Some Stuff

Stuff that has arrived.

Prickly Moses Saison
Prickly Moses Farmhouse Ale
Prickly Moses Reserve De Otway
Moon Dog Wet Nurse Tonic Milk Stout
Moon Dog Black Lung II
Moon Dog + Yeastie Boys Collab Peated Puple Pale (whatever it's called)
Cantillion Rose De Gambrinus
Haand Bryyget (Spelling?) Odins Tipple
Heretic Evil Twin American Red Ale
Heretic Evil Cousin DIPA
Heretic Shallow Grave Porter
Temple Midnight BIPA
Weihenstephan Infinium
1488 Whiskey Beer
Harviston Old Dubh 16 & 18
Coniston Bluebird Bitter
Coniston Old Man UK Brown Ale
DT
Malheur Brut
Ridgeway IPA
Ridgeway Foreign Export Stout

Small Bar Times Part II

I love stocking products that we will never sell.

Liquors and spirits that people, no matter how good he product is, it just doesn't shift.

My theory is, I can talk till I'm blue in the face about some brilliant other wordily sprit. About how it's hand crafted and hows it totally unique.

"There is only 30 bottles in the world and it has been filtered through the original jackets of Elvis Presley and The Fonz" I might baffle on a bit, but always the truth...

Inevitably, every customer smiles at me, "mmmm, maybe next time" and gives me the 'you look like a used car salesman' glare.

Obviously, this being me, I take offence to the situation and I'm immediately on the siege "Us VS Them" mentality.

However, if we switched the situation, where I was, say a 'mixologist' and I had a beard, a small towel over my shoulder, some sort of flannel scruffed shirt with the buttons down up all the way to the top. Possibly the interplay of a 'smurf' beanie and thick rimmed spectacles and listened to the funky sounds of dubstep instead of the whiney punk sounds of something like The Buzzcocks.
Then, they instantly fold and splurge and purchase said $45 saffron infused quaint, ironically named cocktail, using the spirit that I just tried really, really, really hard to sell.


Give or take. Thats my argument anyway.

Maybe I really do look like a used car salesman.

Maybe I need to dress differently at work.

Maybe I'm the only person who, in all fairness respects people who make my tasty beverages. However, sometimes 'mixologists' just need to remember that, you are indeed, just the person who makes my f@&ken drink, I don't want you to impress me, I just want you to be a nice, normal person.

Having that trademark vitriol out of the way, the following products are now available (albeit at the Bellevue Hill store, please contact if you indeed want one and visit North Strathfield) :

Pussers 15yo Navy Rum
Pussers 1L Nelson's Blood Ceramic Decanter
Pussers 200ml Nelson's Blood Ceramic Decanter
Sazerac Rye Whiskey
Sazerac 18yo Rye Whiskey
Sazerac Thomas Handy Rye Whiskey
Pyrat XO Rum
Buffalo Trace 'White Dog Mash' (Pure Buffalo Trace Bourbon clear before it enters the barrel, properly amazing. it's never gonna sell)
Germana Cachaça 2 Years in Oak
Germana Cachaça Caetano;s (Aged in Umburana Wood Cask)
Roger Groult 3yo Calvodos Pays d'Auge
2002 Calvados Victor Gontier Domfrontais Appellation
Cognac Dudoognon VSOP Grande Champagne 10yo
Pastis Henri Bardoin

(1L Jars of French fruit stewing in their own liquor)
1L Jar of Liquor Du Friut - Cherries
1L Jar of Liquor Du Friut - Raspberries
1L Jar of Liquor Du Friut - Cheery Plum
1L Jar of Liquor Du Friut - Baby Pears
1L Jar of Liquor Du Friut - Prunes in Armagnac

These are actually really properly lovely and would be an absolute gem placed at the bottom of a Champagne flute topped with some Mumm over the top.
Monaco, F1? Anyone?

You can always prove me wrong.

Cider House Rules Part II

I can always tell on a Saturday at the Bellevue Hill store when it's going to be a really troubling and upsetting day.

"Where are ya cold cases of cider champ"

(Obviously, like any normal genuine functioning member of society,I immensely dislike it when I'm called champ. Or buddy, or pally, or busta, or fella, or big guy, or cobba, or big mac, or big fella, or sport, or big man, or sunny, or squire, or boss. I could go on).

They are not talking about good cider, they are referring cold cases of something which tastes just plain horrible.

They are usually, and I'm massively pigeonholing (great Australian past time) here ; wearing their sunglasses on inside, attire of a singlet or shirtless, shoeless or thongs.

Usually have come straight out of the annual General Pants fashion catalogue.

Possibly accompanied by the famed flat rimmed American sports team Baseball, NFL, NHL, NBA cap, so on and so forth.

This all generally happens when it's warmer weather. Y'know, douchbag weather.

The kind of amateur drinking weather that is Hahn Super Dry or God save us, Corona drinking weather. Of Which both sell well in summer.

For lesser folk than you and I. That consume for terrible taste and inebriation rather than taste, fulfilment, enjoyment, love, disgust and obviously, inebriation.

Always out in force, in the warmer weather.

Always some ghastly music festival on to smatter their terrible lives against the wall for.

" we're going to 'WE LOVE'?" or "tell me your going to 'FUTURE'?".

I have absolutely no idea what acronym and nicknames you have for silly music festivals, you utter scum.

Moving on,

All you need to know is that we got some new French ciders that unlike most of the cider we sell that looks great and tastes like poo.

These French Beauties look impressive and taste like Venus De Milo.

A list of the new cider and our currant range are the following (#New Arrivals) :

#Le Pere Jules Cidre Bouché Pays D'Auge
#LA POMMERAIE Cidre Brut Artisanal de Normandie- Dry
#LA POMMERAIE Cidre Doux- Normandy Semi -Dry
#Fernand et Frères Poiré
Le Pere Jules Poire (Perry-Pear wine) Pays D'Auge.
Victor Gontier Cidre Bouche Fermier Domfrontais (Apple)
Cidre de Cornouailles Cornwall Brittany (Apple)
Cidre traditionnel d'Anneville (Apple)
Comte Louis de Lauriston Poire (Perry/Pear Cider)
Eric Bordelet Sydre Argelette (Apple)
Eric Bordelet Poire Granit (Perry/Pear Cider) Fu*%ing Amazing!
Eric Bordelet Sydre Brut Tendre (Apple)
Small Acres Dry Sparkling
Small Acres Medium Dry Still
Small Acres Medium Still
Small Acres Medium Sweet (Frizzante)
Small Acres Dry Sparkling Rose
Small Acres Ice Wine Cyder
Thorogoods Medium Dry Spakling
Thorogoods Medium Sweet Sparkling
Thorogoods Dry Sparkling
Thorogoods Sweet Scrumpy Still
Thorogoods Meduim Dry Scrumpy Still
Thorogoods Dry Scrumpy Still
Thorogoods Medium Sweet scrimpy Still
Thorogoods Sweet Apple Liquor
Thorogoods Apple Chocolat Liquor
Cidre Dupont Organic
Cidre Dupont Bouche Fermier
Cidre Dupont Vintage (Aged in Calvados Barrels)
Cidre Dupont Cuvee Colette 2006

Any cider you wish to try please call in advance to see we have it in stock, I can always bring it from one store to the other.

101st Entry. Scream For Your Cream!

And What a way to celebrate. It's all hoppy and doggy.

Obviously






We have fresh replenishment of T Dawg's

-Horns UP Rye IPA
-Sparkling Ale
-Redhopulus.

The even better news is that we have also received from T Dawg

- Children Of Darkness BIPA

& proudly the only person in NSW to stock the 1st Anniversary Super Beast Wheat Wine.


SCREAM FOR YOUR CREAM!

Hoptimum's Here

I'm late to the party.

Always have been.

But it's here, and after this lot, it's back to waiting till 2013.

I know your all going to buy singles, and I have accommodated you by charging my usual.

However, tust me mate, you should be buying a 4pk of this bad boy.

We don't really do prices on the blog. It's not how we carry ourselves.

But you really must know that we are selling cartons (24 bottles) of Hoptimum for $145.

That's $6.04 for a 355ml's of pure big hoppy bliss whole cone DIPA.

Watch it, neuter it, love it, respect it. Drink that mother f*#ker.

Dawwwwg Boowwwwssman

we have replenished stock and new items from HopDog such as :






Horns Up - Your favourite IPA is back, fresh, with more horn, metal.

Sticky Figgy - Get down with some figgy, make it sticky.

Redhopulus - Make it red, make it scream, make it hop.

Sparkling Ale - For people who I'm trying make born again beerians. It's hard work being a beer baptist.

You should all be worried how well me and Tim get along. The days me T Dawwg meet up its a mash fest of comic books, condescending stories about other people in the beer industry and occasionally music. Really, if I'm honest its just a episode of 'the inbetweeners' but with beer involved.

No beer stone is unturned.

I like that one, Beer Baptist.

Does Size Matter??

You know how some beer stores or bottle shops boast about how many beers they have?

"we stock over 17,362 beers!".

This always seems great to hear and look at but, your reality strikes (and we all know I'm a big fan of keeping it realistic).

Just like Mika Hakkinan said about Ayrton Senna "it's all about the details, the tiny tiny details"

When I see the stores or bottle shops talk about how many beers they have, the first thing I think of is :

"I wonder how many ordinary old out of date German, Belgian and English beers they ordered in to get to that sky scraper amount?"

You know what I'm taking about. Especially terrible English Ales.

The amount of stores I've seen boast about a humungous beer selection and then when you look at it, three quarters of their selection is terrible 3.5% Enlgish bitters that are skunked because they are in clear glass 500mL bottles.

I like to think that here at Platinumn Liquor we have a modest selection.

It's tight, bright and hand picked to perfection.

No mucking about.

I don't waste my time on most (most) ordinary beer from Europe, that essentially is the business for children and women on that ever so fateful 'Fathers Day' present.

"Here you go pops, your an awesome dad, ay"

Here is you pack of 10 outrageously almost out of date clear glassed English beer, strong Belgian beer and German Pilsner.

I was always told size doesn't matter anyway. You know its what you do with it that counts.

Well, that's what me last girlfriend said.

Come to think of it, I haven't had a girlfriend in a while...

I've never talked about how BIG my selection is. That is just ungentlemanly

Ladies? Beer Folk? What do you think?