{"id":348356,"date":"2026-09-16T14:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T14:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348356\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T14:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T14:42:15","slug":"11-local-bartenders-face-off-to-pour-the-best-guinness-in-central-new-york-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348356\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Local Bartenders Face Off to Pour the Best Guinness in Central New York | Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"11 Local Bartenders Face Off to Pour the Best Guinness in Central New York\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6aaa0844a9bc7.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>UTICA, N.Y. &#8212; Bartenders from across Central New York showed off their Guinness-pouring skills in a spirited competition.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven local bartenders competed in the final round of the fifth annual Best Guinness Pour competition at Five Points Public House and Events Center on Columbia Street in Utica.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s event featured the theme \u201cPints for Puppies,\u201d with funds raised going to Anita\u2019s Stevens Swan Humane Society, the Herkimer County Humane Society and the Rome Humane Society.<\/p>\n<p>Participants were judged by a panel of celebrity judges on their ability to pour three different drinks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bartenders have to pour three different drinks. They have to pour a perfect pint, they have to pour a perfect half-n-half, and they have to pour a shamrock. They have to etch a shamrock in the Guinness,\u201d Patrick Kealy, chairman for the Best Guinness Pour in Central New York, said.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Kingsley from The Bunker won this year\u2019s Best Guinness Pour, while second place went to Carter Klumbach, also from The Bunker.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Bartenders from across Central New York showed off their Guinness-pouring skills in a spirited competition.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UTICA, N.Y. &#8212; Bartenders from across Central New York showed off their Guinness-pouring skills in a spirited competition.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[610,9,11,10,27],"class_list":["post-348356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-local","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}