If you were lucky enough to be at the pre-award drinks for this year’s Australian Bar Awards then you would probably have noticed the fantastic LED lighting systems that were glowing luminously throughout the foyer.
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Perfectly timed for summer release and assured to stay out of the shadows is Mt Gay’s Eclipse Silver. Fresh on the Australian scene this gentle and mellow white rum reveals subtle notes of cane sugar and banana on the nose and has an overall, harmonious complexity.
Nuance has listened to your carafe conundrums and has come up with an answer. Tired of wine carafes that spill their ice out in the first pour and which can’t be put through the dishwasher at the end of a long night with all the other glassware??
When Jonathon Worner, Design Director at Alloy, was asked by Coca Cola to design his version of the ultimate in bottle openers he set about investigating the idea with vigor.
This book might have been as hard to locate as an illegal whisky bothy buried in the Scottish Highlands but when you get your hands on it (and not quite such a challenge these days with Amazon.com) it reaps rewards in the stories it holds and the prose with which it is told.
Prosecco describes not only the style of the wine but also the grape varietal used and Victoria’s King Valley wine region is a home away from home for many Italian grape varietals.
October 2010 saw the highly anticipated new Appleton Estate Rum Tiki campaign take off. Although long associated with tiki, this is the third year that Appleton Estate has designed their own, customised Tiki mug for bartenders.
Chambord, the iconic black raspberry liqueur that has been a stalwart on the back bar shelf is set to show of its new ‘Blinging’ look with a newly released contemporary design.
With new laws restricting bars to the use of plastic glassware only at certain times the challenge now for manufacturers is to produce a quality plastic product worthy of high quality cocktails.
This book review was published in Bartender’s October 2010 issue A collaboration from some of…
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