We discovered aging by accident. Long before Coffey patented/nicked the idea for a continuous still, our forefathers found a way to make rough liquor taste better – barrels.
Tag: Philip Duff
I promise this won’t be another bullshit piece about how we should all throw away our mobile phones and go back to the days when an evening’s entertainment consisted of standing around the piano singing vaudeville songs before a spot of light incest and some pipe smoking.
Famously, no matter how beguiling a living goddess like Angelina Jolie might appear, there are a score of chaps (and quite a few ladies, from what we understand) who are tired of putting up with her shit. Nothing lasts forever; not love, freshly squeezed lemon juice – or passion.
Not long ago, while sailing on the electric Interweb, a wee notice caught my eye. Among the many other internet advertisments promising to enlarge (or reduce) parts of my body I myself consider to be perfectly formed and correctly proportioned, this one was about a spirits competition.
Bars are immeasurably better now that women are as welcome in them as men which is a development of recent occurrence.
It’s been a long time coming. Once upon a time, signature drinks, or cocktails, or food dishes, were things you could only get in one restaurant, or perhaps one chain of restaurants, or from one chef. Ramos Gin Fizzes, Brambles, Lamb Cutlets Reform ( a la Soyer), TGI Fridays’ Jack Daniels Grill and Nobu Matsuhisa’s black cod are all examples of signature serves. Everyone can imitate these serves in any bar you like, but even an oxygen thief knows that you should have at least one Penicillin straight from Sam Ross, or a Tommy’s from Julio Bermejo. Done right, signature serves rock.
The entries for Schweppes’ Australia’s Best G&T competition are set to close this Sunday. Schweppes has asked bartenders to take the classic G&T and use their genius to create something special – Australia’s Best G&T.
The search for Australia’s best G&T is kicking off this month! Schweppes wants bartenders to take the classic G&T and add 1 part creativity, 1 part presentation and 1 part story, to make something not quite old and not quite new, but really quite incredible: Australia’s best G&T.
The slide show from Philip Duff’s and Jim Meehan’s presentation at Sydney BarShow on speed, efficiency and finances for the modern speakeasy.
The French Gin brand G’Vine has developed a global program with the help of Door 74’s Philip Duff. The company is searching for 12 finalists from around the globe which they will then fly to France (Cognac and Paris) for a week of gin inspired challenges.
Bartender magazine ‘Internationalist’ contributor, Philip Duff, is not just a man of many witty words…