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.
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.
Swing open the door to a tavern in the late 1600’s in Boston, and you’d find plenty of carousing and swearing thanks in no small part to the “drams of flip” they were consuming. These were revolutionary times in America, and you can channel them for yourself with this Hot Ale Flip recipe.
Here’s three delicious recipes to carry you through World Gin Day. Perhaps you should kick off with the Atlas Signature Martini from the Singapore bar of the same name. Then carry on with the Pegu Club, before easing into the next day with a solid Red Snapper.
Just three ingredients make this drink, the Daiquiri: rum, lime, and sugar. But, as Sam Bygrave discovers here, it’s not just the sweet and the sour that make the Daiquiri sing. Instead, there’s a number of tweaks and checks that need to be made before a perfect Daiquiri recipe — if there is such a thing — comes to life.
Now in its fifth year (they turn five years old this December), Sydney bar Bulletin Place has won the Cocktail Bar of the Year award at the Bartender Magazine Australian Bar Awards an unprecedented four years in a row, and figured on the World’s 50 Best Bars list each year since opening. Here’s how they stay at the top of their game.
With all the interest in craft spirits — and botanical spirits, like gin — combined with a focus on all things Scandinavian, you’d think akvavit would be getting more attention. So what is akvavit?
Melbourne bar, The Beaufort & Ike’s take a different approach to their cocktails to most bars. Their latest list landed yesterday, so we thought we’d take a look.
The creative bartender-owner of Singapore’s Operation Dagger, Luke Whearty, has moved to Melbourne to open a second bar.
For a bottle to carry the designation Vermouth di Torino on the label, there are rules that must be followed that govern how the vermouth is made. Take a look at what the new vermouth di Torino geographical indication involves.
Take a look at these three essential vermouth cocktail recipes, and please, please, please: look after your vermouth.
Here’s four Highball recipes to try — and to make a perfect, freakin’ soigne Highball, do as Germany’s Joerg Meyer does for his Boilerman Bar: they have Highball glasses in the freezer, frosty and ready to go.