Your guide to Australian craft spirits & Melbourne's cocktail culture
What deliciousness will we get into this month? Read on for our top 10 upcoming events… — 1. The Melbourne Manhattan While New York’s Museum of Modern Art exhibition is on at the National Gallery of Victoria, the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival has been hosting a mini-fest/feast of Mel&NYC […]
Here are the top 10 drinkable things to do around Melbourne this July… — Mont Plonk Melbourne Public’s terrace has transformed into Mont Plonk (pictured above) for the winter. The cosy pop-up bar is an apres ski experience complete with open fires, mulled wine, spiked hot chocolate, shot-skis, vodka luge […]
Saturday 9th June is World Gin Day. For no other reason than to celebrate the not-so-humble juniper spirit, let’s run down all the WGD festivities on around Melbourne… 1. The Craft & Co debuts its first Gin Night Market where you can taste more than a dozen Australian and New […]
Over 120 local bars are celebrating, that bartender’s old faithful, the Negroni this week. Each will present the original, a twist or even fully-fledged menu of Negronis (with $1 or more of each cocktail sold going to the bar’s chosen cause!) We’ve scoured the Negroni Week 2018 program to let […]
Here are the top 10 drinkable things to do in Melbourne this June… Scents of Place Gin Palace debuts gin lunches as a celebration of Australian botanicals. Very rare tickets are still available for June’s events doing double duty for Good Food Month featuring the distilleries Southern Wild, Alchemy and […]
We’ve been trying to get everybody aboard the “beer as a legitimate cocktail ingredient” train for years. Luckily we’ve got a lot of help this Good Beer Week. There are a bunch of bars and breweries getting experimental and adding beer to the mix. Never mind the purists! Ease yourself into […]
There must be something in the (fire)water? Maybe it’s the unusually pleasant weather we’re experiencing? Whatever the reason – though we’re typically ready to start hibernation prep by this time of year – Melbourne simply Is Not Stopping. May is Australian Wine Month, there’s also World Whiskey Day, World Cocktail […]
Film…comedy…it’s not only food festivals that have caught our attention this month! Here’s are our pick of the top 10 ways to celebrate the end of summer (with glass in hand). — Absinthe Masterclass In honour of Absinthe Day (Mar 5), Absinthia is hosting this exploration of all things liquid […]
Less than a month to go until the 2018 Melbourne Food & Wine Festival. Event are selling out so let’s take a look at the best, brightest and booziest events you can still score tickets to. Food Drink for Thought – These events are serious about cocktail culture…and seriously tasty […]
Don’t waste the last month of summer. Here are our tips for the best craft spirits, bar and cocktail related events around Melbourne… — 1. Bibelot x Starward It might be love at first taste. The dessert maestros of Bibelot are being joined by the whisky whizzes from Starward for […]