With gin popping up from distilleries across the globe, the cast of botanicals on display goes well beyond the juniper, coriander, citrus peel and angelica combo so often seen.
If you don’t like bourbon this Mint Julep recipe may not be for you, but this simple combination of bourbon, sugar, mint and ice is no pushover.
Some cocktails are perfect for when you’re sweating it out in the sun; this Kentucky Buck recipe is one such drink.
You could be forgiven for thinking that a cocktail named after artillery used in the first world war would clobber your palate, but if it’s made just so, there’s few things more elegant than the French 75.
Beneath Driver Lane is a new Melbourne bar that’s just opened from Hamish Goonetilleke, the guy behind Fitzroy’s Rum Diary Bar and Rum Diary Spiced Rum.
This weekend, they’ll be hosting their first session interstate, when Coleman’s Academy lands in Melbourne on Sunday.
New Sydney bar, Door Knock, opens to the public on Friday this week, and we’ve got a look at their first cocktail list.
Respected Sydney restaurateur and hotelier Maurice Terzini (Icebergs and The Dolphin) has partnered with fashion designer Justin O’Shea to launch Goldy Gin, a gin that is designed to taste like, well, gin.
How does a bar make the World’s 50 Best Bars list? What makes a bar a world-beater? During Sydney Bar Week, this was the topic up for discussion at the Business of Bars Conference at The Whisky Room at The Clock Hotel. On the panel were some heavy hitters: Luke Whearty, from Operation Dagger, Chris Hysted-Adams from Black Pearl, Jason Williams from Proof & Company and 28 Hong Kong Street, and Jason Scott from Swillhouse — all of whom are from bars on the World’s 50 Best list — along with award-winners Mike Enright from The Barber Shop, Jeremy Shipley from Solotel, and Hayley Morison from Beam-Suntory.
They’ve taken their punk anti-waste popup on tour around the globe, and now Trash Tiki will popup at Sydney’s Ramblin’ Rascal Tavern in December.
Hailing from Perth, Kieran Lee is the quiet, unassuming guy you’ll find behind the bar at The Barber Shop; he’s the one surveying the scene and getting what needs to be done, done. But the guy knows his drinks, and — given the Gin Bar of the Year stocks some 500 types — he also knows his gin.
Well the New York Sour is a classic cocktail we love, but we think we might like this riff on it from Travis Cosgrove and James Irvine of Swillhouse (the group behind the 2017 Bar of the Year, The Baxter Inn) even more.