There’s been a lot of action on all things Angostura of late — if you haven’t checked out this year’s winner of the Angostura Global Cocktail Challenge make sure you click here — and there’s more to come with the visit to Australia by master distiller John Georges.
Paul Mant, a name most people equate with ridiculously cool London bars — not to mention the Reematch!!! Beeyatch!!! event — has now relocated to Sydney to work with the Merivale Group, taking over where Mike Enright left off. Australian Bartender took the chance to chat with our country’s most recent English immigrant to talk bars, booze and plans for the future…
If there’s one word to describe this book, it would be ‘comprehensive’.
Called 1001 Beers to Try Before You Die, editor Adrian Tierney-Jones and his team of writers have scoured the globe for the best brews going.
What you drink says a lot about who you are, where you’re from, and when you were alive. We go down the ages and see what kind of booze separated the toffs from the townies…
After a number of rounds, which have seen bartenders from throughout the country compete in a series of challenges, Mike Tomasic from The Wild Rover in Sydney has emerged victorious in the Australian round of the Angostura Global Cocktail Challenge.
You could be forgiven for being a bit confused when it comes to mezcal production and the processes involved — though the rusticity is part of its charm, mezcal producers can be a bit opaque in terms of providing information. That’s where anatomiadelmezcal.net comes in…
By Shaun Pattinson
Cocktail competitions, I believe, are a great opportunity for young and aspiring bartenders to judge themselves against their fellow industry peers. They are also a fantastic way to develop a very high opinion of yourself and the importance of the role you play on this planet.
There’s nowhere else quite like Havana. Hinky Dinks’ Dan Knight whiles the night away on her streets and in her bars, and finds there’s still life in the old girl yet…
“What? No. We can’t stop here. This is bat country.”
Those words of Raoul Duke — Hunter S. Thompson’s fictional literary alter ego — open the 1998 movie, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and have inspired the name of a new bar opening in Randwick: Bat Country.
From October 1st to December 31st every purchase of (Belvedere) RED will see half of the profits go towards a global fund to help eliminate AIDS in Africa.
Since launching in 2011, sales from (Belvedere) RED have provided more than 4.5 million days of HIV/AIDS medicine…
There is no mistaking it: mezcal has been on the lips of bartenders everywhere of late. Not that it’s something you’re going to find many punters are asking for (they’re still getting used to the idea of tequila as something you sip), mezcal is just a step too far for many of them..
Here comes something a little different from the Wild Turkey family. The latest release, Wild Turkey Forgiven, came about by way of accident when workers in the Wild Turkey distillery mixed up batches of very rare and high-proof rye with bourbon.