Speed Rack Bartending

Speed rack is an exclusively woman high speed bartending competition designed to highlight up and coming self identifying females in the cocktail industry and give back to those impacted by breast cancer.

Speed rack bartending. Speed rack has raised 1 000 000 to date. Regional competitions whittle down the applicant pool with 20 mixologists in each market vying for one of sixteen slots that will make it to the nationals. The speed rack a bottle width steel shelf is located under the bar at about knee height for easy access. As always the competition in speed rack season 9 promises to be fierce but so does the fundraising.

Speed rack taps top female bartenders across the globe and puts them head to head in timed challenges. In their first year speed rack met over 400 bartenders across the country and raised 250 000. Denver will mark the fourth stop on the tour for speed rack s ninth season it came through the mile high city last year as well as 24 local ladies will go head to head. In 2011 mix approached marrero who was the president of the new york city chapter of lupec ladies united for the preservation of endangered cocktails about creating a competition to showcase talented women in the craft cocktail world.

Having commonly used bottles in the speed rack allows the bartender to make drinks more efficiently. In and out of the spirits industry. In most bars i ve seen the well brands reside in the speed rack also called a speed rail or speed well. The idea was to create a cocktail competition for the ladies one that celebrated women was created by women and supported women.

They were all there for speed rack an international bartending competition that pits some of the world s best female bartenders against one another to make classic cocktails as fast as they can. To date speed rack has raised 1 000 000 to date for charities supporting breast cancer research. It s usually at the level of the bartender s thigh near the ice well. Founded nine years ago speed rack is an international competition by and for female bartenders and 100 percent of the ticket sales go toward breast cancer research awareness and prevention.

As always the competition in speed rack season 9 promises to be fierce but so does the fundraising. You can raise a glass and raise up the women in your community at the speed bartending bonanza coming to denver on february 17.