We all know Funkin as a supplier of premium, top quality purees that offer consistent product each and every time you use them. Well, the fine folks at Funkin have now expanded their range in Australia to include a suite of handmade syrups too.
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The fine, French, gourmet syrup company 1883 Routin has made more of their syrups available in the country via Posipour.
Technology has been changing the world and now technology – in shiny new iPad form – will be applied to a new training program being launched by Pernod Ricard Australia, said Ben Davidson, their brand education manager.
Melbourne bartender Shaun Byrne has been getting a taste for vermouth – and so he ought to, given he’s spent a good five years at Melbourne’s venerable ginstitution, Gin Palace. Here he has teamed up with French winemaker Gilles Lapalus to bring bars their very own Australian vermouths.
New to the country this year are three brands from Challenger Beverages. They’re augmenting their Ron de Jeremy rum range with a new, spiced variant of the rum…
Well, thank goodness for the interGoogles. Never before have we had so many products to play with and often all it takes is a few clicks of the mouse – and then a lengthy wait for the product to cross the seas.
Scotch whisky gets a lot of the world’s attention in the global spirits market. But it’s not the only game in town and when it comes to mixing drinks and creating cocktails, bartenders seem to be turning to Irish whiskey more and more – partly due to its mixability (as we’ll see below) but also because it is a category that has been underdeveloped in Australia until recently, with the arrival of Redbreast and Writer’s Tears in addition to the forthcoming Green Spot.
Many a bartender in Australia has tried to track this brand down, often to no avail. Think Spirits have now secured distribution for these quality mezcals, of which a fair share of the attention given to mezcal these days can be attributed to.
It is the lone brand to come from the ‘whiskey bonding’ era in Ireland and will be more readily available in the coming months. A single pot still Irish whiskey, it is comprised of pot still whiskeys aged between 7 and 10 years.
The fine folk at Motel in Wellington have been making bitters for their own bar, then they started handing them around their friends’ bars, now they’re smuggling (OK, importing) them here, said bitterer Tom Egerton.
You know what you need more of in your life? Utah whiskey.
OK. Let’s get this straight from the beginning. Genever is not gin. Though gin was definitely based on the Dutch genever, genever has more in common with moonshine than it does gin.