“it is important to
keep up with the curi-
ous attitude for
exploring different in-
gredients if you want
to create something
new and unique. “
that they have plans to build a tasting room in
the basement. Jakob jokes that he keeps there
his girlfriend so it would make sense to have
some other use for the basement as well. Mik-
kel and Jakob imagination to create excellent
cocktails goes even beyond their vision of the
interior of the Rusty Jigger. Both of them likes
to explore new ingredients. At the moment
they are developing a drink made of “karsi”
which has been really hip ingredient lately
in the food scene of Copenhagen. Sometimes
their experiments might go wrong like a cock-
tail with spinach, but it is important to keep
up with the curious attitude for exploring dif-
ferent ingredients if you want to create some-
thing new and unique. The Rusty Jigger col-
laborates with Shirleys Garden which allows
them an acces to fresh organic raw materials.
Mikkel does not see other cocktail bars in Co-
penhagen as a competitors. Everyone has their
own thing going and the people in the cocktails
scene happily recommends other places than
their own for guests if they see that it would
be better fit for them. When the atmosphere
between cocktail bars in Copenhagen is open
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