- Title: Hotel in Bangkok breaks Guinness World Record for largest Negroni cocktail
- Date: 13th September 2022
- Summary: BANGKOK, THAILAND (SEPTEMBER 12, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF GENERAL MANAGER OF KIMPTON MAA-LAI BANGKOK HOTEL, PATRICK BOTH, POURING FINAL NEGRONI MIXTURE INTO LARGE CONTAINER REPLICATING NEGRONI COCKTAIL GLASS STAFF CLOSING OFF CONTAINER LID GUINNESS WORLD RECORD ADJUDICATOR, KAZUYOSHI KIRIMURA HAVING FINAL INSPECTION ON LARGE REPLICA OF NEGRONI COCKTAIL WRITINGS READING (English): "OFFICIAL ATTEMPT" KIRIMURA ANNOUNCING ON STAGE (English): "THE RECORD TO BEAT IS 504 LITRES. AND THE FINAL RESULT IS, 633.65 LITRES! CONGATULATIONS, YOU'RE OFFICIALLY AMAZING!" / AUDIO OF AUDIENCES SCREAMING LARGEST NEGRONI / WRITINGS READING (English): "OFFICIAL ATTEMPT" IN BACKGROUND VARIOUS OF BOTH AND KIRIMURA HOLDING GUINESS WORLD RECORD FRAME (SOUNDBITE) (English) GENERAL MANAGER OF KIMPTON MAA-LAI BANGKOK HOTEL, PATRICK BOTH, SAYING: "Oh, fantastic. I mean, look, it's long time in the planning and, again, as I said on stage already - we thought, ok, you're going to mix a really big cocktail. But once it's gonna come to the Guinness of World Record, that is really not the case. It's a lot of rules and regulations that you need to admit (adhere) and we are really, really proud that we are able to do it." ICE SCULPTURE ARTISTS LIFTING BLOCK OF ICE ONTO PLATFORM VARIOUS OF ICE SCULPTURE ARTISTS CARVING LARGE REPLICA OF NEGRONI COCKTAIL GLASS HOTEL STAFFS AND ICE SCULPTURE ARTISTS PUSHING LARGE ACRYLIC CONTAINER WEIGHING 300 KILOGRAM ONTO ICE FOUNDATION CHIZEL SHAVING NOOKS AND CRANNIES OF ICE BLOCK VARIOUS OF HOTEL STAFF PUMPING NEGRONI MIXTURE FROM BARRELS INTO LARGE CONTAINER (SOUNDBITE) (English) GUINNESS WORLD RECORD ADJUDICATOR, KAZUYOSHI KIRIMURA, SAYING: "So, one of the most focal parts of this record is that they actually have to have three ingredients - gin, Campari and Vermouth - and they also have to scaled version of the (normal size) glass. So, those two are the most focal parts of this record." NEGRONI FILLING UP ACRYLIC CONTAINER SURROUNDED BY ICE BLOCKS (SOUNDBITE) (English) GUINNESS WORLD RECORD ADJUDICATOR, KAZUYOSHI KIRIMURA, SAYING: "So, the record, the previous record was 504 litres and today the record, the result was 633.65 litres. REPORTER: SO DOES THIS MEAN THAT THIS IS NOW THE WORLD'S LARGEST NEGRONI? Yes. I would like to confirm that it's the world record." AUDIENCES LOOKING AT WORLD'S LARGEST NEGRONI COCKTAIL VARIOUS OF POINT-OF-VIEW SHOTS OF SPIRIT BOTTLES BEING POURED INTO BARREL CONTAINER TO MAKE NEGRONI COCKTAIL VARIOUS OF BARTENDER POURING IN INGREDIENT MIXTURE INTO BARRELS BARTENDERS WORKING VARIOUS OF BARTENDERS POURING NEGRONI INGREDIENTS INTO BARREL KIRIMURA WATCHING THE POURING IN BACKGROUND LOGO EMBROIDERY OF GUINNESS WORLD RECORD BARTENDERS PUTTING 50 LITRES BARREL OF NEGRONI ONTO TABLE BOTTLES ON TABLE / HANDS GRABING SPIRIT BOTTLES
- Embargoed: 27th September 2022 03:25
- Keywords: GUINNESS WORLD RECORD HOTEL Negroni THAI cocktail
- Location: BANGKOK, THAILAND
- City: BANGKOK, THAILAND
- Country: Thailand
- Topics: Asia / Pacific,Arts/Culture/Entertainment
- Reuters ID: LVA001474712092022RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: A hotel in Bangkok broke the Guinness World Record for creating the world's largest Negroni cocktail on Monday (September 12) achieving over 630 litres of the iconic Italian drink in a large ice glass container.
To mark the 10th anniversary of the Negroni Week, the Kimpton Maa-Lai Bangkok Hotel wanted to start its celebration with a bang with an especially built acrylic container surrounded by ice, carved out to replicate its signature ice glass.
The container, displayed at the hotel's garden, is 1.7 meter in height, 1.4 meter wide and weighing around 400 kilograms in total.
"The record to beat is 504 litres, and the final result is 633.65 litres! Congratulations! You're officially amazing!" Guinness World Record adjudicator, Kazuyoshi Kirimura, said as he announced the new record amid a roaring crowd on Monday evening.
The hotel is then required to distribute all the Negroni made within the next couple of months, Kirimura added.
"Oh, fantastic," the hotel's general manager Patrick Both told Reuters after beating the record, adding that due to COVID-19, the attempt was delayed by 2 years when the hotel first started operating in Thailand.
"I mean, look, it's long time in the planning and, again, as I said on stage already - we thought, ok, you're going to mix a really big cocktail. [sic] We are really, really proud that we are able to do it," he said.
Since 2013, bars and restaurants around the world celebrate the Negroni Week from September 12-18, where proceedings go to charitable causes.
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