Warren Bobrow, Freelance Mixologist

Warren Bobrow is a freelance mixologist specializing in Craft Spirits. He has developed bar programs and implemented their cocktail and ice programs. Warren served as master mixologist for several brands of liquor, including the Busted Barrel rum produced by New Jersey’s first licensed distillery since Prohibition. Bobrow was born in Morristown, New Jersey, and raised in Morris Township. He attended Westmont Montessori School and Gill St. Bernard’s School before graduating from Morristown-Beard School in 1980. Bobrow then completed his bachelor’s degree in communications and film at Emerson College in Boston Massachusetts in 1985. He worked as a dishwasher/pot scrubber at York Harbor, Maine, and as a television engineer at both WNET-13, NYC, and WPIX-11, NYC also as a videotape editor and cameraman. He later moved to Portland, Maine, and worked for Maine Public Broadcasting-TV and Radio, the former Portland, Maine PBS station. Warren is currently a Cannabis Alchemist, presently working on the periphery of the known and unknown universe between craft spirits and the cannabis industry.

Bobrow has published six books on mixology and written articles for Saveur magazine, Voda magazine, Forbes Magazine, Whole Foods-Dark Rye, Distiller, Beverage Media, DrinkupNY, and many other periodicals. He has written for SoFAB Magazine at the Southern Food and Beverage Museum and has written restaurant reviews for New Jersey Monthly. He has also contributed to the Sage Encyclopedia of Food Issues and the Oxford Encyclopedia edition named Savoring Gotham: A Food Lover’s Companion to New York City. Warren taught a Master Class on untouched rum at the Moscow (Russia) Bar Show Warren was a Ministry of Rum Judge in 2010 Warren was a Rum XP Guest Judge at the Miami Rum Fest in 2017 Warren traveled to Asheville, NC to participate in their unique Cocktail Week. Warren attends Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans and was nominated for a Spirited Award. Warren was in the Saveur Magazine “100” in 2010. Warren presented at the Berlin Bar Convent in 2019 Warren currently writes for Skunk Magazine and Cannabis Cactus Magazine He presented at SXSW in 2018 on Cannabis Cocktails- the topic of his fourth book of six in print.