Mornington Penninsula bar Flaggerdoot’s most popular cocktail – priced at $23 – has won 42BELOW’s Sustainable Cocktail Showcase.

Created by bartender Tioni Naslund, 42 Reasons uses leftover mandarins to make a marmalade to use as a base for the cocktail, 42Below is infused with ruby grapefruit peel, mint, lemon juice and ginger beer. Naslund designed the drink in a bid to help further reduce waste at the bar’s base within luxury hotel Jackalope.

It joins a creation by Adelaide’s Hades Hula House’s Honni Cox (above) – One-in-a-Melon, a zero waste take on the classic (but super wasteful) bubble tea – in the top spot. 

The two Aussies, join New Zealand winners Juleon Green (Bedford Soda and Liquor) and Alex Vowles (Hawthorn Lounge).

All four are off on an eco-trip to Bali to meet with Grinngo and be taken on a Tour-de-Trash, helping save the ocean from plastic pollutants, working in recycling and sorting plants, and training Bali bartenders on how to run a sustainable cocktail program.

42Below promises the experience will be lifechanging for the bartenders, and that they will come back and continue to lead the way in sustainable bartending back home.

Head judge Kane Stanford, 42BELOW Global Brand Manager, said: “There were some amazing drinks for us to sift though. We were so stoked to see such creative approaches to sustainable cocktails. No straws is easy, but just the beginning, so it was great to see such innovation from our industry leaders. It was a tough gig to judge, but in the end the winners were clear and deserved. Well played, folks.”

The 42BELOW Sustainable Cocktail Showcase aims to promote and celebrate the great work that awesome bartenders are doing to create cocktails which are both sustainable and delicious.