Suntory Australia has recently taken over the Bitter Truth range of bespoke cocktail bitters.
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Need some sensational flavours to partner your top cocktail creations? The fruits and vegetables used in Les Vergers Boiron purees are selected from the best growing areas and picked when at their optimum level of ripeness. All products are 100 per cent natural, using no added colourings, flavourings thickeners or preservatives.
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Bundaberg Rum, one of Australia’s iconic spirits, has recently released the Master Distillers’ Collection. The first limited release for the series, Bundaberg 10 Year Old Rum, has been watchfully matured under the talented eye of Bundaberg’s Master Distiller. Their new release showcases the quality of distilling at Bundaberg Rum, and the heavy glass decanter that it is sealed under, further showcases the quality of the rum inside.
Pocket sized and packed to the brim with helpful suggestions for when you next visit Melbourne, Melbourne’s Bars and Pubs – is a great little guide that’ll keep you busy for more than a weekend of bar hopping when you are next in town.
This wee cocktail volume comes from owners of New York’s hugely successful Employees Only – a modern speakeasy style venue. With Dale DeGroff and David Wondrich having written the forward and afterword respectively you can be sure that this book is of fine pedigree.
Samuel Smith & Son have recently launched a new, premium gin into the Australian market. No.3 London Dry Gin is infused with three fruits and three spices, a combination that is believed to be ‘all that was deemed essential to the flavour of No.3 London Dry Gin’. Italian Juniper, with notes of pine and lavender; Sweet Spanish orange peel that gives freshness, and clean crisp acidity and Grapefruit peel to add ‘extra zingy lift’.
“Fermented in anything we can find, for as long as we can wait,” is the mantra of this latest craft brew to appear on the ever widening market. Doss Blockos has a strong cult association with the New York culture of underground living, when squatters were fighting hard for their right to squat and developers were fighting hard to have them removed. The modern brew is packaged up in a paper bar, testament to the fact that if you wanted to drink on the streets you had to cover up your tipple. With a 4.6% abv, this Pale Ale is described as a ‘smooth, premium style brew’. Brewed in the traditional Lager way and showing full malty flavours that are balanced with a mild hop bitterness. This brew is one for easy drinking, and its fresh crisp taste will ensure that you’re keen to grab another
The team at Yellow Goat Design have come up with a few more lighting beauties to help jazz up your trendy little night spot. These gems, named ‘Shrinkage’, use a simple powder coated wire frame to show off a whole range of sleek prints, in almost innumerable sizes, shapes and available graphics.
The much sort after Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum, the authentic, old-school Caribbean rum, was launched in Australia in January through William Grant & Sons. Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum bears the signature of Norman “Sailor Jerry” Collins because it celebrates Norman “Sailor Jerry” Collins’ old school values of independence, hard work and unyielding standards of craftsmanship.
Ilegal Mezcal is now available in Australia, bringing a small piece of Oaxaca to your bar for everyone to share. To drink Mezcal is to enter the ritual of Oaxaca. The two are inseparable and one leads inevitably to the other. Ilegal Mezcal is a hand crafted, small batch Mezcal and made with both pride and reverence to a culture.
Monopolowa Dry Gin is a superbly smooth gin and would be a connoisseur’s delight. Produced in a traditional manner, this unique gin uses the highest quality, triple distilled rectified spirits that are obtained from special varieties of potatoes, and a special and unique blend of the finest and choicest traditional natural gin ingredients (including juniper berries, orange and lemon peels, coriander, anise, fennel and ginger).