Bartender Magazine’s Most Influential List
The voting for the Bartender Magazine’s Top 50 Most Influential List has just wrapped up. The nominated Top 50 for 2011 will be released in Bartender’s upcoming March edition. The inaugural Most Influential List event took off in 2009 with Vernon Chalker (Gin Palace and Madame Brussels, Melbourne) taking out the top spot. “It was a great honour to win,” said Chalker recently, “the greatest form of flattery is if others look to my work for inspiration.”
The BarShow team is looking for new and exciting sessions for the Bar Mixology & Bar Talks theatre. Your seminar can be presented by you alone, or you can put together a panel of three (plus a host).
Feed-up with Feb-fast? Over October? Time to say bye to Dry July? Well you’re in luck as Parched March, Sydney’s only month-long celebration of bar culture is back – the perfect antidote to abstinence.
Good things are happening in Australia’s most western state and Kitsch Bar has been described as, ‘a gem of an example of a small bar/restaurant’.
From adversity comes triumph and Glenfiddich is set to release the Snow Phoenix; ‘a unique, limited edition single malt Scotch whisky bottled in 2010’.
Bartender magazine was fortunate enough to be given some time to have an audience with Hidetsugu Ueno, the Japanese master bartender, over Sydney BarShow Week in September. Ueno-san was a guest…
Bali is truly one of the most exciting and beautiful places on earth with something for everyone (as long as you can handle the heat and humidity of course!).
The venue is owned by Jamie Pickering and Craig Missen who also own The Bedroom Nightclub in Surfers Paradise. With their extensive experience in hospitality, the owners decided to keep the design of the venue in-house and charged Maya Eschembrenner and Bastian Foersterling with the task of bringing their concept to life.
Not far removed from a hidden whisky smugglers bothy, Shady Pines eeks out it’s existence in a backstreet on the corner of Crown and Oxford Street, Sydney and is developing a cult following all week round.
Melbourne is characterized by its small bar scene and thriving nightlife culture, so now the City of Melbourne is taking steps to equip new hospitality businesses with the right tools to begin trading and continue to survive in the competitive CBD market.
This month we have a chat to Adam Petire, bartender at The Stockhouse in Melboure, to find out what makes him tick, what makes him stay in the trade and what he might serve you up if you come in for a drink.
Like wine, the category of cider can often fall into two main areas; mass produced high volume products or smaller, handcrafted more artisanal operations.