About Speed Rack
Speed Rack is a competition created for and by female bartenders to promote female bartenders.
And, while we're at it, we're going to raise some money to fight breast cancer. 100% proceeds from the events we produce in each of our cities will go to breast cancer education, prevention and research.
Speed Rack is a national cocktail competition that features top female bartenders in key cocktail markets and puts them head to head in round robin style timed and judged challenges. It is the first competition to highlight the up and coming generation of strong women in the spirits industry.
Using sponsors' products, participating bartenders are required to make a round of cocktails selected at random, culled from a list of 50 accepted industry standard recipes, in front of a panel of industry celebrities including cocktail luminaries such as Dale DeGroff, Audrey Saunders, Julie Reiner and Charlotte Voisey. These judges select and then will judge each drink based on accuracy, taste and presentation. It is instant elimination for the women competing. Each round, head to head with 4 randomly selected drinks from our judges that they must make. After time and judging penalties, the swiftest and most skilled under pressure moves forward to the next round until our bracket is down to two. There is only 1 winner. This winner is flown to NYC for the Finals in May 2012.
Created and produced by Ivy Mix and Lynnette Marrero of LUPEC NYC, Speed Rack aims to create a pedestal for women from coast-to-coast in an engaging, fun and fast way through a round robin style speed competition.
Speed Rack is Coordinated by Claire Bertin-Lang of Proof ABV and filmed and photographed by Lush Life Productions.
Each local winner will receive a $500 honorarium courtesy of St-Germain to compete in the May 2012 Finals in NYC. The grand prize winner will be crowned Miss Speed Rack USA and receive an all inclusive trip for two to France, where they will enjoy the beauty of the Anjou region and take a tour of the Cointreau distillery and attend the Cointreau Bartender Academie, an educational and intricate program designed to enlighten the trade on the secrets and subtleties of the brand.
- The competition is created and produced by Ivy Mix and Lynnette Marrero of LUPEC NYC (Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails).
- 2011-2012 events are coordinated by Claire Bertin-Lang of ProofAbv.
- Video and Photography by Lush Life Productions.
- Proceeds from 2011-2012 events go to support breast cancer related charities.
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