You can grow tired of drinking Martini’s (a hard feat, but it’s possible), and if you’re a bar like The Barber Shop in Sydney which specialises in gin, features gin in each of its cocktails, and is all gin all the time, you have to find ways of catering to customers for whom gin might not necessarily be a favourite.
Featured
Featured Content
Here’s three delicious recipes to carry you through World Gin Day. Perhaps you should kick off with the Atlas Signature Martini from the Singapore bar of the same name. Then carry on with the Pegu Club, before easing into the next day with a solid Red Snapper.
At the cellar bar of Sydney restaurant Bouche on Bridge, they’re banging out some interesting wine cocktails as well as this Spritz — here, florals take a starring role, with the gin and just a hint of Suze providing an earthy anchor to the mix.
Just three ingredients make this drink, the Daiquiri: rum, lime, and sugar. But, as Sam Bygrave discovers here, it’s not just the sweet and the sour that make the Daiquiri sing. Instead, there’s a number of tweaks and checks that need to be made before a perfect Daiquiri recipe — if there is such a thing — comes to life.
The June issue is packed with interviews from some smart bar industry people — take a look at our chat with Luke Whearty, owner of influential Singapore bar Operation Dagger; find out what one of Australia’s most in-demand distillers does each day with our Day in the Life with Brendan Carter of Unico Zelo and Applewood Distillery; follow mezcal ambassador Phil Bayly off the beaten track through the back roads of Mexico; and get tips from Speakeasy Group’s Sven Almenning on how to negotiate a better deal for you bar with liquor brands.
Now in its fifth year (they turn five years old this December), Sydney bar Bulletin Place has won the Cocktail Bar of the Year award at the Bartender Magazine Australian Bar Awards an unprecedented four years in a row, and figured on the World’s 50 Best Bars list each year since opening. Here’s how they stay at the top of their game.
Patrón is challenging the world’s best bartenders to create a cocktail worthy of a perfectionist. Entries are now open to become the next Patrón Perfectionist.
Today, operator Sven Almenning continues his series on how to open a bar, with a look at financials, P&L sheets and forecasting. Below you can also download the Excel spreadsheet Almenning uses to run the numbers on their new bars, and check out the video as he walks you through the spreadsheet.
On Sunday May 29, a jam-packed crowd of passionate punters and keen hospitality types descended upon Lefty’s Old Time Music Hall in Brisbane for the return of the Indie Spirits Tasting. The event, which is also staged in both Sydney and Perth, is all about great spirits and good times, and there was plenty of that in store in Brisbane.
island2island has opened entries to the Australian heats of the Angostura Global Cocktail Challenge, now held every other year. Calling on the very best bartenders from across the country, this comp tests both the knowledge and the skill of its competitors as they battle it out to become the next Australian Angostura Brand Ambassador.
Do you have what it takes to be the Bartender of the Year? Take our practice quiz to see where your knowledge is at and get your registration in before May 31.
In March, Southern Comfort kicked off the first ever Southern Comfort Travelling Tales Cocktail Competition and so far it has been an amazing journey, with the competition stopping at five cities around the country for the State Finals over the past two weeks.