Drink Of The Year

A collection of 94 posts

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Go Pool Side at Maybe Sammy with a drink we love

This tall glass of delicious is one of the 50 best drinks in 2024.

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This Caspar Milquetoast cocktail is anything but bland

It’s the signature drink from new Brisbane bar, Milquetoast.

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Could this West Side Rumos be the drink of the summer?

It’s the Ramos riff that shouldn’t be as delicious as it is.

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Get the recipe for The Gilda Martini at Oncore by Clare Smyth

The Dirty Martini gets elevated.

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Get the recipe for Anchovy Toast from Andy Chu

The One Or Two bartender and owner has one of the best drinks of 2024.

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Get Sam Kirk’s recipe for Passion Pop

Inspired by the classic low fi bottling, this one’s a whole lot more delicious.

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The Yuzu & Flowers at The Waratah is a non-alc we love

You don’t miss the alcohol in this flavoursome sipper from Tom Opie.

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Get the recipe for INXS at PS40

The Pornstar Martini gets the PS40 treatment.

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Get the recipe for this Peach & Tomato Gimlet

This recipe from flavour maker Matt Whiley is a “savoury take on a classic Gimlet,” he says. Found on the Re list before the bar closed earlier this year — they’re currently looking ofr a new site on which to open — the drink swaps in “a vinegar for acidity using

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Get the recipe for Homegrown at Sante Cocktail Bar

The Toowoomba cocktail bar has been delighting drinks fans for years.

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Get Jack Connor’s nostalgic take on an Australian icy-pole

Queensland sees its fair share of Cyclones; this one is delicious.

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Get Tom Opie’s Hunter Valley inspired recipe for Earth & Rain

The Waratah is firmly rooted in a sense of place. Opening at the end of 2023, last month they released the second edition of their cocktail menu upstairs (the downstairs list of three changes each week). Whereas for the opening list they drew upon producers from the far north of

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It’s a Zombie, made pink and given the Tucano’s treatment

At Surry Hills bar, Tucano’s, co-owner and bartender Steve Davis has been taking rum and tiki drinks and making them approachable, like this take on the Zombie he worked on with Tom Bulmer. “Tucano’s is all about taking the “classic” form of tiki drinking and updating those drinks

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Get the recipe for Jacob Cohen’s Savile Highball

This drink smells different, depending on who makes it — and that’s the point.

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Get the recipe for St Brigid Bar’s Long Mac Topped Up

Garnish it with biscotti (or a Guinness).

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Get The Cumberland’s recipe for a Strawberries & Cream Negroni

Garnish it with biscotti (or a Guinness).

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Kayla Saito’s Bullet Proof cocktail is nitro charged and tapped

And it has become a cult favourite at her bar, Molli.

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The early word on Bar Love’s Peaches & Cream Negroni? It’s one you’ll love

The recently opened Perth bar is already turning heads.

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Get the recipe for Nathan Beasley’s Spro Tini

The drinks at Bar Spontana are a cut above.

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This is the recipe for Blinker from Luke Kelly

It's a Manhattan-inspired riff from Apollo Inn.

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This Bar Bellamy cocktail is a sight to behold

This showstopper from Oska Whitehart has beens topping thumbs across social media.

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The Drink of the Year Awards are back; entries are open now

We’re celebrating the best cocktails Australia’s bartenders have to offer.

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Samuel Thornhill created the Drink of the Year in 2023 (here’s how he did it)

The Byrdi head bartender talks about the year-long process of creating the drink, and removing the distinction between bar and kitchen.

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Get a look at all the photos from the 2023 Boothby Drink of the Year Awards

All the action from the second annual Drink of the Year Awards.

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Here they are: the 2023 Boothby Drink of the Year Awards results

The results are in, as well as the winners of four major awards.