The Dream Catcher presents and pours just like a natural wine, and it blew away the judges (and the competitors, too). Indeed, after Gregory’s presentation had concluded and the competition ended for the night, you could see more than a few of the bartending industry’s big names clamouring for a swig from the bottle.
Month: November 2017
With summer beginning tomorrow and spring well and truly sprung, we know you’re been busy keeping the public hydrated and comfortable. So in case you missed them, here’s six top reads from the month of November.
Next in our series of tips and advice from this year’s stellar Top 8 comes Priscilla Leong from The Baxter Inn, one of the world’s best bars and this year’s Bar of the Year.
‘I’d never stood on stage in front of that many people.’ Tom Loosli shares his advice from the Top 8
Thomas Loosli gives some solid advice for competing on stage and keeping calm, and given that he knocked his Bartender of the Year performance out of the park this year, it’s advice worth paying attention to.
The formulation for a Fizz is a relatively simple one: it’s spirit, citrus, sugar and soda water. Here’s five essential Fizz recipes you ought to know.
Billed as a “dedicated space for collaboration and getting innovative work done,” Worksmith is set to open in the creative Melbourne hub of Collingwood in early 2018.
The Martini is the perfect vehicle for delivering some straight-up, let’s-not-muck-about great tasting booze to your face; here’s 7 variations on the Martini recipe you can use to create your own riff.
Rum has been flavoured with fruits and spices in the Caribbean pretty much since the time of its inception, but how do you use spiced rum? These four cocktail recipes pack a whole lot of flavour.
New Sydney bar The Duke of Clarence opens their doors this December — here’s a preview of what to expect from the cocktails.
We knew already that Irvine has a way with drinks — the Pastis Fizz he created for Restaurant Hubert was just about our favourite drink of 2016 — but it was his off the cuff banter on stage whilst presenting his drinks in front of 600 people at the Bartender Magazine Australian Bar Awards that saw him as a crowd favourite for the competition.
Two Baxter Inn alumni have just launched the new Sydney ice supply company Bare Bones Ice Co.
Jonothan Carr offers some tips for the Bartender of the Year competition and shares some insight into what it was like to be on stage for the final round.