Making coffee and cocktails go perfectly together

The Irish Coffee cocktail.

Bartenders and baristas have a lot more in common than you think. Although bartenders usually deal with alcoholic drinks while baristas deal mostly with coffee, both jobs require a keen sense of taste, a refined palate, and a willingness to learn all about flavours, ingredients and making a balanced drink.

According to coffee cocktails specialist Martin Hudák, both baristas and bartenders have a lot to learn from one another, and he sees it as his job to try and bridge that gap between the two.