Chivas Regal’s global ambassador, Max Warner, was recently in Sydney hosting a tasting as part of Chivas’ Crafted For The Senses initiative. If you missed the tasting though, you’ll be pleased to know you can get all your whisky goodness on your iPad.
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Summer means that the annual boom in cider sales is upon us. Although it still accounts for just a small part of overall alcohol consumption in Australia, it is certainly on the way up, and ticks all the boxes of summer drinking: crisp, refreshing, sessionable stuff that will take you from the sunny afternoon to the stormy summer evening.
There’s a lot going on in Brazil. It’s one of the growing economic powerhouses of the world, it will host the Soccer World Cup in 2014 and then the big one, the Olympic games, will spread out across the country in 2016.
Not that Brazilians need much excuse to celebrate — they’ve kind of cornered the market in having a good time.
Vanguard Luxury Brands are bringing out Germany’s market leading herbal liqueur, Kuemmerling. The half bitter liqueur was created by a travelling chemist called Hugo Kuemmerling in 1938 and is made with “angelica, crisped mint, pimento, liquorice, wormwood, resin of guaiac, cinnamon bark and calamus.”
Suntory Australia have announced that they are taking on the Australian distribution of the iconic Zubrowka vodka as of February 1 2014.
Last night saw the big trade launch celebrating the arrival of Coors into Australia. Some 350 guests from throughout the Sydney drinks industry gathered at the Coogee Bay Hotel for the party, which saw the Coors Explorers (resplendent in icicle-lade beards and frost-bitten faces, no less) bursting from Coors beer fridges in a blizzard of snow and abseiling into the venue from up on high.
A group of Sydney bartenders were treated to a whip around Sydney harbour (and outside the heads) on the Old Pulteney Clipper and checked out four fantastic expressions of what is known as the maritime malt…
It’s that time of year again: the lads from Melbourne’s Black Pearl are parading their pastiest parts, showing off their bartender tan and stuffing santa hats with their swizzling sticks in their 2014 calendar.
Patron’s XO Café has been a big hit with punters, and now they’re releasing a dark cocoa version of the popular tequila liqueur.
We’ve been talking a lot about Four Pillars Rare Dry Gin recently and with good reason: not only is it small batch, Australian-made and using ingredients like Tasmanian pepperberry leaf, it is also just really good juice.
Even just five years ago, spiced rum — not to mention spiced whiskey — was a rarity in the Australian market. But Mojo Record Bar’s Daniel Noble points out people have been flavouring their hooch with spices for a long time…
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.