Chivas Regal has crowned Tropic City's mixologist, Arron Grendon the 2018 Chivas Masters Global Champion. The five-day final returned to Chivas’ roots at the Strathisla distillery in Speyside, the home of Chivas, before culminating at Oval Space in London, where Arron demonstrated exceptional leadership and collaboration to overcome immense competition from the world’s best bartending talent and lead his team to victory. Arron impressed the expert panel of judges throughout the five days and the final challenge saw him working alongside a team of six bartenders to establish their own sustainable pop-up cocktail bar and menu to excite the senses of their most important judge—the everyday public—with their community-inspired cocktails.
Starting off as a Food & Beverage trainee at a hotel in Phuket, Arron fell in love with hospitality and the passion showcased by the bartenders he worked alongside. This led him to do a month of training in the bar and he has been in love with bartending ever since. His winning signature serving, The Grind, means to push oneself to work harder and to achieve one’s goals. It was inspired by his mother and the stories she used to tell about how hard the farmers in Thailand would have to work to provide rice and food for people to eat.
Chivas Masters Global Final