The Live Naked Bar Swap
The Live Naked Bar Swap is annual competition that brings together some of the world’s best bartenders for a unique exploration of cultures, creativity and cocktails…
Scroll down for more info on the competition, our fabulous winners and their 'unconventional' winning Naked Sours 👇
THE COMPETITION 🍹
To challenge bartenders’ creativity, they’ll be asked to create a cocktail from the ingredients provided in a Mystery Box at the competition finale.
THE EVENT 🎟️
This liberating out-of-bar experience helps participants leave the pressures of everyday life behind, inspiring them to enjoy the spirit of freedom and ultimately Live Naked.
THE PRIZE 🏆
This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity allows bartenders to expand their knowledge, build new relationships, learn new skills and discover new ingredients, flavours and techniques 🤓.
The Winners: 2022 🥇
United Kingdom
Bar Humbug (Joanne Cadwell & Pablo Charles Chaundy-Brain)
United Kingdom
In the UK, bartenders Joanne Caldwell and Pablo Charles from Bar Humbug in Bristol took the prize with their winning cocktail the Bah Crumble.
Ingredients:
50ml Naked Malt Whiskey,
20ml Lemon Juice,
20ml Cider syrup (Bristol Cider and light muscavado sugar reduced over heat),
1 Egg White,
3 dashes Tonka bean bitters,
Garnished with - Edible Banksy stamp and Crumble truffle*
*Butter, icing sugar and Naked malt, coated in custard cream and cinnamon crumb
Taiwan
Cuckoo Bar (Yan-Ling, Chen & Yu-Hsuan, Tsai)
Taiwan
The 2022 winners for Taiwan were Yan-Ling, Chen and Yu-Hsuan, Tsai from Tainan City's Cuckoo Bar with their cocktail creation The Naked Feast.
Ingredients:
40ml Naked Malt,
Daylily flower-buds flavoured whisky (Dried daylily 10g, Naked Malt 100ml, sous vide for 15 min at 70°C),
Grape leaves sour mix (Fresh grape leaves 50g, Water 1500g, Oolong tea 7g, Lemon acid 3g, sugar 5g),
Dried daylily 20g,
Water 450ml,
Gelatin 3g,
Fresh lemon juice,
Simple syrup,
Garnished with - Daylily flavored foam topping
The Nordics
Ruby (Alessandro Rossi Vladislav Bobar)
The Nordics
The winning cocktail in the Nordics was Small Connections, served up by bartenders Alessandro Rossi and Vladislav Bobar from Ruby in Copenhagen.
Ingredients:
40ml Naked Malt,
20ml Whey,
15ml Mushroom danica,
15ml black apple honey,
5ml blackberry vinegar,
5ml apple skin
THE WINNERS: 2021🥇
In the UK, Panda & Sons (Sean Cavanagh) from Edinburgh scooped the national title. From the Nordics, A Bar Called Gemma (Johan Evers & Oscar Drigoris) reigned supreme, and in South Korea it was Villa Records (Yeongjun Jo & Hyundo Cho). Stealing the crown in the US was Morgan Zuch & Liz Senyak from Mandarin Heights and, last but not least, from Taiwan - Vender (Darren Lim & Summer Chen) was deemed the champion.
