Open on a site which once housed a Japanese karaoke swingers club called Swing Box (we guess the clue was in the name) is the latest bar from Hamish Watts and Ben Carroll of the Applejack Hospitality Group.
Month: December 2013
Happy Repeal Day! On December 5th bartenders in the US and the world will be toasting the end of the ‘noble experiment’ that was Prohibition. Today marks the 80th anniversary of the end of Prohibition in 1933 and to celebrate, why not indulge in the 12 Mile Limit?
The iPad edition of our December issue is now live in the App Store. In this month’s issue:
Read this before you open a bar – Phil Bayly talks about the pitfalls you need to avoid to set up a successful bar…
Since its launch in the US in 1995, the Blue Moon Belgian White Belgian-style wheat ale has grown in popularity (these days you’ll be sure to find the flavoursome beer on tap in pretty much every airport bar across the country) and served to help ignite the interest in non-mainstream styles of beer there. Now, as part of CCA’s efforts to get back into beer in a big way, Blue Moon can be found across Australia.
Well it’s an opening we’ve been waiting for all year and now the time has come. Papa Jack’s, the new bar from Marco and Emily Nunes (one half of the four owners who set up the influential Brisbane bar, Canvas) is open for business.
This distinctive rum from the Philippines is one you’ll remember and is now available through icon Beverages
Come January 2, 2014, while most bartenders are still likely recovering from NYE hangovers, Bacardi Lion will take on the distribution of Magners cider and launch its sister brand, Gaymers onto the Aussie market.
Newcastle is getting in on the small bar act with the opening of new bar, MoenyPenny…
The Brisbane bartending community gathered together a few weeks back at Martin Lange’s Cobbler to getteir Rematch!!! Beeyatch!!! on. We’ve just had this little video of the night’s festivities come across our desks and thought it was well worth a share.