Recipes The Cosmic Colada: a tequilified take on the classic Piña Colada recipe This take on the Piña Colada is tall, refreshing, and given a Cosmic kick with New England IPA and an extra touch of 1800 Coconut.
Recipes Bodriggy's Michelada recipe uses a hit of tequila for a little more oomph The beauty of this Michelada recipe is in the details: the spice mix, the pilsner, and the hit of 1800 Silver that gives the drink a lift.
Recipes Bodriggy Brewpub's House Ferment is like a hard seltzer that actually packs in the flavour Prickly pear and 1800 Reposado Tequila pair perfectly in this effervescent cooler from Bodriggy Brew Pub in Melbourne.
Recipes Get The Baxter Inn's recipe for the Rattlesnake cocktail The Rattlesnake cocktail dates back to 1930's The Savoy Cocktail Book, and is essentially a whiskey sour with a little bite — hence the name, we presume.
Recipes This Julep recipe appeals to whisky drinkers and non-whisky drinkers alike Door Knock tweaks the classic recipe by matching rye with blackberry.
Recipes This Grasshopper recipe from The Cumberland is drier and punchier than the original The Grasshopper may not be a fashionable drink these days, but this one is a killer.
Recipes Fortunate Son’s take on the Flip: Stout & Sons The Stout & Son, a drink you’ll find on the menu at Sydney bar Fortunate Son, has roots that go back hundreds of years. It’s the kind of drink — strong, rich, elemental — that bartenders have been making forever.
Recipes Decoder: James Irvine and how he developed the Oki Doki Hinoki In the Decoder, we take one great drink and ask its creator to break it down for us. First up is James Irvine, from the Four Pillars Lab in Sydney.
Recipes Up in smoke: The Dunes cocktail from Maybe Sammy Drawing, as Maybe Sammy does, on the ritz and the lore of the Rat Pack era, it makes sense that their cocktail list features signatures named for Las Vegas casinos.
Recipes This Breakfast Martini recipe is given a lift with champagne This Breakfast Martini recipe from Fortunate Son in Sydney is given a lift and a hit of fizz, thanks to the inclusion of French champagne.
Recipes The Frank: the cocktail equivalent of loosening your tie You've had a day. But there's people to meet and entertain and you're not done working just yet (it just looks a lot more like play).
Recipes Amaro and creme de mure mark the H.S.L Special a standout The H.S.L Special has been a mainstay of the Above Board cocktail list since Hayden Lambert opened the bar in 2016.
Recipes The Empire Strikes Bax by Hayden Lambert Hayden Lambert created the Empire Strikes Bax as an off-menu special in his time as head bartender at Bar Americano in the Melbourne CBD.
Recipes Ginger gives this Harlem Shake a kick Perhaps you're a few drinks into the evening, maybe you've just had a big meal. You need a pick me up.
Recipes This Gin Basil Smash recipe is simple and delicious Refreshing, quaffable, delicious — the Gin Basil Smash is a true example of a modern classic cocktail.
Recipes This is not your average Pink Lemonade, from Cantina OK! Bright fruit flavours and soda make this tequila drink — playfully titled ‘Pink Lemonade’ — from Sydney’s Cantina OK! sing.
Recipes The Ti Punch: a perfect vehicle for quality rhum agricole The Ti Punch is a simple rum, lime, and sugar drink that certainly packs a punch.
Recipes The Alaska Cocktail is a gin and Chartreuse recipe we love The Alaska is a fine drink, and a perfect vehicle for showing off the aromatics of Yellow Chartreuse.
Recipes How the Cosmopolitan cocktail — a true modern classic — was born Can we please reclaim the Cosmopolitan cocktail from the Sex & The City era mess of a drink it became?
