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ART AND CREATIVITY heard of this place so they checked out

Cocktail Professor’s motto is simple: their friend’s holiday photos, “It was
Be positive, creative and push to the like WOW, how beautiful is this? We
highest level. The brand specialises must go.” So they started contacting
in making tailored cocktail menus, people on the island, hoping to get a
training and branding for their job. And they did. Villa Camaella was
clients. Cocktail Professor is now a their first job offer by a prestigious
consultant to some very prestigious hotel and that brought the business
hotel and resort brands but it didn’t of Cocktail Professor to a whole new
start out like that. level. Within the same month, they
When they first started, they also received offers from W Hotel
tried to do cocktail events differently Doha and Bar Alchemy in Yangon
from others in Amsterdam. They with an extended job scope to not only
wanted it to be creative and cool. But create the cocktail menu but also train
people didn’t get that idea. Clients the bartenders.
would request to have Caiprinha and
would have to say “no” to a lot of job MOVING TO ASIA
Mojitos for their events and the pair
offers. They had to ask their clients to With all these job demands, the couple
consider letting them create something is finding themselves travelling more
different for their parties. to Asia. The 13-hour flight each way
was getting a little unbearable so they
NEXT LEVEL decided to find a place in Asia to call
home. They kept coming back to one
Soon word got out that there was place for the relaxing ambience and
this duo who would do specially friendly residents, watching over padi
crafted cocktails for parties. Cocktail fields to recharge for the next gig. It
Professor started to get offers from was Bali that captured the hearts of
big spirits brands. The two laughed these two art-centric entrepreneurs.
when they mentioned Hendrick’s, one They can now do more for the Asia
of their first big gigs, as they made a market and have taken up jobs with
drink with a flesh eating plant for the W Hotel Bali, W Retreat Koh Samui,
brand’s jungle themed party in 2014 and Coppersmith by Troika Sky
(Kanaracuni Hendrick’s Gin in Hortus Dining in Kuala Lumpur. Occasionally,
Botanicus). That obviously went well they travel to conduct refreshers for
as they continued to take up more bartenders they have trained before in
jobs from big brands like Stolichnaya, the resorts.
Licor 43, Glenmorangie, Nike, Esquire
and Nespresso.
Three and a half years later, the
brand started to venture into overseas
markets. Jarl and Teisje knew a friend WITHIN THE SAME MONTH,
Kanaracuni in Kuala Lumpur who told them about THEY ALSO RECEIVED OFFERS
Martini for his holiday in Boracay. They never
Hendrick’s Gin FROM W HOTEL DOHA AND
Jungle party in
Hortus Botanicus BAR ALCHEMY IN YANGON
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