After winning this year’s Bols Around the World competition, Rusty Cerven (pictured) of the Connaught Bar at London’s Connaught Hotel has embarked on a tour that took him to New Orleans for Tales of the Cocktail in July and this month to the Milan Bar Show and Bar Convent in Berlin. Here, he reports on …

After winning the crown at this year’s Bols Around the World competition, Rusty Cerven has embarked on a once-in-a-lifetime trip beginning with a visit to New Orleans to experience Tales of the Cocktail first-hand. In this travelogue, Rusty details his time in New Orleans and the exciting five days in one of the cocktail capitals …