What is grappa? Grappa and other pomace brandies are made as a byproduct of the winemaking process, another example of humankind’s ability to get some good boozing out of what would otherwise be garbage.
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The Blends of the World is excited to announce that… drum roll please… the extremely talented and highly accoladed Joe Schofield is coming to Australia.
If nothing else, NYE is a celebration of the fact that we’ll never learn and that champagne is both great and good.
At a bar like the Palisade, when you can get several lines of thirsty customers banked up every evening, taking a minute to shake an Espresso Martini isn’t an efficient use of time when you can take less than ten seconds to pour it instead.
Jägermeister’s Hubertus Circle members ventured over to the world’s wildest party city for BCB. Upon their return, we sat down the guys to see what it’s all about. In the second instalment; Evan Stroeve – Bulletin Place – discusses trends we should keep an eye out for, and what Sydney could learn from Berlin’s nightlife scene.
Here, we talk to Dylan Alexander and Alexander Haeusler at Little Drippa to get the lowdown on what it’s like to start a small beverage business and how to get the perfect coffee cocktail.
2018 may have been another shitshow of a year when it comes to global events — and the tweets of certain orange-faced clown — but in the bar world at least, things have been looking pretty good.
There’s loads of good stuff to dive into from the December issue of Australian Bartender, plus new bars, stacks of recipes and more inside.
Grey Goose global brand ambassador Joe McCanta talks to us about how the super-premium vodka’s French heritage continues to provide inspiration and context.
The bartender most associated with the Cosmopolitan recipe is Dale DeGroff. He used to be credited with the drinks invention, though he’s never claimed it; rather he “popularised a definitive recipe that became widely accepted as the standard,” he says.
Award-winning operator Martin Lange will open new Brisbane Bar Death & Taxes in 2019 — here’s what you can expect from the fourth bar in his stable.
It was big news in the global bar trade when Alex Kratena stepped down from his role running the Artesian bar at The Langham a few years back: he had just seen the bar named as the number one bar in the world on the World’s 50 Best Bars for the fourth year in a row.











