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Interview with Trevor Kallies

August 14th, 2011 admin

Trevor Kallies | Donnelly Group | Vancouver

Trevor Kallies is the Bar & Beverage Director for the Donnelly Group in Vancouver, he has been mixing drinks at The Granville Room for the past 6 years as well as beverage training all the bartenders at the Donnelly Pubs and Night Clubs.

What drew you to bartending?

An accident, I was studying in English Lit in university, my friend got me into bartending after university. I then worked at Earls for 5 years as a bartender and then worked at the Granville Room.

What goes into creating a new cocktail? What inspires you?

The spirit – play around with different tastes and flavours, ie gin & lime or gin & lemon, work outward from spirit, start with the garnish and work backwards.

What was your training like?

Earls trained how to serve, then I was self-taught as bartending.

Tell our readers where you have worked in the past 10 years?

Earls for the 5 years and then The Granville Room for the past 6 years.

Who are your mentors?

1)    Jay Jones – for inspiration

2)    Simon Ogden (Uncle cocktail) in Victoria

3)    Brad Stanton at Hawksworth

4)    The Bartending Community –share, give opinions and help each other.

Tell us about The Granville Room, what type of drinks do you showcase?

Classics, modern classics and contemporary house spirits.

What is your Favourite Drink right now?

Negroni

If you weren’t a bartender, what would you be doing?

Probably would be a teacher. Now I am teaching my staff about cocktails, prohibition etc

Is the cocktail program at each Donnelly place the same?

There are three different concepts at Donnelly:

1)    Pub cocktail list – more fun and less intense

2)    Night Club –entry level, easy to make, light, fruity, refreshing style

3)    The Granville Room – stand-alone list here, Brown spirits focus over clear spirits, modern classics (gives full credit to other bartenders around the world and their amazing cocktails).

How do Vancouver cocktail competitions compare with the USA?

We covet a lot of the drinks that New Orleans, Seattle, New York, Boston and Atlanta do in those cities.

By: Richard Wolak

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Trevor Kallies Cocktails

August 4th, 2011 admin

Trevor Kallies is the Bar & Beverage Director for the Donnelly Group in Vancouver, he has been mixing drinks at The Granville Room for the past 6 years as well as beverage training all the bartenders at the Donnelly Pubs and Night Clubs. He was previously a Bartender with Earls for 5 years. Trevor has developed an extensive cocktail list.

I asked Trevor to create a couple of his signature cocktails at The Granville Room, here they are along with the ingredients and preparation.

First off is his Tequila Old Fashioned made with El Jimador Reposado.

Trevor making his Tequila Old Fashioned

Ingredients

2 muddled organge peels

1 bar spoon of brown sugar

3 dashes Abostura Bitters

2 oz El Jimador Reposado

 

1)    Fill the glass halfway with ice, add all the ingredients then give a good stir until all the sugar has dissolved.

2)    Strain and serve

3)    Garnish with an orange peel.

Tequila Old Fashioned

For the second drink I asked him to make another cocktail using different spirits, he chose the Nucky Thompson.

Trevor making his Nucky Thompson

Ingredients

2oz Beefeater 24 Gin

½ oz Honey syrup

½ oz Green Chartruse

Squeeze of Orange

 

1)    Put all ingredients in a mixing glass

2)    Stir until chilled

3)    Garnished with an Orange Squeeze

Nucky Thompson

The Granville Room is located at 957 Granville Street in Vancouver.

By: Richard Wolak

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Appleton Rum Cocktail Competition

June 14th, 2011 admin

Trevor Kallies of The Granville Room - 1st place Winner

On Sunday May 29th the Fairmont Pacific Rim Lobby Bar played host to the Appleton Rum Mixologist Competition that saw 17 of Vancouver’s finest bartenders compete in a black box style competition. After 3+ hours of intense competition, Trevor Kallies took first place and he won an all expense paid trip to Jamaica!

Dani Tartarin of the Keefer Bar - 2nd Place Winner

Joel Virginillo of Market in the Shangri-La Hotel - 3rd Place Winner

Second place winner was Dani Tartarin of the Keefer Bar and Third place was Joel Virginillo of Market in the Shangri-La Hotel.

Here are some of the other competitors mixing their drinks.

David Wolowidnyk of West Restaurant

Arthur Wynne of the Cascade Room

Jason Browne of Calabash Bistro

There were 17 competitors and all of them tops in their field representing restaurants and bars in Vancouver. It was a pleasure for me to watch this competition and to see the drinks these bartenders were creating.

By: Richard Wolak

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Bartender: Trevor Kallies

August 21st, 2009 admin
Trevor Kallies - The Granville Room in Vancouver

Trevor Kallies - The Granville Room in Vancouver

Trevor Kallies is the bartender at the Granville Room on Granville in downtown Vancouver. On August 17th he competed in the Whistler Brewing Mixologist Competition held at The Refinery.

His featured drink was called “Citrusly Speaking”.

Ingredients:

2 thick slice orange peel (some flesh)

2 thick slice lemon peel (some flesh)

2oz Beefeater 24 gin

3 dash The Bitter Truth’s Beefeater 24 bitters

1/4oz simple syrup

Whistler Brewing Company’s Weissbier

Sugar


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The Refinery Hosted the Mixologists …..

August 18th, 2009 admin

Canada’s First Ever Beer Inspired Mixology Competition was held on Monday August 17th and it was a celebration of the best bartenders in the Vancouver and Victoria areas preparing cocktails that had one or more of the Whistler Brewing Co beers as the main ingredient. Here is a photo collage of the mixing, cheering and fun from the competition:

Soloman Seigel - Soloman's in Victoria

Soloman Seigel - Soloman's in Victoria

Trevor Kallies – Granville Room in Vancouver

Trevor Kallies – Granville Room in Vancouver

Sarah - Diva at the Met in Vancouver

Sarah - Diva at the Met in Vancouver

Fellow bartenders, industry supporters .....

Fellow bartenders, industry supporters .....

Brad Johnson - Pivo/Lux in Vancouver

Brad Johnson - Pivo/Lux in Vancouver

Danielle Tatarin - DB Bistro in Vancouver

Danielle Tatarin - DB Bistro in Vancouver

Photo credit: Richard Wolak

By: Richard Wolak

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