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NewsStarward Is Releasing Its Latest Super-Popular Ginger Beer Barrel Whisky to Warm Up Your Winter
The sixth annual release from the distillery's ginger-focused program will be available to buy next week — if you're quick.
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NewsSix Ways to Indulge When the Cocktail and Comfort Food Cravings Kick In
Satisfy your hankerings by heading to a cocktail festival, tucking into a pub roast or hibernating in front of the big screen.
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NewsAustralia's First Non-Alcoholic and Hangover-Free Bar Has Opened in Melbourne
The new project from booze-free gin producer Brunswick Aces also features the country's first physical non-alcoholic bottle shop.
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NewsFour Pillars Has Released Its 2021 Barrel-Aged Gins So You Can Keep Adding to Your Gin Shrine
Its Sherry Cask Gin and Chardonnay Barrel Gin are back — and the distillery has added a new Single Barrel Gin, too.
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NewsArchie Brothers Is Hosting Adults-Only Circus and Cocktail Pop-Ups in Its East Coast Arcade Bars
Once a month, you'll be able to head to Alexandria, Docklands or Toombul for stilt walkers, magicians, burlesque and beverages.
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NewsHow to Say Thanks to Aussie Hospitality Legends If You're a Bit of a Bar Fly
Show your support by hitting up a cocktail festival, having a parma with your pint and wearing your heart on your sleeve with some fun merch.
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GuideBrisbane's Best Inner-City Bars for After-Work Drinks with Your Coworkers
These rooftop bars, cosy pubs, riverside hangouts and wine havens are suitable for both celebrating and commiserating.
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GuideBrisbane Bars with Games and Activities for When You Want to Do More Than Just Sit Around and Drink
Sip shiraz over 'Scrabble', mash buttons with a brew in your hand or pair cocktails with karaoke — or making your own perfume.
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GuideThe Best Brisbane Beer Gardens and Boozy Courtyards
Save cosy pub corners for gloomy days — if the sun is shining, it's time to drink a brew out in the open at these Brisbane beer gardens.
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GuideBrisbane Bars and Restaurants That Are Undeniably, Unabashedly Romantic
Low lighting, jazz playlists, opulent cocktails, pastel hues, breathtaking views — this is all on offer at the best romantic bars in Brisbane.
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GuideThe Best Waterfront Venues in and Around Brisbane That Serve Drinks with a View All Year Round
Make the most of Brisbane's usually balmy weather with a spritz or meal by the water.
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GuideThe Best Rooftop Bars in and Around Brisbane
Here's where to head in and around Brisbane when you want to enjoy a cocktail skyward.
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GuideBrisbane's 20 Most Popular Bars of 2024 So Far
Across 2024 to-date, you've been saying cheers to plenty of watering holes with games — alongside laneway hangouts, martini havens, classic pubs and more.
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GuideSeven Bars in Brisbane to Go for Cocktails with Friends When You're Feeling Extra
Make the most of that golden stretch of the evening to enjoy a leisurely drink with your mates at these locales.
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GuideThe 20 Best Restaurants in Brisbane
These are Brisbane's must-visit restaurants for any discerning food aficionado.
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GuideBrisbane's 20 Most Popular Bars of 2023
Sprawling breweries, riverside terraces, reborn heritage-listed venues and rooftop haunts — they’ve all grabbed your attention in 2023.
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GuideThe Best Breweries in Brisbane
With freshly brewed IPAs by the river and cold ones in the 'burbs, Brisbane is a beer-lover's playground
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NewsFive Ways to Up Your Wine Knowledge If You Still Can't Tell Your Terroir from Your Tannins
Use these tips and tricks to learn — and sip — your way to wine success.
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NewsIris Is the Soon-to-Open New Rooftop Bar and Restaurant That'll Peer Over Brunswick Street
From the end of April, you'll be able to head to the top of Fortitude Valley's new Hotel X for red claw crayfish tails, sangria and killer views.
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NewsThis Indulgent New Booze Membership Includes an Entire Beer Vending Machine and a Year of Refills
It's one of the options under Craft Cartel Liquor's new subscriptions — but it'll cost you a tidy $10,000 per year.
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NewsSydney's Award-Winning Maybe Sammy Has Released a Trio of Bottled Cocktails to Sip at Home
The new premium batched creations come in both solo serves and share-friendly 500-millilitre bottles.
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NewsTwo Aussie-Brewed 'Game of Thrones' Beers Are Coming to Mark the HBO Show's Tenth Anniversary
Melbourne's Moon Dog Brewing is whipping up a Breaker of Chains chilli and vanilla stout and a Watchers on the Wall white chocolate ale.
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BarSlipstream Brewing Social House
8 The Avenue, Birtinya
This Brisbane brewery has expanded to the Sunshine Coast with a 40-tap hangout that's pairing beers and bites.
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BarPortside Social
39 Hercules Street, Hamilton
You'll find pints, parmigianas and games of pool at this Hamilton gastropub at Portside — and burgers, ribs and boozy bottomless weekend brunches, too.
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BarLittle Miss Sunshine
80 Ann Street, Brisbane City
This Brisbane brewery and bistro pours its own beers — and makes them — on Ann Street in the city's CBD.
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BarBar Miette
443 Queen Street, Brisbane City
Andrew McConnell's hospitality empire has arrived in Brisbane with this Euro-leaning terrace cafe and wine bar.
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RestaurantRiva Kitchen & Events
285 MacArthur Avenue, Hamilton
If you're after cruisy breakfasts, brunches and lunches with a view, you'll find them at Northshore Brisbane's airy riverside eatery.
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BarBrighton Hotel
196 Brighton Terrace, Brighton
Located 20 minutes from Brisbane, this northside pub has undergone a revamp, adding a new beer garden and bistro.
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BarThe Rose & Crown
275 Grey Street, South Brisbane
South Bank's new London-inspired pub has taken over Little Big House's old digs on Grey Street.
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BarManiax Brisbane CBD
Burnett Lane, Brisbane City
This second Brisbane site for the axe-throwing chain comes with a Viking-themed bar — and will get you hurling hatchets on Adelaide Street.
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BarThe Belvedere
Oxley Avenue, Woody Point
Woody Point's 122-year-old pub has relaunched after a $10-million-plus redevelopment.
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NewsNew Fortitude Valley Bar Kazba Is Serving One of Its Cocktails Out of a Flask Hidden in a Novel
Also on the Tel Aviv-inspired spot's menu: Turkish coffee martinis and chilli haloumi savoury doughnuts.
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NewsFive Regional Towns to Stop in When Road Tripping from Melbourne to Sydney
Expect baked goods galore — and spending the night in Australia's most haunted mansion (if you dare).
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NewsWildflower Gin Has Opened a Bar with Build-Your-Own G&Ts at Its Gold Coast Distillery
You can now head to Varsity Lakes, sink into leather chairs and sip lamington espresso martinis, too.
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NewsYou Can Now Get DIY Gelato Messina Cocktails in Easter Eggs Delivered to Your Door
Cocktail Porter will deliver everything you need to make salted caramel cocktails inside Easter eggs — or espresso martinis inside Lindt bunnies.
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NewsYou and Your Pooch Will Soon Be Able to Spend a Night at BrewDog's Australian Craft Beer Hotel
As part of its big Australian expansion plans, the beer brand is also setting up a second Brisbane bar, and launching its first sites in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.
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NewsFive Food Stops to Make on a Road Trip from Canberra to the Coast This Autumn
Let your taste buds lead the way from jam-filled doughnuts to cheeseburger pies.
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EventRhys Darby: The Legend Returns
Wed, 30 Apr, 2025
Princess Theatre, Woolloongabba
The New Zealand comedian is bringing his first stand-up show in almost a decade to Brisbane.
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EventDendy Powerhouse Outdoor Cinema Christmas Classics
Sat, 14 Dec 2024 and Fri, 20 Dec 2024
Dendy Powerhouse Outdoor Cinema, New Farm
Get festive with 'Die Hard', 'Love Actually' and 'Elf' under the stars at Brisbane's only permanent year-round outdoor cinema.
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EventChristmas Actually — The Little Red Company
Tue, 10 Dec - Sun, 15 Dec 2024
Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm
An end-of-year favourite, this supremely festive cabaret show sings through all the hits from 'Love Actually'.
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EventLifeline Bookfest — Summer
Sat, 18 Jan - Mon, 27 Jan 2025
Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Brisbane
It's time to stock up on soap opera-themed cookbooks and other treasures you didn't know you needed — again.
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EventFestive High Tea
Fri, 1 Nov - Sun, 29 Dec 2024
Living Room Bar, Brisbane City
'Tis the season to build your own gingerbread house over festive-themed cocktails at Brisbane's W Hotel's Christmas high tea.
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EventSouth Bank Openair Christmas Cinema
Sat, 14 Dec - Sun, 22 Dec 2024
South Bank Cultural Forecourt, South Brisbane
Pack a picnic and enjoy Christmas movies from your childhood — and other favourite flicks — under the stars.
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Event$2 Summer Dips
Sun, 1 Dec 2024 - Fri, 28 Feb 2025
Various Brisbane venues, Brisbane
You can enjoy a swim in Brisbane City Council's 22 public pools for just $2 all summer long.
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EventBrisbane Comedy Festival
Wed, 23 Apr - Sun, 25 May 2025
Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm
Get ready to laugh: Rhys Darby, Ross Noble and Boozy Shakespeare are on the lineup when Brisbane's annual comedy festival returns for 2025.
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EventChristmas in Brisbane
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 - Fri, 31 Jan 2025
Various locations across Brisbane, Brisbane
From a festive maze to a free light and sound experience, here's how Brisbane's CBD and South Bank is celebrating Christmas in 2024.
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EventThe Enchanted Garden
Fri, 22 Nov - Sat, 21 Dec 2024
Roma Street Parklands, Brisbane
See one of Brisbane's most-popular spaces in a completely new light when this pre-Christmas favourite lights up Roma Street Parkland — and festive season.
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NewsOne to Watch: A New Multipurpose Cocktail Lab Is Coming to Wollongong
A couple of bartenders are creating a collaborative and experimental space for the industry, plus a fun new place to drink in the Gong.
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NewsThese Australian Breweries and Beers Have Just Been Named the Best in the Country for 2021
They topped the competition at this year's Royal Queensland Food and Wine Show Beer Awards.
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NewsFour Pillars Has Teamed Up with QT Hotels On a Limited-Edition Coconut, Bamboo and Almond Gin
You'll only be able to drink it at the hotel chain's bars — or you can order a bottle for your liquor cabinet.
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NewsThree Twists on the Classic Margarita You Should Make This Month
Shake things up with these zesty tipples.
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NewsSlipstream Has Expanded Its Yeerongpilly Base with a 250-Person Brewpub and Big Beer Garden
The southside favourite is relaunching with 20 taps and a Californian-inspired food menu.
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NewsWe're Giving Away a Tap Machine So You Can Elevate Your At-Home Bar
Take your house party up a notch with ice-cold shots — without using up precious freezer space.
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NewsFour Pillars Is Expanding Its Healesville Distillery Via a Huge $6 Million Redevelopment
Set to open in December 2021, the new addition to the company's Yarra Valley site will feature new hospitality, production and bottling facilities, and an events space.
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NewsThis Australian Distillery Has Released a Limited-Edition Lamington-Flavoured Vodka
If you'd like your drinks to taste like dessert, this is the new tipple for you.
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NewsSay Cheers to 2020's Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers
You've heard 2020's best songs — now drink the year's best brews.
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NewsFour Pillars Is Releasing a New Pink-Hued Gin Inspired by Summer Beach House Getaways
It's a collaboration with Melbourne venue Arbory Afloat — and you can sip it onboard, or order a bottle for your own shelf.
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GuideFive Rooftop Bars Where You Can Make the Most of Golden Hour in Brisbane
Take an early mark to nab a spot at these coveted sky-high bars.
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GuideBrisbane's Most Popular Bars of 2020
These are the breweries, adults-only arcade bars and overwater spots you flocked to last year.
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NewsFortitude Valley Is Now Home to Rooftop Cocktail Joint Cielo and Ground-Level Bar La Costa
And they're both pouring tipples from the team behind Sydney's highly acclaimed Maybe Sammy, which was named the 11th best bar in the world in 2020.
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GuideNine Summery Courtyards for When You Want to Kick Off Cocktail Hour Before Dark
Take your pick from riverside bars to cosy pub gardens.
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NewsThree Tequila Cocktail Recipes That'll Spice Up Your Next Summer Session
Shake things up at your next at-home cocktail hour this summer.
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FeatureHow to Make a Tip of the Hat with Jacob Geaney from The Gresham
This rich cocktail is perfect for after-dinner drinks — and for the festive season.
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FeatureCocktail Hour
We've teamed up with Maker's Mark to bring you a guide to making the best of cocktail hour, at home or out and about.
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NewsEight Cocktail Bars to Dip Into When You Don't Want the Night to End Yet
Keep the good times rolling.
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NewsWhere to Go in Brisbane for a Last-Minute Catch-Up with Mates This Summer
Celebrate making it through another year at these inner city beer gardens and late-night party spots.
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NewsTop-Notch Local Tipples in Trying Times: Three Victorian Companies Making Must-Sip Drinks in 2020
Meet the standout local drinks brands that were voted the state's favourites as part of the BWS Local Luvvas initiative.
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NewsTop-Notch Local Tipples in Trying Times: Two Queensland Companies Making Must-Sip Drinks in 2020
Meet the standout local drinks brands that were voted the state's favourites as part of the BWS Local Luvvas initiative.
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NewsFive Twists on Your Favourite Party Cocktails for Your Next Summer Get-together
Give these elevated cocktails a whirl at your next soirée.
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NewsTop-Notch Local Tipples in Trying Times: Four NSW Companies Making Must-Sip Drinks in 2020
Meet the standout local drinks brands that were voted the state's favourites as part of the BWS Local Luvvas initiative.
