Today we’re asking the question: what is rum? Here’s your guide to the basics you need to know about this spirit that pops up wherever sugarcane is grown.
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What is gin? There’s never been more gin available in Australia than there is today, and it is very much in vogue with punters. Below, we’ve got a quickstart guide just what is gin all about.
“After 11 fantastic years it’s time to put my feet up,” says Melbourne bar owner Lisa Kelly. “18o6 is on the lookout for a new owner.”
Before we move ahead into the busy season, we’re taking a look back to take stock of what the big stories were in October.
To celebrate the fifth birthday of Papa Gede’s Bar they’ve just released their latest menu — and it’s a best-practice example of a fun-drinking cocktail list.
A one of a kind bartending trip: spend the night out bush in the Northern Territory, and have an intimate audience with bourbon distilling royalty — Wild Turkey’s Eddie Russell.
Hubertus Circle Australia delivered the essence of Berlin downunder in Sydney: ice cold shots of Jägermeister, an abandoned church, techno, and a snake to name but a few of the highlights.
DeGroff was in Australia in August for De Kuyper’s The Works program and got around to share his story with bartenders across Australia; here we talk to him about his extraordinary career.
It pays to have a few unique serves up your sleeve, and this is where tequila — like the ones from Jose Cuervo and 1800 we’ve got here — can really shine.
Expect to sample whiskies from throughout the world when Bancho Bar, the new Chinatown cocktail bar from the team behind Tokyo Bird, opens in November.
One of the great things we’ve been witness to over the last few years is…
Could we be entering an age of the hyphenate bar? Take PS40, for instance: it’s a soda factory-bar; Archie Rose in Sydney is a distillery-bar; and so too is this new venture, Brix Distillers.