4bars.com.au caught up with Merlin during his visit to Australian shores in August. This is a full transcript of that interview.
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The Australian Beer Festival, now in its fifth year of operation, brings together a wonderful array of Australian boutique beers in one place for all to see. It is not just a weekend for beer enthusiasts, but rather the beer curious, for those who are too scared to take the plunge into the exciting world of Aussie boutique beers; this is exactly the push they need to become an aficionado.
On Monday 12 October Merlin Jerebine from Melbourne’s 1806 created this year’s greatest mix at the 21st annual Suntory Cup cocktail competition.
barmenus.com offers bars, restaurants and nightclubs a free online cocktail menu generator. No more menus that look like a school project with random clipboard images – the barmenus.com templates are professional, cohesive, sophisticated. You can even put your venue logo on your menu!
Presented during Sydney BarShow Week, the Bartender Magazine Australian Bar Awards saw more than 600 Aussie bar industry leaders plus a host of international guests attend a ritzy gala dinner at the Hilton hotel on September 23. A great night and a big party for all those in attendance. Check out all the social pics from this year’s awards.
Appleton Estate, the highly awarded, premium Jamaican Rum that brought the enormously popular ‘Maile Ku’ Tiki mug to Australia in 2008 has upped the ante this year by commissioning ‘Crazy Al’ Evans, one of the greatest Tiki sculptors in the world to create it’s new ‘Rum God’ Tiki mug picture above.
Owned by brother and sister team Elizabeth and Frank Samia, Alria is a waterside wine bar that’s all about good booze, food, and tunes without leaving a large hole in your hip pocket.
There are few Champagne cocktails that have enjoyed the success that this little number has; a gin infused libation named after the French 75-mm field gun. This quick-firing field artillery piece is recognised as being the first technological weapons advancement of the 20th century with its long recoil mechanism which kept the gun’s trail and wheels perfectly still during the firing sequence meaning it need not be re-aimed after each shot. The French 75 could deliver fifteen rounds per minute on its target up to a range of approximately 8,500 meters.
As part of the City of Sydney’s ‘Laneway Revitalisation’ program October 1, 2009, till January 31, 2010, will mark ‘Laneways By George’ a public art program which amongst other things will see a bar pop up on Underwood Street in Sydney’s CBD.
The leaders of the drinks industry, both local and international, descended on Sydney for the eighth instalment of Sydney BarShow; a week of networking events creating Australia’s largest and most respected bar industry trade event!
The 2009 Australian Bartender Magazine Bartender of the Year Competition (sponsored by Club Suntory) brought out the best of Australian bartending talent in a competition that tested their knowledge of the backbar with a gruelling written exam, their ability to serve a custromer, their savvy at identifying the ingredients in a cocktail in a blind tasting and their skill at presenting and creating two signature cocktails to a panel of esteemed critics.
Russian Standard kicked off a series of nationwide launch parties with a bash at Sydney’s World Square Pub. Here are some snaps from the night…