The ABV Project | Southeast Asia cocktail scene

Your window into Southeast Asia’s cocktail culture.

Exploring the region’s cocktail scene through its people, passions, and places.

[Bartender Profile] Palm Supawit, Dry Wave Cocktail Studio (Bangkok)

Palm is known not just for his generosity towards his team, but also for his unapologetic love of his corgi — two things that say a lot about the kind of bar owner he is. Palm is one of Bangkok’s cocktail OGs, now running the award-winning Dry Wave Cocktail Studio after a long, influential career in the bar and spirits industry. Beyond the drinks, it’s his bubbly personality that defines the experience — the kind of hospitality where you walk in as a customer and leave as a f

[Profile] Tracia Chan, Dissolved Solids (Kuala Lumpur)

[Bartender Profile] Lucas Chee, Ikiya 2.0 (KL)

Sarissa Rodriguez-Schwartz on Cocktails and the Hospitality Industry

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Recipes

Bottle Basics

Cocktail Glasses Are Designed for Specific Drinks

Spirits of Southeast Asia: Myanmar

Spirits of Southeast Asia: Indonesia

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Editorial

Cocktail Glasses Are Designed for Specific Drinks

Cocktails are served (and drunk) in very different glasses or stemware, depending on what you order. Not all cocktail glasses are created equal because they’ve all been specially designed to enhance the flavors, aesthetics, and temperatures of the cocktails you’re drinking. Yes, there’s actually science behind your favorite bar drinks! Here are some of the most popular cocktail glasses: Highball / Collins glass These tall and narrow highball glasses (8-12oz) are compatible wi

How Bourbon Built Instagram

You wouldn’t immediately connect one of the earliest ingredients in cocktails to a photo-sharing app that now serves as the primary language of cocktail bars worldwide. But without bourbon, there might not have been Instagram – or at least, not the Instagram we know today. The Bourbon Drinker and the Bad Idea Long before filters and flat lays, Kevin Systrom was known among friends for two things: tinkering with side projects, and a genuine fondness for bourbon. Not in a conno

Spirits of Southeast Asia: Indonesia

Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state , comprising over 17,000 different islands. As a region, it has a rich history of foreign influences, both as a colonized region and a trading hub. Combined with the rich tapestry of the different tribes, ethnicities, and religious beliefs throughout its many islands, Indonesia probably produces one of the most diverse varieties of spirits in Southeast Asia. While most of the drinks are palm and rice spirits typical of the

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Book Review

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What To Drink, by Bertha E. L. Stockbridge

[Recipe] Boogie Down by Sean Halse of Hudson Rooms (Hanoi)

Cocktail Glasses Are Designed for Specific Drinks

[Recipe] Bourbon Julius by Michael Callahan (Singapore)

[Bartender Profile] Palm Supawit, Dry Wave Cocktail Studio (Bangkok)

[Profile] Tracia Chan, Dissolved Solids (Kuala Lumpur)

[Bartender Profile] Lucas Chee, Ikiya 2.0 (KL)

Sarissa Rodriguez-Schwartz on Cocktails and the Hospitality Industry

[Recipe] Boogie Down by Sean Halse of Hudson Rooms (Hanoi)

[Recipe] Bourbon Julius by Michael Callahan (Singapore)

[Recipe] Sao Noi by Miriam Nini of Stella (Bangkok)

[Recipe] Sesame 2.0 by Lal Muan Puia (Myanmar)

Cocktail Glasses Are Designed for Specific Drinks

Spirits of Southeast Asia: Myanmar

Spirits of Southeast Asia: Indonesia

Cocktail Glasses Are Designed for Specific Drinks

How Bourbon Built Instagram

Spirits of Southeast Asia: Indonesia

What To Drink, by Bertha E. L. Stockbridge

The Gentleman's Companion, Vol II: an Exotic Drinking Book, by Charles H Baker Jr

Liquid Intelligence, by Dave Arnold