Australian Bartender

The Jungle Bird recipe, the way they make it at Lost Luau

If you’re thinking tiki drinks, no doubt you’ll often be thinking rum drinks. You’re often not thinking amari, or bitterness at all, but that’s what this Jungle Bird recipe brings to the table.

‘People overthink things too much.’ Paul Hammond on running the award-winning Bulletin Place

Paul Hammond is the guy at the helm of Sydney cocktail bar, Bulletin Place, and has the enviable — or unenviable, depending on your mindset — task of maintaining the high standards and dedication to hospitality that has seen the bar crowned as the Cocktail Bar of the Year an unprecedented four years in a row.

Batanga

Batanga 60 ml El Tequileno Blanco the juice of half a lime 120 ml Organics…

Savoury Gin & Tonic

Savoury Gin & Tonic 30 ml gin 90 ml StrangeLove Dirty Tonic Add ingredients to…

Croque Madame Moger

Croque Madame Moger 45 ml Campari 120 ml Fever-Tree Soda Water 30 ml gin Pour…

Here’s a salty take on the Espresso Martini

The Salty Sailor is a take on the Espresso Martini from new Brisbane pub, Little Big House: spiced rum courtesy of Sailor Jerry, some in-house syrup to tailor it just so, and garnished in the end with some toasted marshmallow.

Here’s what to expect when Mjølner Melbourne opens this year

Thanks to the success of their Sydney restaurant and bar, Mjølner, the Speakeasy Group will be opening a Melbourne out-post of the Viking-inspired eatery this year, on Hardware Street where Nieuw Amsterdam once operated. We asked Speakeasy’s Sven Almenning what to expect when Mjølner Melbourne opens this year, and what else they have in store for the year.