Editor Sam Bygrave rounds up the week’s highlights from australianbartender.com.au, and shares what he’s been reading (and listening to) to calm a serious case of Tales of the Cocktail envy.
Month: July 2017
You should always go full tiki, and that’s what Chicago tiki bar Three Dots and a Dash as done with their latest menu — take a look here.
Need a grapefruit and lavender bitters? There’s a brand with that. Or perhaps, no, you need oolong tea notes with your grapefruit bitters? There’s a bitters for that, too. Garlic Cocktail Spice? Unicorn Tears? You get the idea. So, just how many bitters do you need?
The standalone conference during Bar Week has taken place each year since 2005, and during the four 45 minute talks, some of the country’s best operators and industry personalities will be tackling topics that aspiring bar owners will want to know about.
It’s World Daiquiri Day so here’s two Daiquiri recipes: a hybrid classic spec, and the Pteradaiquiri
We’ve written before about the Daiquiri, of course, but today is the 19th and that means we’ll be sipping these two Daiquiri recipes to celebrate World Daiquiri Day today.
The Test Pilot was copyrighted in 1941 by Beach, the drink has appeared elsewhere under different names, like the Space Pilot (at Tiki Ti in Los Angeles), the Jet Pilot (at the Mai-Kai Restaurant in Florida), the Ace Pilot and the Astronaut.
Patrón is challenging the world’s best bartenders to create a cocktail worthy of a perfectionist. This is your last chance to enter — entries close 21st July.
“We have bars that make outstanding drinks, and bars that are aesthetically beautiful. But the best bars engage people in so many ways. There’s nothing like Australian hospitality.”
Melbourne cocktail bar Above Board made a showing in the finalists list for this year’s Bartender Magazine Australian Bar Awards, picking up some six nominations. Get to know the bar a little better with this simple, refreshing drink from bartender-owner, Hayden Lambert.
Kate McGraw is in charge of all things liquid for Sydney’s Lotus Dining Group, writing the lists and conducting the training and everything else that falls within that purview, for five Asian restaurants.
Here, Sam Egerton demonstrates through his Winter Mornings in Christchurch how Charlie Parker’s explores experiential and emotive drinks concepts within their menu.
The Gresham, two-time winning Bar of the Year at the Bartender Magazine Australian Bar Awards, is creating a bar within its walls called The Drawing Room.