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VIDEO: Tales of the Cocktail with The Liquid Muse

Check out this interview with Ann Tuennerman at the 7th Annual Tales of the Cocktail which is currently underway in New Orleans. You will have your chance to hear Ann speak at this year’s Sydney BarShow.

CLASSIC: Corpse Reviver (No. 2)

Designed as a ‘pick me up’ or hangover cure as, as the name suggests, the Corpse Reviver No. 2 is a once forgotten ‘classic’ that has returned from the land of the long dead cocktail with a vengeance. This well balanced beverage has a delicate harmony of flavours that is proving to be popular once again amongst the cocktailian set.

Launch of Big Rig Diner at Ruby Rabbit

Big Rig Diner at Ruby Rabbit officially opened for business last week with a bumper launch party. Head chef Zachary Sykes created a fantastic sampler menu for last night’s launch which included mini Big Rig hotdogs with spicy sausage, caramelised onion, brie and tomato chilli jam. To wash it all down guests enjoyed punchy margaritas from El Jimador, Jack Daniels cocktails and Miller beer.

Zeta’s Vintage Nights

Grant Collins and the Zeta boys have transformed Zeta’s VIP Room to host several special “Vinatage Nights” over the remaining winter months until 9 August.

Bar Convent Berlin Makes Hat-trick

Germany will see the third gathering of its bar industry this October at Bar Convent Berlin. The most influentual bar show in Central Europe will see a great line-up of speakers again with whisky guru Dave Broom, Ritz legend Colin Field from Paris and the Japanese ‘master of ice’ Hidetsugu Ueno passing on their knowledge among others.

CLASSIC: The Brooklyn Cocktail

Of the five boroughs of New York City, history has only neglected poor old Staten Island when it comes to having a cocktail named after it. Of the other four we have all heard of the Manhattan and a few more of us might know a Bronx, but what about The Queens Cocktail and The Brooklyn?

COCKTAILS: The Wet Martini

The dryness of a martini is determined by the amount of extra dry vermouth used – ironically, the less extra dry vermouth the more dry the martini. If we go back in time, we will find many incarnations of the famed Martini and the further we go, the more vermouth is used.

Melbourne Temperance Society: World’s Best Signatures II

After the resounding success of April’s Death & Company session, it is our great pleasure to announce the second installment in The Melbourne Temperance Societies current Worlds Best Signature Cocktails series as the Der Raum team will once again turn their hands to the unique creations of one of the world’s most highly renowned cocktail venues.