One of Melbourne’s most happening music bars, Whitehart seals the good-times deal with local craft-beer heroes and on-trend cocktails mixed with house-made syrups and native ingredients.
Beer is big at Whitehart, but the producers veer small. An eclectic collection of local heroes includes Deeds, Bodriggy and Hop Nation, with the list divided into hops, yeast and malty types. Yes, there’s Carlsberg, but it’s outweighed by the indie cred of share-sized bottles and cans including Third Moon’s sour ale with blackberry from far away Canada, and Urban Alley’s barrel-aged pineapple and peach sour from nearby Docklands.
Trend-aware cocktails are mixed with house-made syrups and native ingredients – try the Bush Baby, which sees rye whiskey soothed with Brookie’s Mac macadamia and wattleseed liqueur from Byron Bay, along with vegan honey syrup and lime. Occasionally you might find that a drinks dictionary is in order. Case in point: the Honky Tonks, which sees tequila and mezcal party with falernum (a Caribbean syrup liqueur) and tepache (made with fermented pineapple rinds).
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