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Five Questions for the Bartender: Michael Bertrand
This is Michael Bertrand in a pink shirt. Click on the slideshow to watch him make a Fernet Branca-Maker’s Mark old fashioned with an ice ball.
Step 1: Carving the ice ball.
Ice ball complete.
The peeling of the orange.
Straining the OF into the glass. (Wait, how come we can’t see the orange peel?)
And there she is.
White City, Oregon native Michael Bertrand moved to Seattle at age 18. The plan was to study jazz percussion at Cornish College. I dropped out and now I hate jazz music says Bertrand, who started supporting himself through retail jobs. Evenings, he’d belly up at Flowers Restaurant and Bar in the U-District, where he discovered his l...
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