INTERVIEW: Fraser Short on the NSW Top 48 Hotels

Fraser Short from Keystone Hospitality explains how the 2am lockout has affected Cargo bar, why the rules are unfair and offers some alternative ways to deal with alcohol-related violence.

Vectron’s Wireless Pourers

Times are tough and booze wastage is an issue you shouldn’t have to contend with. Vectron’s has released new Compact Wireless Pourers mounted on each bottle to compare every shot of alcohol that flows through your bar to your POS records. You can identify where and when wastage and slippage occurs and get up to the minute [...]

Best of Bartender Magazine - some of the best pix from the mag from the last ten years

To celebrate 10 years and 100 issues of Bartender magazine, we screened this selection of shots from our archives at our recent birthday party. We thought you might like to take a look (and have a giggle at how we’ve all aged!!)…

Bartender Magazine Celebrates 10 years & 100 issues

Bartender magazine celebrated ten years and 100 issues with a blowout party at Sydney’s Bayswater Brasserie. Bartenders, brand ambassadors and friends of the magazine enjoyed Moscow Mules, Negronis, Margaritas and Belgian beers…

CLASSIC: The Mint Julep

Photography: Rob Palmer

“When all is ready, assemble your guests on the porch or in the garden, where the aroma of the juleps will rise Heavenward and make the birds sing. Propose a worthy toast, raise the goblet to your lips, bury your nose in the mint, inhale a deep breath of its fragrance and sip [...]

Tales from the Humidor… An Introduction

I’m sure many of 4Bars readers are asking themselves this question when they come across my cigar segment here on 4Bars, so I thought I’d introduce myself to the Australian bartending community.
My wife knows about the affair I have been having with cigars for the past 9 years.
Like any affair it began with a casual [...]

Ice Ice Baby

A full transcript of the interview with Grant Collins which appears in the February issue of Bartender magazine.
Interview by Simon McGoram

What different types of ice have you been working with at Zeta over the past couple of years?
Like a few bartenders I was inspired by a visit to Japan. I was really focused – with my [...]