The latest addition to the Sydney Bar Week timetable is the brand new event, The Bitters, Books & Bostons Market being held at Old Mate’s Place.
It’s equal parts bourbon, sweet vermouth, and Campari, and so named for a socialite American who owned a magazine called The Boulevardier.
Bourbon making differs from, say, Scotch whisky making, in a few ways: first, 51 per cent of the grains used must be corn; the remainder is often made up of rye, malted barley and wheat.
Silvio Carta uses ingredients like elicriso, native to Sardinia, to give a scent to their gins that is wholly their own. And they make for some delicious drinking classic cocktails, too, as shown here by The Barber Shop’s Cristiano Beretta.
World Gin Day approaches, people, so put out your juniper, prepare a liquid lunch and…
Because, on the day after the night before that was the Bar Awards, what’s better than a little encased meat on bread? Planet Snag is set to sizzle Bar Week.
Held every two years, the Bartender Magazine Most Influential List sponsored by The House of Angostura is the original list of the who’s who of the Australian bar industry. Nominations close on Friday 7 June 2019 at midnight AEST.
There’s a lot going on inside the June issue of Australian Bartender, and you can…
Created in the 1990s by an American bartender named Paul Harrington, the Jasmine Cocktail is…
The Clover Club is one of those pre-Prohibition classics with any number of recipes; some…
What’s not to like about a cocktail that is essentially a Chartreuse-ified Martinez? We’ve got…
The second quiz in our series of practice quizzes is below, and it’ll give you a sense of the the kind of things you’ll be asked in the exam, but be warned: there’ll be many fewer multiple choice questions on the day.











