Suntory’s Ultrapour team have been busily scouring Australian bars for the nation’s most professional barkeeps to compete in the final of Ultrapour’s Professional bartending challenge. The competition, that was last year taken out by Hemmesphere’s Sébastien Derbomez, offers five finalists the chance to compete for a European bar and distillery tour valued at over 10,000 dollars.
Events
Events
With the completion of the third and final component of the Australian leg of Reserve’s year long World Class program 10 finalists have been announced to compete for a spot to take on 24 of the world’s best bartenders. The final is set to be held next Tuesday in Sydney.
Club Suntory and Yamazaki Japanese whisky held a master class at Ocean Room last week to unveil their new silver highball cups.
The Walk for Haiti – a Melbourne based charity cocktail event held on Thursday May 6 – was met with huge success raising $5730.00 for the UN’s World Food Programme.
Last Thursday – World Cocktail Day – saw crowds pile in to George Street’s Ivy to watch the Magnificent 7 Final Shootout and celebrate the anniversary of the cocktail.
After a full day of grueling competition – following a year long program – Sydney’s Luke Redington, from Eau-De-Vie, took out the top honours after an entertaining performance in front of the large consumer crowd.
The search for Australia’s best G&T is kicking off this month! Schweppes wants bartenders to take the classic G&T and add 1 part creativity, 1 part presentation and 1 part story, to make something not quite old and not quite new, but really quite incredible: Australia’s best G&T.
Thursday May 6 officially marks the beginning of World Cocktail Week – the week in which the cocktail loving world will celebrate the 204th anniversary of our favourite drink category being defined in print.
Merivale will be shaking things up with a series of cool cocktail events to honour this year’s World Cocktail Week ( May 1o-15) and the 204th anniversary of the cocktail.
On 6 May, 2010 Melbourne’s hidden bar community will be recreating ‘forgotten classics’ to raise money for disaster stuck Haiti with their ‘Walk for Haiti’ charity cocktail event.
Wednesday March 31 saw the official wrap party for the Parched March: 30 Bars in 30 Days odyssey.
Woodford Reserve has announced the launch of an innovative new horse racing program in Australia. The top-shelf bourbon brand is looking for a cocktail to compliment their program in a competition aptly named the Woodford Reserve Cocktail Derby.
From more than two thousand bartenders around the world, Saturday saw the Team USA trio of Mark Stoddard, Todd Thrasher and Sean Hoard emerged as the clear winners in the sixth 42 Below Cocktail World Cup.