Cocktails are about a return to fun
Live Mint"Cocktail culture is exploding globally. It’s all about a return to fun,” says Jenna Ba, sipping coffee on the fringes of the recent World Class Cocktail Festival and Bartender of the Year Awards that saw 50 mixologists from across the world taking part in a three-day “cocktail Olympics”, navigating intricate instructions to create complex drinks from a set of spirits assigned by Diageo’s World Class team. She has also worked at The Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai, made a cocktail using leftover gulab jamun syrup and Talisker single malt, and learnt how to make the perfect jaljeera from a vendor in Mumbai’s Dadar market. Making whisky fun: The “sacrilege to mix anything with a single malt” kind of attitude is out, says Ba. “Whisky always had gatekeepers who were judgemental about who drinks whisky, where and how but much of that is changing, with a new generation of mixologists who are not scared to play around with whisky,” says Ba, pointing to Indian bars like Whiskey Samba, in Gurugram, Haryana.
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