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Stripped back and strong, gin's the thing for Longroom cocktails

It's a bold statement, but Longroom bar manager Marc Frew believes "anything you can do with vodka you can do better with gin".

Plonk turns up the heat on Nara sake

After a sake tasting at the Japanese embassy recently, Plonk at the Fyshwick markets is stocking one of the sakes from Nara that a delegation from Nara, led by Mayor Gen Nakagawa, brought to Canberra.

British wine expert blends with capital

Britain’s foremost expert on Australian wine, Matthew Jukes, is back in town this week.

All goes into the brewpot

When inspiration strikes, Kevin Hingston gets to work and makes another unique beer, writes Kirsten Lawson.

Return of the tinny
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In cans we trust? American craft brewers are shunning bottles in favour of cans and some local companies are taking up the cause here.

Drink for the absinthe-minded

No madness, no mayhem - just a lovely ritual that leaves you lucid and slightly euphoric.

Our flutes bubbleth over

Australians are drinking more champagne than ever before.

NSW wine awards 2013
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It was Tumbarumba's year at the 2013 NSW Wine Awards, largely thanks to the regions' chardonnay.

Clues in the crema: what can it tell you about your coffee?
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Good crema is an important part of espresso flavour and texture, even of milk coffee.

Keeping track of your glass at a party

If you want your glass to go unmolested, make like Gollum and the ring - keep it close or suffer the consequences.

Huon Hooke's top drops

An interactive guide to the best wines of the week and the best foods to accompany them.

Trip the green fantastic: the truth about absinthe
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Mixologist Benjamin Luzz is out to restore absinthe’s reputation and to educate the drinking public on this unique and unusual drink.

Five of a kind: Beer gardens

Beer gardens are always enticing as the weather warms up, perhaps all the more so after a chilly spring. Chris Canty samples the new, the updated and the classic.