{"id":229,"date":"2024-03-15T00:19:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T23:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/misternegroni.be\/?p=229"},"modified":"2025-07-20T14:16:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T13:16:55","slug":"nikka-perfect-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/index.php\/nikka-perfect-serve\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikka Perfect Serve judging (Brussels)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every few years Japanse whisky brand <strong>Nikka Whisky<\/strong> hosts it&#8217;s <strong>Perfect Serve<\/strong> <strong>bartending competition<\/strong>. Yes, a bartending competition. Not just a cocktail competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This contest focusses more on hospitality rather than on the drinks made by the bartenders. Of course, tasty drinks are a big part of hospitality, but a good bartender is jack of many trades. Making people feel welcome and sending them home feeling good at the end of the evening is at least as important as serving nice cocktails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nikka hired me judge the participants on their hospitality skills. Together with co-judges <strong>Yen Pham<\/strong>&nbsp;(Yi Chan, Brussels) and&nbsp;<strong>Harouna Saou<\/strong>&nbsp;(Life is Beautiful, Brussel) I was asked to play out a couple of scenarios and see how the participants reacted on the situations. For example, as judges we needed to act out as 3 friends getting quite drunk, or as a couple on a first blind date while being disturbed by another guest at the bar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Little Red Rooster&#8217;s Bart Capoen<\/strong> won the competition with a well-balanced drink and impressive hospitality skills.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/misternegroni.be\/index.php\/competitions-awards\/\">More info about my competition services<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cases_nikka_body0.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-388\" srcset=\"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cases_nikka_body0.jpg 800w, http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cases_nikka_body0-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cases_nikka_body0-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cases_nikka_body1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-390\" srcset=\"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cases_nikka_body1.jpg 800w, http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cases_nikka_body1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cases_nikka_body1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cases_nikka_body2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-391\" srcset=\"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cases_nikka_body2.jpg 800w, http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cases_nikka_body2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cases_nikka_body2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is cases_nikka_body3.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-627\" srcset=\"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.jpeg 800w, http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanse premium whisky brand Nikka hired me to judge their Perfect Serve Competition. It&#8217;s a bartending competition that&#8217;s focussed on hospitality rather than on a single cocktail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[25,21,22,24,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}