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Philip Duff interviews Sven Almenning about his journey in the Australian cocktail bar scene and the intricacies of bar management.

What can you say about the extravagantly-bearded Norwegian Sven Almenning, who at one stage owned the world's largest bar agency, based in Sydney, running best-in-class bartender engagement programs at scale, and has since morphed into a tycoon of the Australian cocktail bar scene, with 8 or so top-notch venues in Sydney, Melbourne and the like? Well, quite a lot it seems! We talked about savant vibes master Max Greco (quite a bit, in fact), what it takes to create a great bar now in Australi...

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