Dale DeGroff

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Dale DeGroff at the Tales of the Cocktail bar fair in New Orleans (2010).

Dale DeGroff (born September 21, 1948 in Rhode Island ) is an American bartender , non-fiction author and advisor to the bar and liquor industry . He became known while working in the New York bar Rainbow Room , where he rediscovered classic cocktail recipes in the late 1980s and subsequently became a pioneer for a quality-conscious bar culture based on historical models. Internationally it is also known as the “King Cocktail” and uses this name on its website.

Life

Dale DeGroff came to New York in 1969 at the age of 21 to become an actor. During his excursions through the bars and restaurants of the city he met the successful restaurateur Joseph Baum, who ran over 130 restaurants, bars and bars in New York and who in 1973 offered DeGroff a job as a waiter at Charley O’s in Rockefeller Center . This was followed by a six-year stay in Los Angeles as a bartender at the Hotel Bel-Air . After his return to New York DeGroff worked again for Baum and among other things developed new cocktail menus for several bars. In 1987 DeGroff accompanied the reopening of the legendary Rainbow Room , also one of Baum's bars. During his time in the Rainbow Room , classic recipes by Jerry Thomas and other bartenders from the pre- prohibition era were revived . DeGroff used as many fresh ingredients as possible, for example freshly squeezed citrus juices instead of the usual ready-made sour mix from the bottle. In the Rainbow Room, the Cosmopolitan developed into one of the most popular cocktails. DeGroff is no longer a bartender himself. He advises liquor companies and bars and organizes seminars for the bar and spirits industry. In 2004 he and some bartenders founded the Museum of the American Cocktail (MOTAC) in New Orleans , which deals with the topic of cocktails, spirits and bartending and currently under the umbrella of the nonprofit National Food & Beverage Foundation from permanent exhibitions in New Orleans and Los Angeles. His book The Craft of the Cocktail , published in 2002, is now considered a standard work. In 2012 he brought out a cocktail bitter with allspice flavor he had developed .

Publications

Web links

Commons : Dale DeGroff  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data ( memento of May 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) in the personal article of a British online shop.
  2. ^ The Museum of the American Cocktail. In: natfab.org. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME DeGroff, Dale
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American bartender, nonfiction writer, and bar and liquor industry advisor
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Rhode Island