Brad Thomas Parsons is an award-winning cocktail and spirits writer who specialises in Bitters, Amaro and asking bartenders what their final drink would be.

Brad has written three books since debuting with James Beard Award-winning ‘Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-all’ in 2011, which cemented him as an authority on the elemental cocktail ingredient and its history. For his most recent title,  ‘Last Call: Bartenders on Their Final Drink and the Wisdom and Rituals of Closing Time’, Brad surveyed a range of bars and bartenders from all walks of life about their routines at closing time, as well as what they would choose as their deathbed cocktail