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Issue 2023/24

New Bar Beverage offer now available

In the most comprehensive supplier directory for the retail and catering trade, 2,800 products and 990 brands are represented in the current edition. Barkeeper Gastronomes and beverage distributors can find products, brands and their manufacturers or general importers quickly, easily and without electronic aids.

BAR NEWSJune 20, 2023May 29, 2023

The Bar Beverage offer is revised annually and is published each May. The reference book can be ordered free of charge in the BAR NEWS Shop. Drinks and spirits overview The Swiss drinks and spirits overview ... Read more ...

Bartender International

Knud Scheibelt, Schwarz Weiss Bar, Stuttgart

I am originally from Mainz. After school, I started an apprenticeship in the hospitality industry in Freiburg, and after my studies and military service, I worked as a waitress in a business hotel in Mainz. At some point, my supervisor approached me and said, "Follow me to the bar, please." He told me that Andrea, the bartender, had just quit and so he showed me where to find the syrups, juices, spirits and all the recipes.

Daniel StaubJune 9, 2023May 28, 2023

It was in 2001: "Have fun, you are now our Barkeeper!" I tried to do the job as good as I could, but of course I didn't use jiggers or pourers, ... Read more ...

21. SWISS BAR AWARDS

Best bars and Barkeeper in Switzerland wanted!

After the 20th anniversary night of the Swiss Bar Awards last year, this year's award ceremony will once again be a get-together for the Swiss bar community. The Award Night will take place on October 25, 2023 at the Trafo Baden. The application phase is underway.

BAR NEWSMay 17, 2023

The presentation of the coveted trophies of the Swiss Bar Awards is the crowning glory for many bar players in each new year. The special thing about this award is its significance. It relates ... Read more ...

Optimistic mood

Market survey 2022/23

Once again this year, the Swiss trade magazine BAR NEWS asked key decision-makers in the Swiss beverage and spirits industry to take the pulse of the market.

BAR NEWSApril 3, 2023

After we were able to draw a quite positive picture last year after the completion of the Corona measures, this trend has continued. This conclusion can be drawn from the responses of the decision makers ... Read more ...

Show off your bartending skills!

Announcement SWISS COCKTAIL OPEN 2023

Do you mix the best cocktail in Switzerland? Send in your recipe now and take part in the SWISS COCKTAIL OPEN! If your bartending skills are the most convincing, there are exclusive prizes to be won!

BAR NEWSApril 2, 2023March 10, 2023

The deadline for entries to the SWISS COCKTAIL OPEN 2023 has passed. We thank you for the numerous entries. Do you mix the best cocktail in Switzerland? BAR NEWS is looking for the best cocktail ... Read more ...

Barchef and co-owner On the Rocks Bar, Wengen

10 Questions for Justin Andrew Ebert

After his training as a hotel manager and various stations in Bern (Department 66), Colorado and Utah, he has been bar manager and co-owner of On the Rocks Bar (formerly Rocks Bar) in Wengen since October 2021.

BAR NEWSMarch 6, 2023

Born in Heilbronn (DE), Justin Andrew Ebert spent his early years in the Bernese Oberland. At the age of five, he moved back to Germany, where he completed his school career. In order to become ... Read more ...

Final Nullpromille Trophy 2023

The best non-alcoholic cocktails 2023 are chosen

At the finals of the 12th Swiss Nullpromille Trophy at the Matte Distillery in Bern, the best non-alcoholic cocktail was stirred and much more shaken. The winners were Francois Bräuning from Zurich's Lenox Bar and Michael Duc from Thun's Atelier Classic Bar with the fancy and sparkling drinks "Back to the roots" and "Be Mango".

BAR NEWSFebruary 16, 2023February 14, 2023

In the midst of the Berner Matte quarter it went yesterday afternoon rather hochprozentig - zero percent! The trade magazine Bar News invited to the final of its already 12th Swiss Nullpromille Trophy. The established competition ... Read more ...

In search of clues

Whisk(e)y in cocktails

As the cocktail evolved from a local drinking culture across the pond to a global phenomenon, American Whiskey was in the right place at the right time. Is this the reason why it is still so rare to mix with Scotch or Irish whiskey?

BAR NEWSFebruary 20, 2023February 13, 2023

No drink comes closer to the original composition of spirits, sugar, bitters and water than the Old Fashioned. When the "Cock-Tail" first appeared in 1806 in a newspaper in the town of Hudson ... Read more...

Award at Swiss Bar Awards 2022

Gallery Boutique Bar is Best Newcomer Bar 2022

With the Galerie Boutique Bar, Thun is one attraction richer. During the pandemic, owner Gage Plecic set about realizing the bar on the Aarequai. Since last year, the bar is in operation, at the same time a gallery and architectural highlight in the city. Congratulations.

Mia BavandiJanuary 16, 2023

Actually, my favorite place has always been in front of the bar," says Gage Plecic during our visit to the Galerie Boutique Bar on Thun's Aarequai. The bar, which opened in May of ... Read more ...

A look into the beer glass

Porter and stout

Porter and stout - two beer styles whose differences are very small. A look at the history of these dark beers invented in Great Britain reveals why this is so.

Kaspar KellerDecember 13, 2022

The days are getting shorter, but the nights are getting longer. And because temperatures are dropping at the same time, refreshment is no longer the most important requirement for a beer. If porter and stout were a ... Read more ...