Your guide to Australian craft spirits & Melbourne's cocktail culture
– Be a smart drinker. Melbourne Museum launches Nocturnal, an adults-only night of shenanigans for smarties on the first Friday of each month. Signature cocktails are to be paired with expert talks, snacks go with live music sets, there will even be a nail bar so you can look your […]
Wine boilermakers are coming to Starward – Here’s your monthly round up of the best ways to quench your thirst in Melbourne. — Hello World Cider Day 2017. Flying Brick Cider Co is hosting a whole day of celebrations including old school covers (just embrace it), tastings, cider slushies and cider […]
8 new Melbourne bars have flung open their doors in the past month or two. Have you tried them all? In no particular order… — 1. Vinorium Food + Wine When the time of night comes to leave Welcome to Thornbury for more grown-up environs, pop over the road to […]
Why have one Old Fashioned when you can have THREE? The following transformable recipe – presented by Rupert on Rupert – for the recent 2017 World Class Cocktail Week is basically the classic drink but you’re adding a matched cheese for an extra flavour kick. These cocktails “let the spirit […]
Cheers to World Whisky Day! In honour of this auspicious occasion, Starward‘s head bartender Cam kindly shows us how to make an original twist on the classic ‘Airmail’ cocktail. This drink straddles that fine line between being fancy enough to impress your friends but easy enough to make at home (I […]
In the lead up to the Travelling Takes Cocktail Competition hosted by Southern Comfort let’s take a look at the drink creation by Victorian winner Genevieve Madalay from The Noble Experiment. Her “Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop” cocktail is inspired by “all the weird fizzy drinks that kept me going on my travels […]
Beer, wine, cocktails: here are all of the essentials to tempt you out of the house this month. — Don’t forget it’s World Class Cocktail Week! There are over 30 cocktail-centric events, both big and small, happening around Melbourne. Go try something new and near guaranteed to be delicious (or at […]
If fear of the unknown (“barkeep, why is there a shrub in my drink?”) has been keeping you from venturing beyond your standard Friday night Margarita, now is the time to change all that. World Class Cocktail Week brought to us by Diageo – they of Tanqueray, Smirnoff and Johnnie Walker […]
Pick up your flagons, your schooners, your pots, pints and ponies. Good Beer Week 2017 is almost here. In a little over a month, brewers from across the nation, plus some international interlopers, will descend on Melbourne and host all manner of brew-fueled events. Here’s our – spirit-friendly – pick […]
Here’s your hit-list of new bars to haunt this April! 1. Whitehart A chef and a filmmaker convert an old carpark into a two storey shipping container bar. How Melbourne is that? Visual art and rotating food vendors complete the picture. 22 Whitehart Lane, Melbourne – 2. Xm4 The little […]