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Article: Peter Ross At Large: The man with the moves to take bartending to the Olympics
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- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- August 31, 2008
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DAVID Monaghan is a young man with a lot of bottle. A lot of
vodka bottles and a lot of Malibu bottles, to be precise, as these
are what he uses in his incredible routines. At 23, Monaghan is the
four times Scottish flair bartending champion. For those who don't
know what flair bartending is, it's what Tom Cruise does in Cocktail
- mixing drinks in an extremely flamboyant manner, flipping and
spinning the bottles, glasses and shaker.
Now, you could argue that this is pointless, that drink should be
served with minimal faffing about. But that argument would cut no
ice with Monaghan, a South African living in Glasgow, the best city
in Scotland for flair. Asked why he does this, he gives the ...
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