Maybee wins Angostura bitters North American Cocktail Challenge
At some point they’re going to need a bigger trophy case at Manifesto. Owner and bartender Ryan Maybee was one of three winners at the Angostura bitters North American Cocktail Challenge, held on Tuesday, October 11, in Chicago (see video of the competition here).
The prize is an all expenses paid trip to Trinidad in February to represent North America (and Kansas City) in the 2012 Angostura Global Cocktail Challenge, where Maybee will be recreating the two drinks that propelled him to victory in Chicago. Fat City caught up with him by telephone to learn more about what it was like for the organizer of the Greater Kansas City Bartending Challenge to find himself on the other side of the judges’ table.
