Since its launch in the US in 1995, the Blue Moon Belgian White Belgian-style wheat ale has grown in popularity (these days you’ll be sure to find the flavoursome beer on tap in pretty much every airport bar across the country) and served to help ignite the interest in non-mainstream styles of beer there. Now, as part of CCA’s efforts to get back into beer in a big way, Blue Moon can be found across Australia.
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Well it’s an opening we’ve been waiting for all year and now the time has come. Papa Jack’s, the new bar from Marco and Emily Nunes (one half of the four owners who set up the influential Brisbane bar, Canvas) is open for business.
This distinctive rum from the Philippines is one you’ll remember and is now available through icon Beverages
Come January 2, 2014, while most bartenders are still likely recovering from NYE hangovers, Bacardi Lion will take on the distribution of Magners cider and launch its sister brand, Gaymers onto the Aussie market.
Newcastle is getting in on the small bar act with the opening of new bar, MoenyPenny…
The Brisbane bartending community gathered together a few weeks back at Martin Lange’s Cobbler to getteir Rematch!!! Beeyatch!!! on. We’ve just had this little video of the night’s festivities come across our desks and thought it was well worth a share.
The Cricketers Arms Lager has been one of the favourites round the Bartender offices for its easy drinking appeal. Well they’ve added two new players to the team: the Indian Pale Ale and the Mid On.
The Mornington Peninsula already has plenty of pulling power: you’ve got lush countryside, ocean, and great wines. And now you’ve got the relaxed bar environment to enjoy all of this bounty at The Deck in Frankston.
Mezcal Amores is Mexico’s third biggest selling mezcal, and is now being brought into Australia by Mextrade. It is 100 per cent organic and wholly handcrafted in Oaxaca from the espadin agave.
WA bar manager Ben Tua is opening up his own bar with Mechanics Institute owners Hamish Fleming and Siobhan Blumann. We asked Ben about his plans for the place.
This month Australian Bartender takes the Blind Tasting on the road, and we rallied the panel — including Enrique’s School for Bullfighting’s James Connolly, Rockpool Bar & Grill Perth’s David Nguyen-Luu and Tim Wastell, Five Bar’s Andy McIntyre, Bobeche’s Joe Sinagra, Luxe Bar’s Simon Hough and from our host bar, Varnish on King, Tim Sponberg — for a tasting of aged rum.
Long time Brooklyn resident, booze historian and author of the oft-quoted Imbibe! and Punch: the Delights (and Dangers) of the Flowing Bowl, Dave Wondrich, has teamed up with New York Distilling Company to produce this distinctive new gin, the Chief Gowanus New-Netherlander gin.