July 16-Juliet and Romeo

You might have seen this cocktail before if you are at all interested in cocktail youtube as this is a very popular video topic for many a creator. This is also possibly the magnum opus of cocktails for the bartender Tobey Maloney of the Violet Hour in Chicago. This bar is responsible for another one of my favourite cocktails being the Art of Choke. This isn possibly the most popular cocktail at the bar and Maloney even used this very drink as a case study on how to create cocktails in his 2022 book, The Bartender’s Manifesto.

The Juliet and Romeo is as Maloney puts ‘ a southside with a little something extra’. This is a methodology I love to invokle when it comes to me creating cocktails. Take a classic and change it just enough so it’s your own thing. It’s deceptively brilliant and the easiest way to create your own drink. I highly recommend getting The Bartender’s Maniffesto if you don’t have it already.

Full judging here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JyLVnFsGgKsK6vp3lyH0qxhoSqXJdBvWWCPPkSivzoA/edit?tab=t.0 .