The bars, pubs and clubs of Australia are this nation’s great meeting places. We catch up in them. We play out nervous first dates in them. We deliriously celebrate penalty shoot-out wins in them. We kill time in them. And sometimes we even drink in them.
Although colonisers brought British drinking culture with them, Australia’s drinks culture – like most aspects of life here – has become increasingly globalised over the past two centuries. Considering the role drinking plays in our day-to-day (for better or worse), it’s no surprise that these paradigm shifts often unfold at bars, pubs and anywhere people congregate to drink and chat. Sometimes these changes are the work of canny operators looking for a point of difference in evermore competitive markets. Other times they’re simply a product
