Evo-lution Bar Consultancy

Evo-lution is a bar consultancy, training and mobile event bar hire company based in the oil capital of Europe, Aberdeen, Scotland.

Set-up in 2006 and run by leading UK bartender Adam Elmegirab, Evo-lution provides a full range of consultancy and training services for the drinks industry as well as offering professional bartenders for a variety of corporate and private events where mobile bar hire is required.

The aim of Evo-lution is simple; to help evolve the standard and standing of bars and bartenders across the globe and assist in changing the public's attitude toward bartending as a profession.

With over a decade's worth of experience in the trade, Adam's knowledge and expertise has been called upon at various levels and it was this demand which helped him decide to set up Evo-lution Bar Consultancy, the first of its kind in Aberdeen.

Adam has burst onto the wider scale to be acknowledged as one of the bright stars of the UK bartending scene. This is recognised in achievements which includes;

• Cask Roadshow Scottish Final 2011 (3rd place)
• Funkin Fusion UK Final 2011 (2nd place)
• Tapatio Cocktail Competition Scottish Final 2011 (2nd place)
• Imbibe Magazine UK Bar Personality of the Year 2011 (nominee)
• Glenfiddich Malt Mastermind UK Final 2010 (2nd place)
• SLTN Scottish Mixologist of the Year 2010 (2nd place)
• CLASS Magazine UK Bartender of the Year 2010 (3rd place)
• Drambuie UK National Final 2010 (Winner)
• Drambuie UK Regional Final 2010 (Winner)
• Grand Marnier UK Bartender of the Year 2006 (Finalist)
• BOLS Advocaat/Barbore Cocktail Competition 2006 (Winner)
• Bacardi Oro Cocktail Competition 2006 (Winner)
• IP Bartender's Drink of the Week 2006
• IP Bartender's Drink of the Week 2005
• Selected to feature as one of the founder bartenders in the inaugural Bacardi La Legacia Cocktail Book 2008 and the subsequent volumes in 2009, 2010 and 2011
• The first Scottish bartender to feature as Mixologist of the Month on TheDrinkShop.com
• Judge at numerous competitions for the likes of Diageo, Moet Hennessy and Pernod Ricard
• Contributor to industry magazines such as Theme, MUDL, CLASS and Imbibe
• Expert speaker at industry shows such as Distil and Boutique Barshow

Experience is key to staying ahead in this industry and Adam has it in abundance having worked in, consulted and trained at numerous award-winning venues, won a variety of cocktail competitions at local and national level, having his own drinks creations featured on menus worldwide, worked alongside a number of brands, set-up bars at events starting from a handful of guests running into the hundreds, and now having built and achieved global success with his own brand - Dr. Adam Elmegirab's Bitters.

Evo-lution's impressive and diverse client list includes Yatai, Orchid, Dusk, Hamilton Rose, Oceanteam, Dundee University, RGU Union, Woodbank House, Ninety-Nine Bar & Kitchen, Mim Lounge, Fitnut, ACCA Global, GE, Technip, Shell, BP, WTR, Carmelite Hotel, Norwood Hall Hotel, Ardoe House Hotel, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Thorpe Molloy, Diageo, Pernod Ricard, Moet Hennessy, CLASS magazine, Bacardi Brown Forman, Glenfiddich, Hel's Angels and many more...

Adam has added another string to his bow under the guise 'Dr. Adam Elmegirab's Bitters' and now compounds a reformulation of the classic Boker's Bitters an entirely unique product Dandelion & Burdock Bitters and Limited Edition Spanish Bitters. For further information please visit his bitters website or Dr. Adam Elmegirab's Bitters on Facebook.

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