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With a new name and a renewed dedication to good times for a good cause, the former Parched March is back – as Bars March.
For the first time in some 19 years, Australia is going to see an extension of the Chartreuse family of liqueurs with the addition of three new products.
These top training programs can give you more tools to work with, greater knowledge to share, and most of importantly — these programs will show you a good time in the process.
The board of Japanese company Suntory has agreed to buy Beam Inc, in a deal reportedly worth some US$16 billion. Reuters is reporting that Suntory, which owns Yamazaki, Bowmore and Midori among a host of other brands, made the decision yesterday after just two months of negotiations with Beam Inc.
Suntory Australia have announced that they are taking on the Australian distribution of the iconic Zubrowka vodka as of February 1 2014.
This month Australian Bartender takes the Blind Tasting on the road, and we rallied the panel — including Enrique’s School for Bullfighting’s James Connolly, Rockpool Bar & Grill Perth’s David Nguyen-Luu and Tim Wastell, Five Bar’s Andy McIntyre, Bobeche’s Joe Sinagra, Luxe Bar’s Simon Hough and from our host bar, Varnish on King, Tim Sponberg — for a tasting of aged rum.
Over 350 people gathered at Sydney’s Hugos Lounge to witness the five state finalists of Suntory’s Cocktail Connoisseur competition shake, stir and mix it up against one another. At stake was bragging rights and a once in a lifetime trip to Japan with a cool $1000 cash in spending money.
There was a time when the mark of a cocktail bar was the line of fluro-coloured liqueur bottles sitting on the back bar. You can scoff, nowadays with your amari and small batch organic moonshine, but they’re there in old photos of the Bayswater Brasserie and in top bars around the country. It was a thing, man.
Rockpool Bar & Grill Perth’s bartender, James Connolly, took out the national final of the Gin Mare Mediterranean Inspirations competition last week, and in the process bagged a trip to Ibiza to compete and the global final, to be held in September.