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"Every time someone won, there was huge applause and no booing-everyone was so supportive,"
Britsky recalls. "The ones that won were the ones that
should've won."
Despite new outlets and other changes, one element has remained stable: Britsky's enthusiasm for
the local scene.
The Detroit cocktail scene is "kind of under the
radar," he says. "When we send off bartenders to national competitions, I don't think that people initially
look at them as threats. Then, all of a sudden, [Detroit
bartenders] win, and people are like, 'What just happened?'"
As an example, he points to Alex Kirles, who became brand ambassador for House of Angostura.
"We're definitely under radar, but that's changing.
We have so many craft bars, and they're starting to
specialize," in agave products such as tequila and
mezcal, rum, sherry and bourbon. "Just watching it
grow over the last six years has been great ... It's just
fun."
If you're just learning about Nick Drinks, no worries. You can catch up and keep up on NickDrinks.
com, on the Nick Drinks YouTube channel, on Facebook and Instagram @NickDrinksDotCom, and on
Twitter @NBritsky.

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