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World Whiskey Day celebrated in Nairobi


Renowned Global Luxury Malt Ambassador, Georgie Bell, was in Nairobi this weekend to mark the World Whiskey Day.

The Nairobi News caught up with her on Saturday Kengeles bar and restaurant where she was wowing revelers with her mixology skills.

“I moved to Edinburgh to study. My parents said to me ‘don’t get a job in a bar,’ I got a job in a bar and I fell in love with the spirits industry through cocktails. For me, it was all about making people’s evenings through cocktails. I really loved bartending, but I knew I wasn’t good enough to make a career out of it,” Ms Bell recalled how she started out.

Each year, Ms Bell travels around the world and teaches people a thing or two about whiskey.

DIFFERENT CULTURES

“I spend nine months a year traveling around the world to educate people about whiskey and Nairobi is the first place I have set foot on in Africa. I’m glad it was Kenya,” said Bell.

Bell, who loves travelling and exploring different cultures around the world, is on a mission to get people drinking whiskey the right way and educate them about whiskey.

“It’s not about being exclusive or prescriptive. You can drink it however you enjoy it – ice, water, mixer – whatever works for you,” she says.

EABL Reserve Commercial Manager Charles Weru said taking whisky has become the new statement of affluence in Nairobi and that it is irrefutable fact that the craze is all about the expensive single malts.

World Whisky Day was first celebrated in 2012 and falls on the third Saturday of May each year.