“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.”
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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.
This new venue in the Perth CBD comes from Andy Freeman and the Sneakers & Jeans group, who own The Flour Factory, Varnish on King, and Hadiqa in Perth (to name just a few).
As with all things Speakeasy Group — whom you may know from such award-winning bars as Eau de Vie Sydney and Melbourne, Boilermaker House, and Mjolner Sydney and Melbourne — they’ve brought their signature flair for the extravagant to the new venue, which might be their most ambitious yet.