Cocktails

14/04/2013

Looking for an excuse to imbibe cocktails every day this is a venture by Adam Elmegirab of Evo-lution Bar Consultancy (www.evo-lution.org) and Dr. Adam Elmegirab's Bitters (www.bokersbitters.co.uk) to recreate and rediscover the libations from Professor Jerry Thomas' 1862 Bartender's Guide, 'How to…

17/09/2012

In Sydney this Sunday? Get in and win a double pass to the Sydney Bar Show DrinksFest this Sunday!

I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the coming excellence that is Sydney Bar Week. For the first time the experience is open to the general public on Sunday the 23rd, and Dave Spanton has been kind...

28/08/2012

light reading for your next evening alone with your booze collection

17/08/2012

Bulletin Place is now closed.

Bulletin Place was a mecca for quality cocktails, liquor and wine ser

19/07/2012

Happy Daiquiri Day. Whether you have a preference for Havana, Club, Bacardi, Stolen or something else, here's how you need to whip yourself up a fabulous beverage this evening.

The BACARDI Daiquiri is the "all occasion" cocktail that fits every season and situation ---- from a party to a pre-dinner drink. It is deceptively simple. T...

17/07/2012

Global World Class Bartender Tim D Philips Tiki Serve. The Rum Cannonball.


Photo courtesy of www.addiechinn.com

05/07/2012

Blood Orange, Quina Fina and Tanq 10. What's your favourite tweak on a Gin & Tonic right now?

17/11/2011

It's times like these that I could really use a cocktail. What's everyone mixing tonight?

13/05/2010

It's World Cocktail Day! What are you going to drink tonight?

13/05/2010

has its very own day today. On the 13th of May in 1806, the word Cocktail appeared in print for the very first time. Thanks to the wonders of the interwebs, you can see that here:

08/04/2010

Amazing Gunpowder infused Rum being produced in Wellington, New Zealand.

So many unique spirits are produced far from the shark filled, reef bound seas of the Oceanic South Pacific. It seems like I’m constantly reading about a new candyfloss vodka in New York, Mezcal slipping over the border into SoCal or tiny batch production of frozen vacuum gin.

20/03/2010

Minted Bourbon Slushy, anyone?

Still working my way throughThe Fine Art of Mixing Drinks and stumbled into Julep country. Mr Embury has an obvious passion for the Bourbon Slushy so I thought I’d try my hand.