Your guide to Australian craft spirits & Melbourne's cocktail culture
DrinkMelbourne’s choice: The Bon Vivant’s Companion Named after a book (a.k.a Bar-Tender’s Guide a.k.a How to Mix Drinks) by New York bartending icon Jerry Thomas, this new out-of-town bar has a self-imposed lot to live up to. First impressions? It’s worth the coastal road trip… or the chauffeured chariot ride […]
This weekend is a long one – all the better to settle in with a G&T. Saturday 8th of May is also World Gin Day so there’s extra reason to seek out and support an Australian craft gin distiller. Here are the World Gin Day events happening in Melbourne and […]
Struck down with Covid (again) recently, the kind folks at Garden Street Gin Club sent me their April 2024 box filled with goodies including a gin by North Queensland distillery Tans Lines and some tasty dried mango. Inspired to make a curative style of cocktail, I settled on that modern […]
Is amaro – that bitter, herbal, digestivo – in its renaissance era? With Euro Summers trending and new Italian restaurants hitting Melbourne as hard as the moon hits your eye (like a big pizza pie), it could be. Navi Lounge, the bar beside Yarraville’s two-hatted Navi, believes amaro is “set […]
Opening doors in early 2019, Bar Clara is now blowing out the candles in celebration of its fifth birthday. Or rather, the bar team is firing up their blowtorches to caramelise the meringue clouds that perch atop the popular Banoffee-pie-inspired cocktail that has been the only drink to remain on […]
Actually, it’s Patient Wolf Distilling Co.’s new Agave Gin! Dubbed Blanco Wolf this drop is essentially gin botanicals on an organic blue weber agave syrup spirit base which gives herbaceousness sans Tequila and mezcal’s typical earthy smokiness. Why agave gin? “Why not,” says Patient Wolf co-founder and distiller Dave Irwin. […]
Move over brandy and eggnog. Christmas gin is stealing your December crown. And Victoria by Farmer’s Daughters is happy to be an accomplice; inviting Four Pillars (and their Chrissy pudding-infused gin) over to their place to shake their gin-gle bells. Their collaborative Festive Sunday Sessions begin this weekend and run […]
Four Pillars unleashed their fifth Distiller’s Series collab – Green Apple and Rhubarb gin – earlier this week. So they’re toasting the gin’s arrival with a weekend-long, Autumnal celebration. Follow golden-turning leaves into the hills of Healesville to their distillery this Saturday or Sunday from 10:30am to 12:30pm. There, in […]
Water. Grain. Yeast. With such minimal ingredients allowed inside a bottle of single malt whisky, it’s little wonder that modern distillers are curious to push the boundaries of each element to create a liquid of distinction. Boutique water sources and experimental grains have had their time to shine. Now, Nikka […]
Fable has kindly offered a starry, starry night to one DrinkMelbourne reader (and their best whisky-loving friend)! This will be a matched whisky supper with an unmatched view as Fable Melbourne collaborates with Australia’s most awarded whisky distillery Starward for a three-course supper. The Fable x Starward Supper offers lovers […]