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After three years of rotating COVID breakouts, quarantines and lockdowns around the world, peaking in China with a long zero-COVID era that only ended in December, this is the first year since 2019 when we can breathe a bit easier.
Things are starting to come together for the 9th annual World Baijiu Day, with confirmed partners in cities as distant at Christchurch, Boston, Stockholm, Shenzhen, Melbourne, Toronto, Hamburg and Guangzhou…
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Baijiu is the planet’s most popular spirit, with some 20 billion bottles produced each year, but is little-known beyond China.
World Baijiu Day aims to change that by partnering with bars, restaurants, consumers and producers in dozen of cities each August 9. (See the 2020 event list here….
The eighth annual World Baijiu Day has started in some parts of the planet! There are dozens of happenings happening across the globe, from Boston to Beijing to Buenos Aires, from Singapore to Sydney to Shenzhen. Check out the details at the main events list here. And also keep up to date via our Instagram and Facebook accounts. Have a good one, everybody!
The eighth annual World Baijiu Day has started in some parts of the planet! There are dozens of happenings happening across the globe, from Boston to Beijing to Buenos Aires, from Singapore to Sydney to Shenzhen. Check out the details at the main events list here. And also keep up to date via our Instagram and Facebook accounts. Have a good one, everybody!
Bastien Ciocca is co-founder with Andrew Ho of Hope & Sesame, which counts two bars of that name in Guangzhou and Shenzhen. The company’s brands include baijiu-centric SanYou bars in both cities as well as Charlie’s, The August and more, including loads of consulting gigs. I asked Ciocca about Sanyou, including the newly opened Shenzhen branch, his favorite baijiu cocktails, why drinks made with this spirit aren’t more…
Bastien Ciocca is co-founder with Andrew Ho of Hope & Sesame, which counts two bars of that name in Guangzhou and Shenzhen. The company’s brands include baijiu-centric SanYou bars in both cities as well as Charlie’s, The August and more, including loads of consulting gigs. I asked Ciocca about Sanyou, including the newly opened Shenzhen branch, his favorite baijiu cocktails, why drinks made with this spirit aren’t more…
Ashley Mac is bar manager at Chinese restaurant NiHao, which has a strong focus on baijiu cocktails. In this Q&8, Mac discusses her first baijiu experiences, strategies for using different baijiu styles in cocktails, consumer reactions and NiHao’s plans to celebrate World Baijiu Day in Baltimore. Check out NiHao here on Facebook and here on Instagram.
Ashley Mac is bar manager at Chinese restaurant NiHao, which has a strong focus on baijiu cocktails. In this Q&8, Mac discusses her first baijiu experiences, strategies for using different baijiu styles in cocktails, consumer reactions and NiHao’s plans to celebrate World Baijiu Day in Baltimore. Check out NiHao here on Facebook and here on Instagram.
Baijiu-inspired ice cream and gelato has been a part of World Baijiu Day since the start in 2015, from the baijiulato made by Lu Spirits and Stikki Nikki in Stockholm to the byejoe ice cream at Tipsy Dessert Bar in Houston to the deep-fried baijiu ice cream at The Brickyard in Beijing.
This year, Shenzhen gelato specialists Cream Story will feature no fewer than five baijiu-inspired gelatos…
Baijiu-inspired ice cream and gelato has been a part of World Baijiu Day since the start in 2015, from the baijiulato made by Lu Spirits and Stikki Nikki in Stockholm to the byejoe ice cream at Tipsy Dessert Bar in Houston to the deep-fried baijiu ice cream at The Brickyard in Beijing.
This year, Shenzhen gelato specialists Cream Story will feature no fewer than five baijiu-inspired gelatos…
