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Record Turn Out for The Bartender of the Year Competition - Top 20 Announced!

Record Turn Out for The Bartender of the Year Competition - Top 20 Announced!(0)

September 12, 2011

Today saw 94 of Australia’s top barkeeps sit a gruelling written exam to vie for a place in the Top 20 of the Bartender Magazine Bartender of the Year Competition sponsored by RESERVE.

Record Turn Out for The Bartender of the Year Competition - Top 20 Announced!
Angostura Cocktail Challenge Update

Angostura Cocktail Challenge Update

Australia’s leg of the global Angostura Cocktail Challenge is well under way thanks to a bumper turn out at the New South Wales state final on Monday night. Held at Sydney’s shrine to rum - La Bodeguita Del Medio - it was Rockpool Bar & Grill’s Neilsen Braid who proved he can stomach his bitters with the best of them by shrugging off the other competitors to take out the state title.

Win a trip to Trinidad with Angostura!

Win a trip to Trinidad with Angostura!

Angostura has announced that their Global Cocktail Challenge is set to become an annual event due to its increasing success on the Cocktail Competition circuit.

Appleton Estate Tiki Mug Competition

Appleton Estate Tiki Mug Competition

What does Tyawan, an Aboriginal witch doctor, a virgin Polynesian Princess called Loka Kemoa and Seamus Morgan, a former treacherous pirate of infamy, have in common? Easy. These three equally colourful characters were the finalists in the recent Appleton estate Tiki Mug competition that sought to bring out the wacky, encourage the bizarre and promote lunacy all in the name of creating immortality - and a damn cool tiki mug to boot.

Calling all Canberra bartenders!

Calling all Canberra bartenders!

Brown-Forman and Jack Daniel’s Gentleman Jack will be hosting a cocktail competition for the Canberra bartending community on the 1st August, 2011.
The Knightsbridge Penthouse will accommodate the local bartending fraternity and will see six finalists on the night battle it out for cash prizes through their own interpretations of the perfect Gentleman Jack serve.
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Tim Philips is World Class

Tim Philips is World Class

Last night saw the culmination of Reserve’s year long World Class program on Australian shores. And taking out top honours after three long days of fierce competition was Tim Philips from ivy’s Level 6 in Sydney. Runners-up in this epic bartending battle were Phil Gandevia of Sydney’s Eau De Vie and and Marco Nunes from Brisbane’s Canvas.

Bartender Magazine Bartender of the Year Competition

Bartender Magazine Bartender of the Year Competition

It’s that time of year again where we ask bartenders who think they’re worthy of their spiced Bloody Mary salt to step up to the plate and put themselves forward for Australia’s ultimate bartending challenge:


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