Myriam Hendrickx is the Master Distiller at Rutte and a true expert in her industry — here, she talks about what drives her, and how she blends a true love for the past with a nose for the future.
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The ultimate showdown between your local barista and bartender is happening year with a competition to see who really makes the best coffee cocktails after dark.
The pizza is great at Sydney’s Maybe Frank, but the drinks are just as good. We asked co-owner Andrea Gualdi to share with us the ideas behind the Maybe Frank cocktail list.
Matt Whiley is the brains behind Peg + Patriot, as well as a co-founder of Purl and Worship Street Whistling Shop. His new bar, Scout, is a small bar with big plans for respecting seasonality and sustainability.
Following on from a successful pop-up with Nico de Soto of New York bar, Mace, the team at PS40 is getting set for another collab, this time with Luke Whearty, the bartender-owner of Singapore bar, Operation Dagger.
Sydney-based bartender Kurtis Bosley is the group bar operations manager for the Public House Management group, with a considerable Instagram — his account, @cocktailsbykurtis has a following of some 39,000 people.
We love a good cocktail list here at Australian Bartender — whether it’s a comprehensive compendium of curated classics, or a short and sweet selection written up on butchers’ paper, what you put in to your menu tells us a lot about what you set out to achieve as a bar.
When the Death Flip first appeared on the menu of Black Pearl, it featured the tagline, “You don’t wanna meet this cocktail in a dark alley. Ingredients unnamed.” Since then, the Death Flip has been embraced by bartenders across the globe and become a modern classic.
Made by Hawke’s Brewing Co, the popular PM is the face of the new beer, which is now available on tap in limited release.
On Monday evening The Perfect Blend New Zealand final was held at REC Bar in Auckland. Hospitality industry professionals came in their droves, to witness eleven (11) of New Zealand’s finest bartenders battle it out at the last of the six (6) state finals across the Oceania region.
The guys at NOLA Smokehouse & Bar are helping to Make Rum Great Again with this drink — though we’re not sure that rum was ever not great, it’s all the excuse we need.
Sydney Bar Week returns in September this year, and for the first time we’ll have big industry events happening over five days.