Hendrick’s Gin brings the National Cucumber Games to the Netherlands
A while ago, Hendrick’s Gin launched a new limited edition: Lunar Gin. And now the hugely popular gin brand has more fun and delicious news: Hendrick’s Gin is opening a pop-up bar and bringing the Cucumber Games to the Netherlands. Just check out the National Cucumber Games website and you’ll know it’s hilarious.
For centuries, the Cucumber Games were a secret tradition practised exclusively within the walls of Hendrick’s Gin Palace Gin, in the Scottish coastal village of Girvan. Great cucumber-sport champions come here every year to test their strength in unusual challenges and trials. In 2021, the championship and its distinctive pop-up bar venture outside for the first time – open to anyone who dares.
Make a reservation at the pop-up bar
Cucumber athletes and enthusiastic amateurs qualify by making a reservation at the pop-up bar. Those who dare—and perhaps win—will compete in 6 different trials and challenges – alone or together with a teammate. No training is required for the games, because what the events involve will only be discovered by the participants once the starting whistle at the start has sounded.
Amazing prizes
As usual, the athletes are not competing solely for honour and glory. The three strongest participants will take home the prizes. Whoever emerges as champion will celebrate this victory with an overnight stay at the wonderful Hotel Pulitzer Amsterdam, including dinner at Jansz. (and believe me, you want that!) and cocktails at Pulitzer’s Bar. The second- and third-place finishers will toast their success with a dinner worth €200 at Branie or a cocktail evening worth €100 at Bar Mokum, respectively. But victorious or not, every athlete can toast their performance in the pop-up bar afterwards.
Reserve your spot
Want to take part in the most cucumber-filled event of this sporting summer? Reserve a spot at the pop-up bar via the National Cucumber Games website. Each reservation is for a 1:45-hour time slot and qualification for the games. But don’t worry. Anyone who already finds lifting a G&T strenuous can simply stay seated in the bar.
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