day 2 john whyte course venice 2011

8/2/2019 Day 2 John Whyte Course Venice 2011

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2nd day 10/04/11

0930-1230 Classic Drinks by Mauro Mahjoub & Jorge Soratti

1330-1530 The Mexican Experiance-Tequila by Dom Costa

1530-1900 The Art Of Mixing Drinks. Dom Costa

Extreme and in detail bar guidelines this guy Mauro has the biggest collection of Bar books in theworld and also owns Negroni club.his speech to us about the history of cocktail was very interesting

but i found that it was and extreme overload of information i was having a headache.

4000BC The word alcohol was derived from the word AL KOOL the arabs started distillation in

search for something for the eyes of the women.by arab alchemist jabir ans razi .

Ancient babylon Hippocrates uses alcohol to treat his patients.(460-377BC)

1760BC King Hammurabi

made the first rules of the bar

no fake goodsno complot against king

theses were amongst some of the rules

27BC-476AD Romans made taverns in pompeii

Mixtarus -a vase that the roman use to shake or mix their wine(the first written history of shakers)

The word bar comes from the french word barrier .(as there is always a barrier between the

bartender and the customer example the bar counter)

The term bartender first appeared around 1830

1835 use of ice

1871 early cocktail shakers

1888-1893 jiss

The first ice machine was created in 1855 in austria by james harisson.

1630 Taverns appear in america

women refused entry into drinking establishments

1840 Oxford night cap from oxford university 1827 first bibliography

1876 The Bar-Tender's Guide: How to Mix Drinks.First bar book Jerry P Thomas(usa)1879 American & other DrinksLeo Engel the first european bar book

1882 1900 Harry Johnson Bartenders Manual Harry Johnson

1884 150km north of san francisco martinez the birth place of martini

1904 "Louis' Mixed Drinks" Louis muckenstum

1906 Frank newton

Cocktails were a seperate catergory the were drinks consumed between apertifs and digestifs. But

now they are all under the same category.were a seperate category a before 11pm drink.

Carrie Nation, the anti alcohol activities became widly know with the slogan

All nations welcome but Carrie she brought the temperance movement to the attention of thenation.( she dies after Axeing 37 saloons)i really mean Axeing with an axe.


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Al capone and the mafia, The founder of las vegas saw the up coming opportunity when the

government was on the progress of prohibition,

When the prohibition era started the mafia made millions of dollars running speak easy bars and

moon shine.


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All of Mauros gazzette or marketting tools are made in a certain fashion that is intertwined with

history the gazzette is the actual size of the first gazzette that the defination of the word cocktail

appeared in the world.


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Mauro asked two question who ever answered it will get the much prized menu from his club i was

one of the lucky two. Hurayyyy...(This will be a present for David Chan)

That is the actual menu of Mauro's Negroni club.

Notice how detail every article is truly nostalgic.


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A cocktail is a simulating liquor composed of spirits of any kind, sugar , water and bitters valgarly

called a bittered sling.


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Carrie Nation's the anti alcohol figure as the hachet-weilding Nation,who would enter saloons and

smash liquor containers and other paraphernlia.I am preety sure she died a virgin.


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salute


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All this information was getting real heavy for my head.slight head ache and guess what time it was

only 1230 and we are going for lunch .

After lunch we had the history about tequila,pulqueh, mezcal.

The gusano caterpillar is the legendary worm that many believe that has medicinal properties but

actually it was just clever marketing.

Jimador,the farmers who look after the agave.(they train to cut the plant fast as they are paid per

plant if it was by the hour they will take thier time-makes sense)

Pences, the sharp leaves of the fruit.

Coa de jima,the shovel like tool is used to cut the pences off the fruit..

Pine cubiza,the fruit

Is the agave edible? Nope . Unedible as it is very hard.

Aquamiel,honey water after fermentation it is called musto

1st distillation ordinary 2nd distilled tequila.

Mezcal is fermented agave fruit pulque after distillation it is called mezcal.

Two category of tequila 51% mixto and 100%agave.

Mixto is bad tequila as it is not pure the other 49% is the reason behind the headache or bad

after taste of drinking tequila.

Maturity of tequila.

Blanco 60days most

joven abocado young and smooth ,blanco with added caramel.

Reposado 2month to 1 yr

anejo atleast 3yrs

Extra anejo,(just made in 2006)more then 3yrs.

Highland los altos sweet.

lowlands tequila spicy.

Agave nectar.


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Funny Mr costa with the wrestler mask hehehe.According to him the Mexican wrestlers rock!!

By this time i was slightly dizzy and before the day was over another test then we called it a nite.

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