With the weather outdoors getting warm there’s one thing most bartenders will turn to after a hot night behind the bar — and that’s an ice cold beer.
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There’s a a big industry bash to celebrate the release of Coors into the Aussie market next Thursday the 19th at the Coogee Bay Hotel (we hear they’re going to relieve a sweltering Sydney summer night with a bracing taste of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains and it’s a sight you won’t want to miss).
“It was quickly realised that alcohol was a preservative for spices, fruits, even humans such is the tale of the most famous ‘spiced’ rum of Nelson’s blood.”
With the festive — and busy — season upon us, you’re going to have more people than usual who don’t know their way around a bar or your wine list. Tom Hollings gives you some tips on what to recommend.
The iPad edition of our December issue is now live in the App Store. In this month’s issue:
Read this before you open a bar – Phil Bayly talks about the pitfalls you need to avoid to set up a successful bar…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.