I don't often write about cocktails, and I'm not really even doing so on this occasion, but I just received the media release below and it is well worth sharing. Some of the best beer palates I have met in Brisbane over the last few years have been some of the city's best cocktail guys. I'm not sure whether it's they just have an appreciation of flavour or that they are open to new things, but they certainly have taken to craft beer and have been really doing it well.
I recently went to a beer dinner featuring in which Perryn did the food matching at The Euro and it was one of the bet that I have been to. Being The Euro, part of the Urbane/Euro/Laneway restaurant conurbation, the food was excellent, but the matches were interesting and very inventive. One even featured Fosters...ina can.
Anyway, congratulations to Pez and, if you love beer, don't forget to put his matching skills to the test at The Laneway, it's a much overlooked beer destination.
Media Release
The Laneway’s PEZ takes Global Gin Mare Award in SPAIN last Night!!!
We all knew The Laneway’s PERRYN COLLIER (Pez) could mix a sweet cocktail, pour a great beer and talk for hours about drinks; and now the world agrees. Last night on the Spanish island of Ibiza Pez beat out the best in the world to take the Global Gin Mare Award, one of the hottest cocktail competitions on the planet. This means he’s the new Official Gin Mare Ambassador for Australia and South East Asia – and he’ll be flying all over the world representing not only The Laneway, but Brisbane and Australia.
Only recently introduced to Australia, Gin Mare is the first super premium Mediterranean Gin, created using botanicals from the Mediterranean basin - Arbequina olives, thyme, rosemary and basil. The competition saw Pez create two cocktails – the first inspired by the concept of “Mare Nostrum” or the lifestyle and gastronomy of the Mediterranean; and the second, was his version of a Dirty Martini.
The Laneway is the bar that started Brisbane’s small bar itch (or revolution as the case maybe!) so it’s only proper that The Laneway has been announced as THE ONLY QLD BAR up for BAR OF THE YEAR in the 2012 Australian Bartender Awards – the be announced on September 24! AND, both Pez and his fellow The Laneway bartender in Kal Moore are up for Bartender of the Year …. It’s a MIX OFF of the highest standards.