#84 Jörg Meyer - Gin Basil Smash, 50 Best Bars, Le Lion, German Bar Scene

Podcast: The Curious Bartender Podcast · Tristan Stephenson

Opublikowano: 2026-06-29

Jörg Meyer is the founder of Le Lion — Bar de Paris in Hamburg, one of the most consistently recognised cocktail bars in the world and the birthplace of the Gin Basil Smash, a drink he created in 2008 that now accounts for upwards of 25,000 pours a year at Le Lion alone and has become one of the few genuine modern classics produced outside London and New York. In this episode we go deep on the full origin story of that drink: the Whiskey Smash he fell for at Pegu Club in New York, the G'Vine recipe booklet with a bas...