As bartenders, you cannot miss one of the most important organisation in the field: the I.B.A. (International Bartending Association), founded in Torquay (U.K.) in 1951. The founding members were 8 delegates representing their bartending national guilds, who agreed on the desirability to set up an international organisation in order to represent the best bartenders in the world. The countries originally involved were the U.K. (with two members), Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland. Now the I.B.A. is composed of 64 countries around the world. Every year the I.B.A. issues an official cocktail list, including three categories: the Unforgettable, the Contemporary Classic and the New Era. These lists include classics, famous cocktails and new inventions: one must say that this is the bible of the good bartender, a professional in the field who never ceases to learn and improve, in order to guarantee his/her customers the best experience possible. Furthermore, there is no higher recognition for a bartender than having one of his/her brand new experimentations mentioned in the I.B.A. official website or prized through one of their recognitions!
HOMEWORK - Read the IBA 2020 cocktail lists and prepare an oral presentation of 10 cocktails at your choice (don't forget to include those you are studying in your bartending lessons!). Send the recording to the teacher through your google classroom. - Watch the video recipes on The Bonneville Cocktail Collection YouTube Channel: pay particular attention to the whiskey, gin, rum, vodka, tequila&mezcal lists. You will be tested on the vocabulary included in the videos.