"Bar Month" at OnMilwaukee.com is back for another round! The whole month of February, we're serving up intoxicatingly fun articles on bars and clubs -- including guides, the latest trends, bartender profiles and more. Grab a designated driver and dive in!
Well, not you. Unless, of course, you're one of the 10 Milwaukee bartenders competing in tonight's Bartender Olympics at Whiskey Bar, 778 N. Jefferson St.
People tell me I'm too judgmental, anyway, so this should be right in my wheel house.
But seriously, this is going to be a fun event, and I hope you'll join me. It's free and it runs until about 10 p.m. I judged last year, too, and with our friends Kramp, Adler and Jen Lada on board, and Cecilia Gilbert (the City's "Queen" of all things Downtown) I expect lots of laughs. My colleague, Molly Snyder, is keeping score.
Just check out these four categories: the Pabst can stack, the talent competition, a timed drink order competition and a recipe contest.
Bartenders include Pete Marshall (Milwaukee Brat House), Alisha Olson (Jo Cats), Danny Benavante (Bel Air Cantina), Nikki Fountaine (Brewski's), Shenna Barrette (Blackthorn Pib), Nicky Rev (Cafe Lulu), Joe Vella (Paulie's Pub), Scott Sloan (Kenadee's) and returning champ Matty Gonzales (Sabbatic).
Hope to see you tonight!
Andy is the president, publisher and founder of OnMilwaukee. He returned to Milwaukee in 1996 after living on the East Coast for nine years, where he wrote for The Dallas Morning News Washington Bureau and worked in the White House Office of Communications. He was also Associate Editor of The GW Hatchet, his college newspaper at The George Washington University.
Before launching OnMilwaukee.com in 1998 at age 23, he worked in public relations for two Milwaukee firms, most of the time daydreaming about starting his own publication.
Hobbies include running when he finds the time, fixing the rust on his '75 MGB, mowing the lawn at his cottage in the Northwoods, and making an annual pilgrimage to Phoenix for Brewers Spring Training.
