DRINKING LITERATURE

A few months after taking the 22nd spot on Asia’s 50 Best Bars list,

The Old Man Singapore has launched version two of its menu. Just like the first, the new cocktails take inspiration from Ernest Hemingway’s oeuvre. Take A Movable Feast, for instance. It’s a modernist spin on a Bloody Mary with clarified, spiced cherry tomato water, coconut, basil, and distilled seawater all infused with cheese wax. The result is a crystal clear, savoury-sweet-spicy cocktail with all the nuances of a Bloody

Mary – except you don’t feel like you’re drinking boozy soup. The bar has also collaborated with The 1925 Brewing Co. to launch an amber lager brewed with Wild Turkey-infused oak for a relatively more sessionable pint informed by the flavours of an Old Fashioned.