The Brisbane bartending community gathered together a few weeks back at Martin Lange’s Cobbler to getteir Rematch!!! Beeyatch!!! on. We’ve just had this little video of the night’s festivities come across our desks and thought it was well worth a share.
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WA bar manager Ben Tua is opening up his own bar with Mechanics Institute owners Hamish Fleming and Siobhan Blumann. We asked Ben about his plans for the place.
It’s hard work, but as they say, someone’s got to do it. After visiting bars across the country the panel of judges — including industry legend Phil Bayly and Bacardi’s international brand ambassador, David Cordoba — in the Bacardi Legacy Cocktail Competiton have whittled down the field of 25 finalists to just five: the Five Most Promising.
Not ones for resting on their considerable laurels, the award-winning Eau de Vie is releasing their very own brand of small batch bottled cocktails. It’s something that has been on the cards for a while, according to owner Sven Almenning.
Over 350 people gathered at Sydney’s Hugos Lounge to witness the five state finalists of Suntory’s Cocktail Connoisseur competition shake, stir and mix it up against one another. At stake was bragging rights and a once in a lifetime trip to Japan with a cool $1000 cash in spending money.
The Sydney Morning Herald’s Good Pub Guide has announced the winners in their 2014 edition. We recently highlighted just how good the Woolwich Pier Hotel’s renovations were (and how tasty the new food offering is), so its good to see those efforts being rewarded, with the hotel taking out the best pub award this year.
This month’s bumper issue is now live in the App Store! We’ve got the big 2013 Bar Awards Winners edition, and it’s the first time we’ve put someone on the cover — and who better to grace the cover than this year’s winner of the Bartender of the Year sponsored by ABSOLUT ELYX and Havana Club, Mr Sean Chow.
On his recent trip to Australia for Sydney Bar Week, Cocktail Kingdom founder Greg Boehm said that his new bar, Golden Cadillac, is opening soon.
Two bars from Northbridge in Perth — Mechanics Institute and Ezra Pound — have taken out the top gongs at the Small Bar Association of WA’s Small Bar of the Year Awards 2013.
With the bar boom in full swing there’s never been a better time for access to new hooch, with the arrival of new distributor Icon Beverages on to the scene. “Our desire is to build a portfolio of brands that offer consumers and customers something truly unique and enjoyable,” said Icon Beverages owner Manuel Bonnici. “Each of the brands we have chosen does this.”
It’s a widespread and much loved end to the night. You shut the doors, close the bar and then crack a beer for staffies. But, in NSW at least, you could be breaking the law.
Sydney pub operators Drink ‘n’ Dine will this week throw open the doors to their new venue above the Norfolk Hotel, House of Crabs — described as “part crab shack, part dive bar, part Coyote ugly on acid.”