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Press Club

Cocktail Bars

Great tunes mixed with fierce drinkin'? You've done it again, Press Club

First published on 7 Dec 2011. Updated on 27 Mar 2012.

This is about as close as you get to a Steampunk bar in Australia, we reckon. Sure, there's a cocktail list and guys behind the bar who are very happy and more than capable to make you a three-gin Martini or whatever, but what the Press Club is really about is getting in and getting out with beers and simple mixed drinks. Check out the gigantic metal fan in its metal cage, slowly rotating, or the big propeller hung over the bar with a giant eye right in the middle that winks every now and then. It's been a fixture here since 1998. Live'n'local bands often play here and later in the evening you'll find a tantalisingly rumptacular mix of old school hip hop and break beats. So you can see why this isn't really the place to be requesting Trinidad Sours. Because at the heart of it, this is a big, busy bar that is as much about good times as it is quality drinkin'.

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World Class Cocktail: Sangre y Miel
by Adam Smith

Sangre y Miel, translated to blood and honey; a twist on the classic whisky cocktail the blood and sand, using Don Julio Reposado tequila and only 4 other ingredients this cocktail is simple, but stunningly complex, a perfect gentlemen's drink. The original cocktail was inspired by the movie Blood and Sand which took place in Seville. Due to the Spanish influences in Mexico this sport has a large following and this cocktail was envisioned being consumed by matadors after there performance.

Recipe:

40ml Don Julio Reposado tequila

10ml Drambuie

10ml Antica Formula

10ml fresh orange juice

Bar spoon of talisker

Method:

Add all ingredients besides orange juice into mixing glass stir whist slowly adding orange juice until required dilution and temperature is reached. strain into chilled coupete and garnish with orange zest.

Words by Myffy Rigby