I don’t know if I’m the only one who is sick to death of hearing…
Month: March 2009
Admittedly it has been a while between drinks since my last post, but I have finally got my act together in order to tell you all a little bit about one of 4bars.com.au’s favourite sites; Small Screen Network. Small Screen Network is a media company that is focused on bringing high quality video and informative blogs on cocktails and drink culture.
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The Lark in Brisbane will host it’s inaugural appreciation society event on Wednesday, 25th March.…
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown isn’t exactly flavour of the month around here. Before he moved his chair behind the big desk at 10 Downing Street, he was Chancellor of the Exchequer and pretty much everyone is blaming his policies, past and present, for the God-awful state of our economy.
I was lucky to enjoy an impromptu vertical tasting of Middleton Irish Whiskey the other week and I thought I’d jot down a few words. We have two vintages of this glorious drop at 1806, the 2004 and the 2006. One of our regulars who we hadn’t seen for a while popped in early one evening with a bottle of the newly released 2007 that he had tracked down in the US. So we figured, hey, lets compare them all.
On Monday, 2 March, over 75 of the Melbourne bartending elite attended the city’s largest rum club to date to witness the introduction of Ron Zacapa to Australia as the newest addition to Diageo’s Reserve Brands (set to launch to the trade on April 1)
The Sydney branch of The Local Taphouse (the original is in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda) had its launch party on Thursday, 12th March.
The cocktail shaker is far more than a simple tool for bartenders to prepare drinks in. It has over the past century become a symbol for civilized society, for elegance, sophistication and the embodiment of good times… Sven Almenning dusts off some antique gems and takes a look at the history behind this, the most indispensable of bar tools…
Get your vote on for the Australian bar industy’s night of nights.That’s right; it’s that time of the year once more; time to get your vote on for the only national awards night dedicated to our beloved bar industry. As of March 1 voting will be open for the Australian bar awards at www.barshow.co.au. You may have heard on the grapevine that there have been a couple of changes to the awards categories…