Month: March 2009

Simon’s Picks… Small Screen Network

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.

Kit & Kaboodle

35 Darlinghurst Road, Kings Cross, Sydney 02 9368 7333 www.kitkaboodle.com.au Photography by Shannon McGrath Kings…

London Update… Doctor’s Orders

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.

Honey

Honey 345 Clarendon Street, South Melbourne 03 9696 3311 It’s Friday night. Half your mates…

Sebastian Says… it’s good to sample Middleton Irish Whiskey

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.

Melbourne Rum Club

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)

Local Taphouse & Barons Launch

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.