MIXOLOGY BAR AWARDS 2016: The Short List Nominees
It may yet be a little early to start popping champagne corks, but there’s still plenty of reason to celebrate: The short list of MIXOLOGY BAR AWARDS 2016 finalists is now official! Now that we know the favorites, all we have to do is wait for the big finale in Berlin on October 5th. Congratulations to all the nominees!
Only a little more than three weeks to go now until the MIXOLOGY BAR AWARDS 2016 take the stage in the Grand Hyatt Hotel at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. For the crème de la crème of the bar scene pros in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the announcement of the short list signals the start of the homestretch for the German-speaking bar community’s “Oscars”.
The long road to the selection
The nine jury members have travelled a long road of discussions, meetings and protracted secret voting. Year after year, we are pleasantly astonished at the patience, expertise and serious approach the jury applies to this voluntary job. The jury members are Klaus St. Rainer, Attila Kiziltas, Yared Hagos, Stefan Gabányi, Erich Wassicek, Gerhard Kozbach-Tsai, Markus Blattner, Jvan Paszti and MIXOLOGY author Peter Eichhorn.
We are especially looking forward to the outcomes in the “Newcomer of the Year” contest and the new category, “New Bar of the Year”. With the newcomers Gönke Hansen, Sarah Deuss and Paola Labansat, this represents the first time that women outnumber the men among the five nominees.
And with newcomers also coming from lesser-known cities such as Bremen and Essen, we can see that outstanding young talents are also learning to master their craft outside of the more commonly acknowledged big-city cocktail centers. The New Bar nominees are also unequaled in their diversity.
With Berlin’s punch house Lost in Grub Street, the intimate Seven Swans & The Tiny Cup and René Soffner’s The Kinly cellar salon (both in Frankfurt), Stephan Hinz’s upscale Little Link bar and the Tales Bar in Zurich, we get a clear picture of the whole range of current trends in today’s high quality GSA bar culture.
Tickets coming up
The MIXOLOGY BAR AWARDS this October 5th will represent the ninth time we have held the awards, and the fourth time the ceremony has been held as part of a festive gala evening. Awards will go to exceptional bars, people and products in a total of 13 categories. Your host for the evening at the Grand Hyatt ballroom will be MIXOLOGY publisher Helmut Adam, and the ceremony will once again be presented by Irish bar expert Phil Duff alongside Hamburg-based bar operator Betty Kupsa. Tickets for the award ceremony are scheduled to go on sale on September 13, 2015 in the Cocktailian Online Shop.
The short list of nominees is below, as always presented simply in alphabetical order with no rating. We wish all the nominees the best of luck and we look forward to a magnificent celebration of bar culture!
Bar of the Year / Germany (presented by Prestige Selection by Pernod Ricard)
Boilerman, Hamburg
Immertreu, Berlin
Les Fleurs du Mal, Munich
Le Lion — Bar de Paris, Hamburg
Seiberts, Cologne
Bar of the Year, Austria (presented by Del Fabro)
Bar 67 im Hotel Post, Ischgl
Albertina Passage, Vienna
Eberts Bar, Vienna
Nightfly’s, Vienna
The Sign Lounge, Vienna
Bar of the Year, Switzerland (presented by Pussanga)
Hotel Rinvington & Sons, Zurich
Kronenhalle, Zurich
Les Trois Rois, Basel
Onyx Bar im Park Hyatt, Zurich
Widder Bar, Zurich
Hotelbar of the Year (presented by Champagne Gosset)
The Curtain Club im The Ritz Carlton, Berlin
Monkey Bar im 25hours Hotel, Berlin
Roomers, Frankfurt
Bar am Steinplatz, Berlin
Widder Bar, Zurich
New Bar of the Year (presented by Beluga Vodka)
Little Link, Cologne
Lost in Grub Street, Berlin
Kinly, Frankfurt
Seven Swans & The Tiny Cup, Frankfurt
Tales Bar, Zurich
Barteam of the Year (presented by Asbach)
Boilerman, Hamburg
Gekkos, Frankfurt
Le Lion — Bar de Paris, Hamburg
Roomers, Frankfurt
Schumann’s, Munich
Host of the Year (presented by Red Bull Cola)
Gabriel Daun, Gekkos, Frankfurt
Emanuele Ingusci, Barroom, Munich
Sven Riebel, Seven Swans & The Tiny Cup, Frankfurt
Alessandro Romano, Ona Mor, Cologne
Andreas Till, Pacific Times, Munich
Mixologist of the Year (presented by Sierra Tequila)
Gabriel Daun, Gekkos, Frankfurt
Stephan Hinz, Little Link, Cologne
Lukas Motejzik, Zephyr, Munich
Dietmar Petri, Les Fleurs du Mal, Munich
Volker Seibert, Seiberts, Cologne
Newcomer of the Year (presented by DeKuyper)
Stefan Bauer, Bar im Heuer, Vienna
Max Bergfried, Gin & Jagger, Essen
Sarah Deuss, Blauer Fasan, Bremen
Gönke Hansen, Onyx Bar, Zurich
Paola Labansat, Trific, Hamburg
Bar Menu of the Year (presented by Gin Mare)
Fairytale, Berlin
The Grand, Berlin
Little Link, Cologne
Lost in Grub Street, Berlin
Zephyr, Munich
Brand Ambassador of the Year (presented by Thomas Henry)
Christian Balke, Havana Club/Pernod Ricard
Karim Fadl, Bacardi & Bombay Sapphire
Axel Klubescheidt, Absolut Vodka/Pernod Ricard
Andreas Mühlböck, Blue Gin
Hasan Sivrikaya, Bacardi-Martini/Switzerland
Sales Representative of the Year (presented by Nespresso)
Adrian Baldino, Diageo
Sonja Erler, Sierra Madre
Bernhard Stadler, Diageo
Christoph Stocker, Pernod Ricard
René Tempel, Bacardi
Spirit of the Year (Bar Convent Berlin/Reed Exhibitions)
Ferdinand’s Quince
Hudson Baby Bourbon
Jinzu
Tanqueray Old Tom Gin
Translated by J. J. Collier.
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Foto: Photo via S. Liewehr