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American hip hop star Snoop Dogg helped break the record for the world’s biggest gin and juice cocktail.

The west coast rapper’s single, Gin and Juice, inspired the record attempt, which took place at the BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival in California.

The finished cocktail contained 315 litres of gin, 156 litres of apricot brandy, 106 litres of orange juice and was finished off with a giant paper straw and an entire watermelon as a garnish.

Yochen Verbeeck from Belgium has been named the winner of the second edition of the Glassology by Libbey design contest.

Verbeeck triumphed at the final in Amsterdam this week, which saw competing bartenders serve signature cocktails in their glassware.

Verbeeck’s winning design, called The Gatsby, was inspired by the roaring 1920’s and the work of F Scott Fitzgerald. It will now be put into production by the American glassware brand. 

World-renowned Paris speakeasy Little Red Door was in London this week hosting a guest bartending series at Horatio Street Social.

The French bar team took over the London venue to serve up drinks from its latest menu, called Universal Values.

Drinks served on the night included the Benevolence, which is made from Altos Tequila, carrot and ginger shrub, Martini Ambrato and a mixed peppercorn syrup, the “fresh yet savoury cocktail” is served in a crushed ceramic plastic cup.

UK-based startup Change Please, which trains homeless people to become baristas, walked away with US$350,000 at the final of this year’s Chivas Venture.

Cemal Ezel, founder of Change Please, said: “I’m so happy – I think I’m still in shock. It’s been a hard and long journey, but to have made 26 incredible new friends from all over the world, that’s been the real highlight for me.”

Change Please takes the homeless off the streets and ensures they find housing within 10 days, as well as providing bank accounts and jobs paying the London Living Wage.

The Campbeltown Malts Festival took place this week and as part of the festivities independent distillery Glen Scotia opened its doors to the public.

Visitors to the Campbeltown distillery were treated to samples of the Glen Scotia 25 Year Old Single Malt, as well as the Glen Scotia 2000 Single Cask, which was unveiled at the festival for the first time.

The distillery hosted a number of other events over the course of the festival, including dunnage tastings, distillery tours and cooperage demonstrations.

To mark the attraction’s 30th anniversary, the Scotch Whisky Experience in Edinburgh hosted pupils from the Royal Mile Primary School as they hid a commemorative time capsule in the attic.

The Scotch Whisky Experience building, at the top of the Royal Mile, was previously Castlehill Primary School, so the primary one pupils contributed a unique piece of work to the time capsule to memorialise what life is like at school today.

Encased in a whisky barrel, it will also contain a photo of the 90-strong team and a celebratory message in an empty whisky bottle.

As part of the first Tel Aviv Cocktail Week, Tequila brand Patrón took its Perfectionist cocktail competition winners to Israel to host a number of events.

Tel Aviv Cocktail Week itself was founded by previous Israeli Patrón Perfectionist winner, Omer Gazit, who was at the event alongside fellow Patrón Perfectionists winners, including Greg Almeida of the Rosewood’s Scarfes Bar in London.

SB donned its stetson this week and headed down to the opening of London’s newest immersive cocktail bar, Moonshine Saloon.

The new bar is a wild west-themed saloon where drinkers must smuggle their own spirits past the sheriff and into the bar.

On the opening night of Moonshine Saloon, assembled guests were treated to cocktails created with Colonsay Gin and Duppy Share Rum, as well as card games and entertainment from the saloon’s “regulars”.

Blended malt whisky brand Monkey Shoulder took its mammoth cocktail shaker to the Foodies Festival in London this week.

The Monkey Mixer is an 11,000-litre cocktail shaker made from a “pimped out cement mixer truck” and will be touring festivals and events around the UK.

Furthermore, The Monkey Mixer is kitted out with a DJ booth and sound system, and also features a retractable bar.

The Churchill Bar & Terrace this week opened its nautical-themed summer terrace.

Complete with nautical-inspired cocktails, each influenced by Winston Churchill’s love of the sea, the summer terrace will be open throughout the summer season.

Cocktails on the menu include Ocean Bottle, which is made from Oxley gin, gunpowder syrup and lemon Juice. 

The Gin Journey this week launched its first international outpost with its new visitor experience in Singapore.

Gin Journey has been teaching Brits about the history of gin for a while now, and this week launched its first experience in Singapore.

The tours in Singapore will take guests on an exploration of gin, where they will sample cocktails in some of the world’s best bars.

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