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Blue Cocktails thursdays at MACBA

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Barmen of Barcelona shake the bar of the International.
The city’s best mixologist also want to join in the many acts that have been held recently in the legendary New York restaurant that Miralda and Montse Guillén have reproduced inside the Macba exhibition.

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At the end of October, the retrospective that the contemporary art museum of Barcelona has dedicated to the work that the artist produced in the United States opened its doors with the classic Blue Margarita. A cocktail that was born in the bar of this renowned restaurant which now the city’s mixologists want to pay homage.
For this reason, the next Thursday mixologists from Boadas, Caribbean Club, Fizz Bartenders, ESHOB school and Ideal Cocktail bar will offer an original blue cocktail with a tequila base created to pay tribute to the International universe.
The bartenders of the city will happily collaborate every “Thursday of Blue Cocktails”, once again, an event that celebrates the cocktails as an art of sharing ideas, experiences and culture.

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BLUE COCKTAILS THURSDAYS
MACBA – MIRALDA MADEINUSA
EL INTERNACIONAL BAR – 2nd floor
schedule 5 to 7:30 PM

Days:
Thursday 9 march – Escuela ESHOB (Students of the third TGM)
Thursday 16 march – Ideal Cocktail Bar (Josep Maria Gotarda)
Thursday 23 march – Caribbean Club (Juanjo Gonzalez)
Thursday 30 march – FIZZ Bartenders (Héctor Henche Vila)
Thursday 6 april – Boadas (Adal Marquez) – tribute to Maria Dolors Boadas

Merry Christmas from Ideal

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Last tuesday as every year we celebrated at Ideal the already classic, Ideal Cocktail’s Bar Christmas party. One more year we celebrated this season with the best cocktails and cava and besides that we had a fine selection of tapas and meals made specially for the ocasion. We hope you enjoyed the afternoon just as much as we did, here we leave you a selection of pictures, if you want to see the rest go to our facebook. Happy 2017 and as you know, we’ll wait for you at Ideal Cocktail Bar!

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Halloween at Ideal

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Halloween has come to Ideal! And to celebrate it until Monday we will be serving two very special cocktails created by ourselves.
The first one is a vey unique gintonic, here we leave you the recipe:

  • Gin Vones macerated with chestnut
  • Schweppes Tonic
  • A few drops of chestnut syrup
  • Licorice stick for garnish
  • Pumpkin strip for garnish
  • Roasted marshmallows

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And the second one:

  • Tequila
  • Pumpkin juice
  • Chestnut syrup
  • Ginger Syrup

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Take advantage of these days to enjoy these cocktails that will only be available until Monday!

Barcelona Rum Congress

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Last weekend took place the Barcelona Rum Congress, a congress dedicated to the industry and culture of this unique distillate.
The event was held at the Llotja de Mar in Barcelona and it brought together professionals from all walks of rum in a show full of content. Business, education and experience were the three main axes that structured this congress with all kinds of activities from conferences to exhibitions.
On the occasion of this event they created the Mixology Route , a route in which the 10 best cocktail bars in Barcelona collaborate with the creation of an exclusive cocktail made with rum, our proposal for this route was the Ideal Stormy, here we leave the recipe:

IDEAL STORMY

  • 3 cl de Flor de Caña 4 years Rum
  • 2 cl lime juice
  • 2 ds Bitter
  • 1,5 cl de homemade ginger syrup
  • 6 cl de Ginger Bier
  • Top de 3 cl de Punta Cana Rum
  • Garnish it with mint and dehydrated grapefruit

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Visiting the Cognac commune in France

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Cognac is a french commune located in the Charente department famous for being the origin of the brandy that names it. Last week Josep Mª Gotarda traveled to the area along with a team of barmans from different parts of Europe (from Stockholm to Paris and Spain in-between) to visit the most famous châteaux and to take part not only in the process of making the cognac but also to do some cognac tasting.

The first distillery they visited was the Merlet & Fils, the famous distillery Merlet has been operating since 1850 and it’s worldwide reknown for being the creator of the Merlet Cognac, Gotarda and his pals had the chance to visit the barrels where the cognac is aged, which are more than a hundred years old and are nowadays true relics, as well as the classical alembics and vineyards that surround the place. Moreover they could take part in a special cognac tasting organized by Luc Merlet, owner of the château.

Cognac region is not only famous by its brandy, it’s also known for having a wide range of oysters and the team was able to visit the Cognac & Cherac market where they could taste the different kinds of oysters they offer as well as other typical products of the area.

We leave you here a selection of pictures of the travel
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The Merlet château dates from 1850 and it’s the home of Luc Merlet, its owner, his family and right next to it there’s the whole factory where Merlet is created.

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Centenarian barrels and classic alembics are crucial for the making of this cognac

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The spanish team about to taste the different cognacs

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The wide offer of oysters at the Cognac & Cherac market

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Taking part in the vintage

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If you want to enjoy a good cognac after seeing all of this at Ideal we’ll be pleased to serve you the best one around.

The Vermouth Handbook

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Ester Bachs has published this year the Vermouth Guide, this little book tells the history of this drink and includes as well a lot of recipes to do with it. Additionaly it talks about us as one of the pioneering bars in working with vermouth in the mixology world, it also has a foreword by the reknown chef Carme Ruscalleda and a compilation of the best cocktail bars where you can enjoy a good vermouth.
If you want to know how to prepare an Amber, a Triple XXX or a Platinum cocktail run to the nearest bookstore and get yourselves a copy, you won’t regret it!

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PDT at Ideal Cocktail Bar

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This week we had the pleasure to meet Adam Schmidt and Jeff Bell, the barmans of New York’s reknown Please Don’t Tell cocktail bar. All along this month Adam and Jeff will be settled in Barcelona and they have decided to establish themselves at the Banker’s Bank, the Hotel Mandarin Oriental bar.

Esta semana tenemos el placer de haber tenido de invitados en Ideal a los barmans Adam Schmidt y Jeff Bell de la célebre coctelería neoyorquina Please Don’t Tell, durante este mes de septiembre Adam y Jeff se han instalado en Barcelona y lo han hecho en el Banker’s Bank, la coctelería del hotel Mandarin Oriental.
To complete the experience Please Do not Tell in Barcelona, the cocktails will be complemented with a selection of hot dogs done by Joan Roca, Carme Ruscalleda, Albert Adrià, Angel Leon and Gaston Acurio to accompany the drinks. This is not the first time Please Do not Tell leaves New York, always adapting its culinary offerings to the host country, Paris, Tokyo, Melbourne and Hong Kong have been the cities that have hosted the ‘pop up’ of PDT in the past and now we can enjoy it right here for a limited time, don’t miss it!

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Ideal in Le Shaker

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Le Shaker magazine has reviewed us in their last number of June, Ideal Cocktail Bar can be find inside the report of Barcelona’s best cocktail bars along with other great bars of the city, besides the review we talk to them about our very own Ideal Cocktail, here we leave you the extracts of the magazine and the recipe for the Ideal Cocktail.

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Ideal Cocktail

Ingredients

  • 5cl of White Mezcal from Ágave Espadín
    1/4 of orange
    2cl of cinnamon and chile syrup
    3.5cl of strawberry purée
    2cl of lime juice

    • Elaboration
    Put in a shaker the chopped orange and pestle it, after that add the rest of the ingredients with quite a lot of ice. It will be served shaked in an individual jar with enough crushed ice. To decorate put a piece of pink grapefruit and a piece of papaya, both of them dehydrated.

    Ideal Master Class

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    Last 20th of May we had the pleasure of directing a masterclass for the Girona’s School of Hostelry students. The masterclass was conducted by our barmans Manel Roldán and Sergi Sánchez and it consisted of teaching the students the elaborations of some classic cocktails as well as the history of such cocktails. We leave you here a selection of photos from the class and the history of the origins of the classic Manhattan cocktail.
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    The Manhattans cocktail Origins

    The mother of Winston Churchill is credited with its invention in the New York City’s Manhattan Club, which was before the Empire State Building was actually build, the day celebrating the election of his friend, Samuel Jones Tilden, as governor of New York. Lady Randolph Churchill (Jennie Jerome) was born in Broooklyn and was a woman of remarkable beauty, with a very intense and hectic life: he married three times and had a significant influence on the political career of his son. He died after falling over a ladder because of some high heels that were quite unsuitable for walking.
    In the book Valentine’s Manual of New York (1923), the bartender of New York’s Hofftman House mentions a man named “Black”, the supposedly owner of a gambling den on Broadway, as its inventor.
    Another story, according to an article in a journal of Winconsin, puts its creation in 1899 on a ship that sailed the Mississippi River. Colonel Joe Walker, who was traveling with friends from New York, mixed whiskey and vermouth, which were the only drinks they had, and came to New Orleans, and once perfected the mix, he named it “Manhattan” in honor their friends.

    Divine Barcelona

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    Last week we were featured in Barcelona Divina magazine. We were in a top 5 of the best cocktail bars of Barcelona which were challenged to create de “Barcelona Divina’s Cocktail”. Our barman Manel was inspired by the uniqueness and explosiveness of this city to create his cocktail Barcelona Divina, in it he mixed the citric of oranges and limes, the sweetness of cinnamon and strawberries and the final touch was the adding of a spicy chile all of that mixed in Mezcal. Manel defined it like:

    “This is a refreshing cocktail, fruity, with smokey and spicy details and with a slightly peppery final touch”.

    Here we leave you the ingredients as well as the elaboration if you want to try it at home!

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    Ingredients

    • 5cl of White Mezcal from Ágave Espadín
    • 1/4 of orange
    • 2cl of cinnamon and chile syrup
    • 3.5cl of strawberry purée
    • 2cl of lime juice

    Elaboration
    Put in a shaker the chopped orange and pestle it, after that add the rest of the ingredients with quite a lot of ice. It will be served shaked in an individual jar with enough crushed ice. To decorate put a piece of pink grapefruit and a piece of papaya, both of them dehydrated.