There’s no secret that drinking leads to everything from little lies to egregious exaggeration; but perhaps there’s no stories quite like those that sprung up around the tall tales of tiki culture.
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Here’s something to give you a good chuckle. This short flick from Schweppes’ Cocktail Revolution shows a small country pub, The Old Hepburn Hotel (which has been keeping locals watered for 100 years) as they switch off the beer taps and shake up some cocktails for their regulars. Understandably, some of the reactions are quite amusing.
In our June issue, publisher Dave Spanton took a trip through Oaxaca as part of his agave spirit tour with the incomparable Phil Bayly and Tomas Estes. Oaxaca obviously is all about the mezcal, and he checked in with the mezcal that has done so much to popularise the spirit, Del Maguey Single Village Mezcals.
It might be a dreary, wintery Tuesday, but there’s nothing like a little competitive cooking show fun to brighten your day.
Leeroy “just like Tom Cruise in the movie Cocktail” Petersen and Barry “round of applause for the beard” Chalmers square off in the bloodsport that is Ready Steady Cook.
Bartenders, prepare to be put on notice. We have seen the future, and there’s no place for your rubbish chat and drink-guzzling, drink-slinging inefficiency. There’s no place for a heavy pour of free drinks with that pretty girl you want to get off with.
There’s something inescapably rustic about tequila. It’s more in the idea than the product itself. Although the spirit itself is capable of being a rareified, elegant spirit — and often is — so much of the imagery around it brings everything back to the haciendas and agave fields of Mexico — a dusty, dilapidated glamour it has made all its own.
You don’t turn down an invitation to tour Mexico’s distileries with Tomas Estes and Phil Bayly. David Spanton got the rundown on some of the best distilleries in Tequila and in Oaxaca in our May issue; check out what he found at Casa Noble’s La Cofradia distillery below.
Got nothing to do for the next two and a half minutes? Of course you do. Or, you could check out the slick video of new Newtown soul food and drink shack, Miss Peaches, like we did.
They’ve also announced that that from next Thursday their new house blues band, Ray Beadle and the Silver Dollars, will take the stage, giving you Sydneysiders just one more reason to head to Newtown for all your food and drink needs.
What is a Jimador? Find out exactly what Jimador is, and check out the video on how they go about their work…
You don’t turn down an invitation to tour Mexico’s distileries with Tomas Estes and Phil Bayly. David Spanton got the rundown on some of the best distilleries in Tequila and in Oaxaca in our May issue; check out what he found at Olmeca distillery below.
Owned by 5th generation family member Guillermo Erickson Sauza, the grandson of Javier Sauza who in 1976 sold the Sauza distillery. What wasn’t part of that deal was this 100-year-old disused and run down distillery site just a stone’s throw from their old family distillery
In 1870 the Felix Lopez family officially registered and started crafting their tequilas on this historic site in Amatitan, Jalisco just a short drive out of the town of Tequila. Herradura (horseshoe) would be one of, if not the most picturesque distillery in Mexico.