Quinquinas. These under-appreciated, herbal, bitter wine-based drinks might seem a little dowdy, but they pack a lot of flavour. Oh, and they are downright delicious when mixed, like in this Dubonnet Cocktail.
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Lift open the lid on most mainstream beers and what you’ll find is pretty good; but it is also pretty tame. You’ll get some combination of various proportions of malted barley, hops and water. And most will taste very much the same. But some brewers are doing things a little bit differently.
Sydney’s HOME nightclub has undergone a little but if a revamp thanks to their longstanding partners, Red Bull, through the Red Bull Curates program.
The partnership goes back some time, with the nightclub (which opened in 1998) being Red Bull’s first Australian on-premise account.
Sydney Bar Week. That wonderful time of year when the cream of our glorious industry converge in our country’s only significant city to celebrate our finest sons & daughters for their contribution to the year been. But often as we are wowed buy the technical grace and encyclopedic prowess of some we forget the true warriors of this fair trade. The characters, jokers and raconteurs who don’t just make up the numbers but bring us the colour & music needed to fill our bustling drinking halls with life.
Much has been made of the resurgence of cocktails — but is the boom over? Has the cocktail moment passed? And if not, where’s it going to next?
Monday night saw the NSW round of the Angostura Global Cocktail Competition kick off at Miss Peaches, with Luke Redington of Hello Sailor taking out the honours.
The night that you have been waiting all year for is almost here… It’s the 2013 Bar Awards and that means, it’s after party time!
The put it in your mouth boys (Andy Penney & Rossco Charman) are back, and this year the theme is PROM NIGHT.
Sydney’s Oxford Street is set to get a fresh injection of tikitastic escapism when The Cliff Dive, a new bar from the boys from Tio’s, opens in late October. Located on Oxford Square in the space which housed the Gaff (and earlier, Rogues), The Cliff Dive is drawing on tiki influence from Australia’s near neighbours in PNG and East Timor.
Regular Bartender contributor Nick Reed has left his post running the bar at venerable Melbourne cocktailing institution, 1806, to return to his hometown of Geelong and set up his own bar.
Well, what Brisbane’s rockabilly scene has lost, their whisky drinkers have certainly gained. Owners Asa Boardman, Trent Goodwin, and Martin Lange (Sling) have turned what was once a rockabilly hairdresser into a bastion of whisky in the heart of the West End.
Lucky are those bartenders that start behind the bar these days. Not only do they have a cornucopia of cocktailing ingredients, they’re also coming up in a world in which fine glassware, elegant bar tools and a wealth of affordable cocktail book reprints are a given. That’s in no small part to guys like Greg Boehm, who’s New York-based company, Cocktail Kingdom, has been synonymous with cracking cocktailing gear. We talk to Greg Boehm about how Cocktail Kingdom came about, and his plans to build the business in Australia.
After a huge number of entries, island2island have narrowed it down to the top six competitors in each state, and we’ve got them listed here. And just to remind you about what’s at stake for this comp, the team at Angostura and island2island have got a whopping $10,000 in cash money and a trip to sunny Trinidad for the winner of the national final.