Lady Bartenders Kick Cocktail Ass at the Speed Rack Challenge

An arc of Plymouth gin shot briefly through the air at Gallery MSquared on Sunday night, leaping out of the bottle like liquid sparks as bartender Lindsey Ann battled her way through a roster of drinks at the Houston leg of the Speed Rack bartending competition. Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation" blared from the speakers as Ann moved like a blur through the bottles in her well. In only two minutes and ten seconds, the Liberty Station bartender had made a dry martini, an agave Old Fashioned, a Great Surprise (a Lillet-based cocktail) and a Cosmopolitan. PHOTOS BY GROOVEHOUSE