Rapping Bartender

Ian Burrell has been a well-known face on the London bar scene for over 10 years. As well as being a “mixologist” and managing cocktail bars across London since 1991,he also managed to find time to present a couple of TV shows, play professional basketball, sing and song write for Hollywood movies and most importantly to become a “Rum Ambassador”, travelling around the world teaching about the wonders of rum appreciation. His restaurant and cocktail bar, “Cottons”, boasts the largest collection of rums in London and he has personally tasted them all. Being of Jamaican decent, rum has always been in Ian’s blood. In fact he is quoted in saying that his first rum experience was ‘when he was 4 days old and his mother put a little bit on his lips to help him to sleep’. A master “Edu-tainer”, he educates and entertains while delivering rum and rum cocktail seminars to a growing cocktail culture. With his own style, Ian is always smiling and enjoying himself because as he says, “Life’s too short”, and there’s a lot of rum out there to drink…