Fellow booze slinger Michael Neff (NYC bartender of Ward III fame) waxes poetic on the distinction between Bartenders and Mixologists and nails it.
“As much as I appreciate the current state of the spirits and cocktail game, I think we’ve taken the difference between bartender and mixologist too far. At the end of the day, they are impossible to separate. Bartenders tend bar. We make drinks. Sometimes, even in the dirtiest of dive bars, those drinks are cocktails. Thus a mixologist is born.”
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Read more about Mixologists v. Bartenders here and here.
I won’t be the first one to tell you that the “Mixologist” term is not one invented by the Bartending Intelligista but rather, it’s a moniker concocted by “leftist” marketing gurus and/or an army of anorexic foo-foo dudes with overgrown beards, an overabundance of arm tattoos, skinny black ties, golf hats, and Red Wings, who all happen to work/reside in Williamsburg/Greenpoint.
They are the children and disciples of the crusty, senile, Viagra-popping Upper East Side, co-op owning, libtards that sue municipalities and the Federal government to remove “God” from U.S. currency and The Pledge of Allegiance. The same set fights for “equality for all,” lobbying to remove restrictions barring a 105 pound sack of potatoes to join the Police force or Fire Department. They’ve conveniently unleashed (and forced us to swallow) other now mainstream psycho-babble phrases like:
- “Assault Rifle” > Any scary black gun with pistol grip or AK/AR “looking” rifle regardless of capabilities/features/uses
- “Homeless” > Bums and Hobos
- “Physically Challenged” > Handicapped
- “Overweight” > Fat
- “Termination of Pregnancy” > Abortion
