February 9, 2012
Michael Sanson
THE MAN: The readers of Portland Monthly named Jeffrey Morgenthaler the 2011 Bartender of the Year. It was he who first began to age cocktails in barrels.
When the so-called mixology movement began to percolate in a public way several years back, much of it involved bringing back Prohibition-era cocktails. But this reexamination eventually led to a great deal of innovation, some good, some bad, by ambitious bartenders who believed it was time to move the craft of cocktail-making into the 21st century. One of these successful, forward-thinking bar masters is Jeffrey Morgenthaler, who applies his trade at Clyde Common, a modern tavern/gastropub concept in Portland, OR.You May Also Like
