Courtney, aka the Traveling Cocktalian, goes around the country bartending and bar consulting. She talks about her love of the craft, interacting with her ‘guests’ (in her world they don’t call them ‘customers’), her home base in Kansas City, where she owns a house with her partner/not-quite-husband, and what kind of life she’s building toward in her ultimate bartending fantasy.
She shares some of her specific encounters with guests, her unusual living situation with her partner, with whom she has a nearly opposite work schedule, and how to turn people onto gin, even when they think they’ll never like it.