Archive for December, 2010
Magic New LED System
If you were lucky enough to be at the pre-award drinks for this year’s Australian Bar Awards then you would probably have noticed the fantastic LED lighting systems that were glowing luminously throughout the foyer.
Mount Gay ‘Eclipse Silver’ Rum
Perfectly timed for summer release and assured to stay out of the shadows is Mt Gay’s Eclipse Silver. Fresh on the Australian scene this gentle and mellow white rum reveals subtle notes of cane sugar and banana on the nose and has an overall, harmonious complexity.
New Look Norfolk
James Miller (Sumo Salad and Ruby L’Otel) and James Wirth (Flinders Hotel and Duke) have joined forces to re-open Sydney’s Norfolk Hotel on Cleveland Street, Redfern.
Bacco Wine Bar Pasticceria
Housed within the auspiciously arched Romanesque walls of the historic QVB building is the second Italian offering from the team at Bacco. With the success and reputation of the original Chifley Plaza site comes their secondi, and brings with it a good little offering of cocktails, wine and food.
The 10 Most Influential Aussie Bars
People always ask me what are the best bars in the country and to be honest I find it one of the hardest questions to answer. A good bar, or a bar that you want to go to is mostly about personal taste and what might rock my boat could be completely distasteful to someone else.
Worst Bar Toilet….???
Recently in the UK a few bartenders (Jake Burger and Tim Stones) staged their own Alternate Bar Awards. We had such a laugh that we just had to pose these same questions to our 4bars readers!
Have a look at the categories below and if you think you know someone (or a venue) that should be [...]
Carafe Conundrums Solved
Nuance has listened to your carafe conundrums and has come up with an answer. Tired of wine carafes that spill their ice out in the first pour and which can’t be put through the dishwasher at the end of a long night with all the other glassware??
13B
The team has some serious experience behind them, sharing the likes of Hemmesphere, Iceburgs and Lotus on their resumes so you can bet they are on the money with this one.
Answers to Bartender Magazine’s December Gin Quiz
Did you test out your gin knowledge in the December issue of Bartender Magazine? If so…here are the answers. So now it’s time to see if you know what you’re talking about. GOOD LUCK!
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