Clyde Mooney, Author at PubTIC

NEW RELEASE HEARTBREAK PINOT GIN FINDING TRUTH IN NAME

Posted on May 6th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney

Acclaimed Victorian distillery Bass & Flinders has put forth its much anticipated second release of the sell-out Heartbreak Pinot Gin, in a nod and complement to the ‘Heartbreak’ grape. The distillery’s inaugural release of Heartbreak Pinot-Noir Gin sold out in

LORD ROBERTS UP FOR GRABS

Posted on May 4th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney

Darlinghurst icon the Lord Roberts Hotel is for sale as a freehold going concern, for the first time in close to a century. A ‘Public House’ first appeared on the Stanley Street site in 1871, named the Shannon Hotel. In

THE FRIEND FINDS COLOSIMO IN NEED

Posted on May 4th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney

Glebe stalwart the Friend In Hand Hotel has been sold by Wallaby publican Bill Young to Marcello Colosimo’s Momento Hospitality. In a return to fortune, Young bought the pub in 2019 for around $10 million. His father and the Young

EASY-PREP MEALS OFFERING PUBS EASY SOLUTIONS

Posted on May 4th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney

Food Equity Group (FEG) is supplying pubs with easy-prep meal solutions in popular styes, which don’t require a chef or special equipment. FEG’s ‘Smoky Addiction’ and ‘Sticky Addiction’ product packs contain everything required for the serve, including sauces and meat.

PIPER LANDS MEREWETHER’S BEACH

Posted on May 2nd, 2022 by Clyde Mooney

Property guru Glenn Piper has sealed the deal on Andrew Lazarus’ magnificent Beach Hotel at Merewether, in another new record for the Newcastle region. The large-format heritage-listed pub occupies a 1,850sqm site just three kilometres from the Newcastle CBD, with

PENDLE INN HOTEL THE LATEST BIG WESTERN SYDNEY SALE

Posted on May 2nd, 2022 by Clyde Mooney

Another big western Sydney pub has sold, with a private family the latest riding the gravy train on skyrocketing values through sale of their rail-side Pendle Inn Hotel. Established in the 1950s by the vendors, the pub’s sale now represents

UNIONS VOW TO BLOCK JOHN CURTIN REDEVELOPMENT

Posted on May 2nd, 2022 by Clyde Mooney

Union heartland the John Curtin Hotel has been sold to an unnamed developer, but the city is fighting its demise and unions have vowed to make hell for any proposed project. Built in the 1870s, across from the Victorian Trades Hall

LAUNDY’S NEW LOG CABIN ‘ON FIRE’

Posted on April 29th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney

Team Laundy has welcomed a sizeable portion of western Sydney through the doors of the brand-new Log Cabin Hotel Penrith, for a look at the return of a legend. Established way back in 1826, when an enterprising ferryman built somewhere

ROYAL OAK TURNS A NEW LEAF

Posted on April 29th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney

Cessnock’s Royal Oak Hotel is in fresh new hands again, with a Newsome-Horvath partnership finding new life in the old Oak. Built in 1922 on a prominent corner in the gateway to the Hunter Valley, the large brick hotel features

PATRONS ARE BACK, BUT SOME BEHAVING BADLY

Posted on April 29th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney

Marking a somewhat macabre return to normality after two years in limbo, antisocial pub patrons around the country are finding fresh convictions for bad behaviour. A man allegedly stabbed another man outside a Canberra pub, but has been granted bail. 26-year-old Hayden