, something about the fresh fruit, not to mention the fair glug of rum. <\/span><\/p>\n The best cocktail bar I\u2019ve had a drink in was probably Livello in Newcastle, however to have a drink in regularly I’d have to say <\/span>Dragonfly<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in Edinburgh. Not a scratch on my little cocktail bar in a suitcase though!<\/span><\/p>\n Prices start from just \u00a327.50 per person and\u00a0include:<\/p>\n <\/p>\nWhat do you enjoy about working for Social and Cocktail Events?<\/h3>\n
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\nWhat our customers say about Joe?<\/h3>\n
What’s your favourite Cocktail to Make?<\/h3>\n
What’s your favourite Cocktail to drink?<\/h3>\n
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