The program supports and facilitates bartenders to exchange places with their contemporaries from bars across the country and the world. From menu takeovers, to pop-up bar swaps and special guests, the Bartender Exchange showcases the very best in bartending talent and the latest drinks trends from the outstanding Australian bartending community.
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Inside the creative process at the world’s number one bar, Dandelyan
Dandelyan’s Wheeler and Meredith give us an insight into how they put together the latest Dandelyan menu, one which has garnered attention around the world.
Enter your drink into The Perfect Blend now — entries close in less than 2 weeks
The prize: The ultimate bartenders trip!?A winner from each category will travel across the globe to the home of Bourbon, Kentucky visiting the distilleries Maker’s Mark and Jim beam —receiving the VIP treatment along the way, then off to Bar Convent Brooklyn in New York, experiencing some of the world’s best bars and the winners will carry the legacy as mentors for future master blenders.
With an exciting new prize, The Perfect Blend 2019 is now open for entries
Returning for another year, with a new challenge and an exciting new prize: The Perfect Blend 2019.
Here’s Iain Griffiths on what makes a great collaboration, ahead of the upcoming Dandelyan tour
This month The Blends of the World partners with Dandelyan, and the tour is about to kick off in WA as the first stop. Without getting all geeky and too OTT, the menu for the Dandelyan tour is imaginative, inimitable and darn tasty — get a behind the scenes look at how the tour comes together.
This is what the winning drinks at The Perfect Blend 2018 look like (and we’ve got the recipes)
One big focus of The Perfect Blend this year has been on sustainability. In Byron Bay, the competitors would have to not just make drinks that incorporated second-use ingredients to minimise waste whilst bringing the maximum in taste, they also received some wisdom in how to incorporate sustainability within their own lives through their early morning yoga workshop.
Here’s Tim Pope’s winning recipe, Shingetsu
Here’s the winning drink from the Apprentice category of The Perfect Blend 2018 from Tim…
Kurtis Bosley’s Ushirokara
Here’s the winning drink from the Professional category of The Perfect Blend 2018 from Public House Management Group’s Kurtis Bosley.
These are the winners of The Perfect Blend 2018
Byron Bay, Northern NSW: it’s a place, sure, but it’s also a state of mind.…
Find out how Dandelyan develops their menus and more
Get a sense of what to expect when Will Meredith and Jack Banks from Dandelyan hit our shores in August. They will be taking the industry on a journey of what is Dandelyan, its innovative menu creation, the behind the scenes of their day to day, all things Botany, and the practices of a great team.