When is World bartender day? 5 cocktails to celebrate World Bartender day

Bartending as a concept is essentially timeless. Arguably, as soon as people discovered fermentation and then later distilling, drinks were eventually poured by someone regardless of when or where the moniker originated. Records for the origins of fermented beverages and serving them locally around the world aren’t precisely canonized with the dawn of controlled fermentation reaching far back a few millennia, but the rise of spirits did make its way throughout the globe with the advance technology adapted from Arabic science’s art of distillation into the later 1600’s. Bartending profession origins are truly more aligned with the rise of spirits heading into the 1800’s as innkeepers began to serve more than just ale, wine and punch. Often touted as the world’s first bartender, Jerry Thomas rose to fame in the early to mid-1800’s and eventually published history’s first ever bartending guide in 1862, “How to Mix Drinks: a Bon-Vivant’s Companion.” So for modern terminology sake, the word bartending became popularized in America with the rise of these new types of bartenders who added more professionalism to the trade and concocted more intricate mixed drinks including cocktails.