Much has been made of the resurgence of cocktails — but is the boom over? Has the cocktail moment passed? And if not, where’s it going to next?
Month: August 2013
Monday night saw the NSW round of the Angostura Global Cocktail Competition kick off at Miss Peaches, with Luke Redington of Hello Sailor taking out the honours.
The night that you have been waiting all year for is almost here… It’s the 2013 Bar Awards and that means, it’s after party time!
The put it in your mouth boys (Andy Penney & Rossco Charman) are back, and this year the theme is PROM NIGHT.
Sydney’s Oxford Street is set to get a fresh injection of tikitastic escapism when The Cliff Dive, a new bar from the boys from Tio’s, opens in late October. Located on Oxford Square in the space which housed the Gaff (and earlier, Rogues), The Cliff Dive is drawing on tiki influence from Australia’s near neighbours in PNG and East Timor.
Regular Bartender contributor Nick Reed has left his post running the bar at venerable Melbourne cocktailing institution, 1806, to return to his hometown of Geelong and set up his own bar.
Well, what Brisbane’s rockabilly scene has lost, their whisky drinkers have certainly gained. Owners Asa Boardman, Trent Goodwin, and Martin Lange (Sling) have turned what was once a rockabilly hairdresser into a bastion of whisky in the heart of the West End.
Lucky are those bartenders that start behind the bar these days. Not only do they have a cornucopia of cocktailing ingredients, they’re also coming up in a world in which fine glassware, elegant bar tools and a wealth of affordable cocktail book reprints are a given. That’s in no small part to guys like Greg Boehm, who’s New York-based company, Cocktail Kingdom, has been synonymous with cracking cocktailing gear. We talk to Greg Boehm about how Cocktail Kingdom came about, and his plans to build the business in Australia.
After a huge number of entries, island2island have narrowed it down to the top six competitors in each state, and we’ve got them listed here. And just to remind you about what’s at stake for this comp, the team at Angostura and island2island have got a whopping $10,000 in cash money and a trip to sunny Trinidad for the winner of the national final.
Why is it now, that after only three short years, I find myself writing about moving on and leaving Canvas behind? After just three years of great success within the Australian bar scene we have decided to sell Canvas.
East Ninth Brewing have released a limited edition dark lager for winter drinking fun. It’s an all natural beer brewed using five different malts, with notes of roasted coffee and dark chocolate, and hints of burnt caramel.
Influential Adelaide bar, Cushdy, is set to close its doors forever at the end of September, citing a long standing struggle with location as the chief factor in its closure.
Hemingway is the bartender’s booze-fuelled writer-laureate, and Philip Greene has pulled together all the drinks Hemingway wrote about, giving recipes and a little bit of the backstory. It’s like a good Hemingway novel, without the all that boring non-booze stuff.