Japanese Bartending with Hidetsugu Ueno
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Join master Japanese bartender Hidetugu Ueno for a masterclass is Japanese bartending technique, including ice carving and the famous hard shake, plus discussion of the less talked about, but equally important, aspects of hospitality in Japanese bars.
Apologies for the inferior sound quality and occasional sudden jumps – Oh Gosh! TV is not tooled for long videos, but we tried to capture as much of Hidetsugu’s talk as was possible.
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July 15th, 2009 at 12:46 am
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July 15th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Great Video, I love the japanese way of bartending. It’s straight and complex at the same time.
July 16th, 2009 at 8:02 am
This guy is wicked, I love the video! Japan bars, here I come!
July 16th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
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July 20th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Jay,
Very informative presentation. I can totally relate to the idea of making cocktails with the mindset of a tea ceremony (sado). My daughter has taught tea ceremony and a lot of the aspects are similar. I would love to see more bars encourage their mixologists to craft the cocktail with respect and attention to detail. Unfortunately, when you’ve got a busy night, things like that tend to go out the door in favor of cranking out product.
In any case, what I came away with, is that ice is not only an important part of making drinks, but that other than correct ratios of ingredients, ice is probably more important tan most of us realized.
Cheers!
Blair
July 23rd, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Thanks for sharing that video. Ive been interested in cocktails since i was teenager . I worked as bartender few years , learned lots of cocktail recipes. Its a passion , way of life
I suggest you to watch the movie Cocktail with Tom Cruise , it would grab you and make you wanna learn to be part of that.
August 31st, 2009 at 8:00 am
Looking for the iPod version… when is it going to be out?
September 3rd, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Adam – Apologies had uploaded the iPod version but hadn’t added the link to the post. The iPod version of this episode should now show up in iTunes as normal (though it’ll probably be below some more recent episodes).
October 11th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Extremely interesting video! I found it interesting how he audits the cocktails before they are iced, so that he can still adjust it. I linked to this site while discussing that issue here:
http://www.donrockwell.com/index.php?showtopic=12481&pid=146202&st=0&#entry146202
November 15th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
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February 6th, 2010 at 6:52 pm
[...] and before long the subject of ice will come up. Double frozen cubes, cracked ice, crushed ice, ice carving, clear ice – we could literally go on for hours. One of the holy grails in ice is the [...]