Sad news came out of London over Christmas, with the death of Martin Miller, co-founder of Martin Millers Gin.
He died of cancer on Christmas Eve, at the age of 67.
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Melbourne bar, Los Barbudos, has teamed up with Bacardi to host the first Bat-Ball League tournament, in which plenty of booze, baseball and BBQ will take place (along with a bunch of smack talk, we assume).
Not many brands can claim to have faced the adversities Bacardi has: they’ve seen fires, earthquakes, Prohibition and exile, just to name a few. And their new “Bacardi Untameable since 1862” campaign — which kicks off with the commercial shown below — is designed to capture those elements of the company’s family history.
From bar closures to a raft of new openings, award winners and the spirit of the summer (we reckon it could be mezcal): here are the biggest news stories of 2013 — as read by you!
A good looking bottle for Absolut Originality, news from the ranks of Shady Pines, The Baxter Inn and Frankie’s Pizza, bikie laws in Queensland and penalty rate cuts rejected.
If it weren’t for booze, we’re pretty sure there’d be no rock and roll. Without it we’d have been doomed to an endless loop of Hanson or, worse yet, Nickelback. Thankfully there is booze and bars and rock and roll is all the better for it, and there’s few people who have seen it as close up as snapper Ross Halfin.
The iPad edition of our December issue is now live in the App Store. In this month’s issue:
Read this before you open a bar – Phil Bayly talks about the pitfalls you need to avoid to set up a successful bar…
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.
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.