Drink a French cocktail for World Bartenders Day, today! To celebrate World Bartenders Day we’re highlighting French cocktails available at French bars and restaurants around Australia. Plus recipes for cocktails you can make at home with French spirits to become your own bartender.
BRISBANE
Haig Rd. Bistro
https://haigrdbistro.com.au/
Barman / Bistro owner, Arvid Noack suggests Haig Rd. Bistro’s most popular cocktail for For World Bartenders Day. It’s called Alsace got me back.
Recipe
Ingredients:
20ml Alsatian Williams Pear liquor
40ml Bombay sapphire Gin
15ml lemon juice
15ml sugar syrup
Method:
Shake and dump into modern martini glass – topped w soda – garnish with cinnamon dusted half pear.
About the cocktail:
Avrid says “I lived for a while in Heidelberg, which is close to Strasbourg/ Alsace ! This cocktail brings back good memories …. good food , beverages & company!”
CANBERRA
Les Bistronomes
https://www.lesbistronomes.net/
Thomas Cutropia, Les Bistronomes’ French barman from Nice recommends the Old fashion provençal
Recipes
Ingredients:
30ml henri Bardouin pastis
30ml liqueur de paris almond liqueur
2 dash of angustura bitter
5ml Home-made lavender syrup
Method:
Stir in a mixing glass to melt the ice for 2/3 min as a original old fashion
Garnish wish a lavender flower
And enjoy with some friend playing pétanque
MELBOURNE
Frédéric
www.frederic.com.au
Frédéric’s barman, Shahin Chegini, suggests Le resistance, a French cocktail for World Bartenders Day.
Recipe
Ingredients:
50ml Vedrenne Le Gin 1&9
10ml La Gitana Manzanilla dry sherry
5ml Pernod Ricard
20ml fresh lemon juice
dill
cucumber
Method:
1. Muddle a slice of cucumber and dill in shaker tin
2. Rinse a chilled Nick and Nora glass with Pernod Ricard
3. Add the rest of the ingredients into a shaker tin with ice and vigorously shake for 2 seconds
4. Fine strain the liquid into the pre-rinsed glass
5. Garnish with a lemon twist
About: Original cocktail inspired by a dry sherry cobbler and south side
La Niche Café
https://www.lanichefitzroy.com/
Lydie Chopin, bartender at La Niche suggests the French 75 cocktail for World Bartenders Day.
It’s made from Gin, Champagne and Lemon Juice
History: This cocktail was created at The New-York bar in Paris by Harry MacElhone during World War I. It was said that the combination had such a kick, it felt like being shelled with the powerful French 75mm field gun (also known as the French 75).
SYDNEY
Bathers’ Pavilion
https://www.batherspavilion.com.au/
The barmen are Daniel Kelly and Verchial Mather
They recommend the Raspberry Beret cocktail for World Bartenders Day
Recipe
Monkey 47 sloe Gin, Freshly made raspberry syrup fresh lime Egg white and Tanqueray Gin Garnished with a rose petal
About: The cocktail was inspired by the traditional whisky sour with a French twist to match with their fine deserts and after meal pairings.
DIRECT FROM THE IMPORTER
Mind Spirits & Co.
www.mindspirits.com.au
Mikael from Mind Spirits & Co proposes a “French Connection”!
A beautiful story between France and Australia.
Miko Abouaf, Australian from Sydney is the owner of a magnificent Cognac distillery. It’s a distillery that creates products from sous-vide distillation (distillation at low temperatures).
https://audemus-spirits.com/spirits/
The French Connection is an IBA Official Cocktail, and Mikael says it’s a good after dinner drink:
Recipe
Ingredients
40ML of Covert Liqueur 33%
40ML of Naked Amaretto made in Melbourne from almonds and recycled apricot seeds.
Method
Pour 40ml of Covert in a Cognac glass, add 40ml of naked Amaretto and 100g of ice. Stir gently with a cocktail spoon.
That’s all there is to it.
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What’s your favourite French cocktail? Which French cocktails for World Bartenders Day?
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