Yellow Goat Design specializes in unique and quirky lighting designs, and there could be something in their range to suit your Private Dining Room or VIP lounge area. While trying to set a ‘mood’ with your lighting, you could also set a trend for having the best lighting around town. From the ‘Droplet’ range, each one of these single drop pendants is built up of individual opal acrylic donuts layered one on top of the other. With the CFL light-source just peeking out of the bottom they are a very cool idea and designer Conrad Johnsson has done exceptionally well to achieve such an aesthetically pleasing piece.

Alternatively, the ‘Floppy’ design has layers of precisely cut acrylic ovals stacked in a mathematical sequence dictated by computer, giving this gorgeous piece a hard won soft randomness. According to the Yellow Goat team the seamless ‘randomness’ was not hard to achieve - “We just threw them together!” Creating a perfectly balanced visual spectacle that would suit an intimate lounge area providing it with soft lighting and a trendy feel.

For further information please contact Yellow Goat Design on 07 5532 8659

This new product was featured in Bartender’s December issue

With more 90 years of experience, Monin has become a brand consistently associated with amazing flavours that are essential on any back bar. The creative team behind the innovative range is still producing with Tiramisu and Crème Brulee flavours now available. With a wonderfully complex profile that shows melted mocha, dark chocolate, nuts, espresso and creamy mocha Monin Tiramisu should be a great addition to any cocktail list and the Crème Brulee work equally as well in an after dinner style cocktail.

Andrew Yiu, Culinary Manager at Monin says of the Tiramisu: “The product has a creamy Tiramisu taste with a lovely hint of Mocha and Tropical nuts after taste. Combine it with a dash of whipped cream and you will have a delicious flavour Tiramisu cream.”

For further information please contact Posi Pour on 07 5563 2599

This product was featured in Bartender’s December issue

Russian Standard Vodka has recently introduced a new, premium product to its fine portfolio: Russian Standard Gold. Described as ‘the perfect vodka for life’s golden moments’, it is now available in Australia. Russian Standard Gold is created with the same unreserved passion for exemplary quality that is taken with all of Russian Standard’s range and features a unique combination of Dmitry Mendeleev’s classic vodka formula as well as carefully selected extracts of Siberian ginseng. This complex and classic vodka will be sure to add vigor and vitality to celebrations. The Siberian ginseng extract affords this premium vodka an exceptionally smooth finish, sweet flavours of vanilla and hints of cinnamon. This latest offering from Russian Standard compliments an identified trend in consumer desire for more premium vodkas. “Research shows that the desire for premium vodka is strong amongst Australian consumers,” states Andrew Skehan, Senior Brand Business Manager for Beam Global, “And we will continue to address this by offering a new standard of excellence.”

For further information please contact CCA on 132 653

This new bar was featured in Bartender’s November issue.

194 Commercial Rd, Prahan, Melbourne
03 9533 6352
www.marmaladebar.com.au

Within a cobbler glass throw of Melbourne pumping Chapel St is the sweet little wine and cocktail bar named Marmalade. Hamish Goonetilleke, owner of the new venture invites you down to kick back on the vintage chesterfield in out open front bar and watch as the world rushes by. “It’s been an amazing few weeks since opening and we are all really pumped! The people, the venue, the staff are all coming along really well,” Goonetilleke states.

The bar features unique stenciled/ graffiti styled artworks - done by some of Melbourne’s most noted street artists: HA-HA, Drew Funk and Doyle. And not to be out out by Melbourne’s sometimes pedantic weather, the team has build an ‘all seasons’ beer garden complete with an impressively sized palm tree. Come the weekends, the beer garden will also play host to some of Melbourne’s hottest musicians, bringing live entertainment back to the old school backyard scene.

Grab some pizzas or antipasto plates and settle in with a few jugs of beer or really well priced wine by the glass. And yes there are cocktails served in marmalade jars too.

This Drinks News item was featured in Bartender Magazine’s November issue.

October 2010 saw the highly anticipated new Appleton Estate Rum Tiki campaign take off. Although long associated with tiki, this is the third year that Appleton Estate has designed their own, customised Tiki mug for bartenders. The Appleton Tiki mug has received an almost cult following and can be seen to grace many of the top bars and bartender’s homes around Australia. This year’s design of the ‘Appleton Rum God’ is set to again live up to all tiki expectations.

Designed and manufactured by Tiki Farm’s Holden Westland and Appleton Estate, “the mug far surpasses previous designs,” Holden’s explained. At time of deadline only a model was available for release. To be among the first in Australia to secure your bar’s order of the mugs for this year’s Tiki season, email your bar’s name and address to the Appleton estate website and let us know what you’ll be doing to celebrate Tiki this year by visiting www.appletonestate.com

This new bar was featured in Bartender Magazine’s November issue.
383 Bourke Street, Sydney
www.wearelofi.com.au

The former site of The Middle Bar has undergone a drastic makeover to become LO-FI. The design team at Luchetti Krelle (responsible for the recently successful King’s Vault pop up wine bar) has completely revamping the old venue stripping back the interior to expose original foundations. The newly shed space will serve as a pop up art space, serving a snazzy selection of classic and contemporary cocktails for the remainder of 2010 - although hopefully with out a replay of Tom Cruise’s famous art gallery meltdown in the 1980s hit movie Cocktail.

The team is offering a serious list of drinks, with over 40 of histories best concoctions available. The Martinez, Hemmingway Daiquiri, French 75 or Mimosa could set you up for an elegant evening of classical artistic perusing or you could get your hands on something a bit more contemporary like a Mojito or Forbidden Fruit Foam, with passion fruit, cloudy apple juice mixed with lime, vodka and topped with an apple elderflower foam.

This new bar was featured in Bartender Magazine’s November issue.
91-93 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
03 9663 2800
www.papagoose.com.au/

Inspired by a children’s nursery rhyme, Papa Goose is a new offering on the already jam packed Flinders Lane, Melbourne. Chef and Owner Neale White and his designer brother Lance White have created a stylish new venue with an industrial core based around steel beams, heavy wood and exposed air conditioning units. Visible fire stairs along with other trendy fit out features have people thinking it’s their own little piece of New York. Alison Hulm (General Manager) describes the new venture as; “A stylish, up-market venue in a superb location. It is great for an after work drink or a complete night out.”

“Papa Goose is attracting young professionals, foodies, Gen X and those who are in the know.” Hulm states.

The drinks selection is wide ranging with a large selection of premium spirits and 18 wines by the glass. The cocktails are suited for a dining experience, as well as just lounging about - and there is Grolsch beer on tap. Andrew Knox (previously from Oyster and Hairy Canary) and Mark Walton (former Emerald Peacock bar keep) have sussed out the crowd and put together a tight little cocktail selection - the favourite at the moment is the Papa Pedro; a sure fire digestive mix of Pedro Ximenez, Chilli Chocolate, Toussaint and Noilly Prat.

There is contemporary French/ modern Australian food on offer with White bringing his extensive experience to the fore making food best described as “Food that you just want to eat.” The Loose Goose bar offers a small but still serious selection of tapas style plates, giving you some grazing opportunities if you want to settle in for a few drinks and listen to the featured vinyl albums on play.

For more than 40 years now, Les Vergers Boiron has been selecting and carefully processing the best fruit grown in the finest regions around the world specifically for the most demanding professionals. Now available in Australia Les Vergers Boiron offer red fruits, fruits of the orchard, citrus fruits and tropical fruits in their complete range of frozen fruits, fruit purees and fruit coulis. Les Vergers Boiron insist that “Their intense and 100% natural products will make the difference for your clients.” Their secret; an unrivalled strong and natural fresh fruit flavour and authentic colour. Simple to use your able to let your imagination run wild with creative cocktails. You will also be able to sample these amazing purees at Sydney BarShow 2010.

For further information please visit www.lesvergersboiron.com

Please call:

NSW Deshel Foods 02 9981 446

WA/SA Eustralis Food Co. 08 9377 0377

VIC Creative Ingredients 03 9388 8999

Hawthorn Brewing Company is the dream of three friends from Melbourne: Peter Willis, Hamish Reed and Darren Milo. The trio acknowledge that: “We’ve come a long way since we began home brewing for ourselves and our mates at BBQ’s more than 10 years ago.”

The company was established in 2008 with the aim of bringing great tasting recipes to the thirsty masses. This particular formulation took 11 trials (and apparently just as much taste testing) to finalise. Produced at the Mildura Brewery the group have tried to avoid their beer being yet another bottle conditioned American pale ale, so their recipe is an unusual mix of New and Old World hops. The result is a pale ale that presents a rich and complex malt character, derived from a bold blend of five different types of lightly kilned grain balanced by the by the inclusion of five complementary varieties of hops sourced from New Zealand, Southern England and the US Pacific Northwest.

Plans are afoot for a second and third brew to be released this year.

For further information please contact Flinders Portfolio on 1800 886 060

Alchemia is the latest edition to Australia’s premium vodka segment. Distributed by Pure Spirits, Alchemia Polish Vodka has been recently released onto the Australian market after years of strong sales the US, Canada and New Zealand. Alchemia’s distinctive infusion range takes its triple distilled rye-grain vodka and saturates it with all natural ingredients. A further six months maceration in oak barrels results in an authentic rich colouring and flavour. Alchemia’s range includes Cyzsta - a soft, sweet and supple pure vodka, Wisniowa - a rich wild cherry variant, Czekoladowa - a full bodied chocolate and Imbirowa - a spicy, candied ginger. All the flavours are presented in distinctive hand-blown packaging.

For further information please contact Pure Spirits on 02 9371 3883