The Baxter Inn Bushfire Benefit

Overview

UPDATE: DECEMBER 23, 2019 — Even more star bartenders have now joined the lineup. The below article has been updated to include them.

Head to The Baxter Inn on Sunday, December 29, to do some good with your booze bucks. The popular whisky den is hosting a Bushfire Benefit — a charity initiative that'll see some of Sydney's best bartenders join forces for one night.

On the night, Big Poppa's Mary White, Dre Walters and Daniel Noble from Old Mate's Place, The Drink Cabinet's Jason Crawley, Tio's Alex Dowd and Jeremy Blackmore, Jay Cozma and Ross Purnell from Shady Pines, Charlie Ainsbury and James Marcel Chew Wynn-Williams from Proof & Co, Paige Aubort and Evan Strove from Bulletin Place, Charlie Lehmann and Sebastian 'Cosmo' Soto at Ramblin' Rascal Tavern, Sweet & Chilli's Jared Plummer and Cam Northway, Lewis Jaffrey and Rachelle Hair from Archie Rose, and teams from Mary's Newtown, Lobo Plantation, Charlie Parker's and The Baxter Inn will all be making drinks.

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Each team will shake and stir their signature cocktails, which will all be going for $12 a pop. An entry fee of $50 also includes one cocktail and all proceeds from the night will be go to the NSW RFS. It's been a particularly devastating bushfire season already, with 768 homes lost and more than 2.7 million hectares burnt at last count.

The Baxter Inn Bushfire Benefit runs from 4–10pm.

Images: Leticia Almeida