Olsson’s Cocktail Salt Launch at Icebergs, Bondi

On 26 September 2023, Trolley’d founder Byron Woolfrey served two cocktails from an airline trolley at Icebergs Dining Room and Bar in Bondi Beach. He created the Backhousia Margarita and Sky High Sour for Olsson’s new cocktail salts. Trolley’d also bottled both drinks for the brand’s World Margarita Day press packs.

Two salts, two cocktails

Backhousia Margarita

Byron paired quandong-infused Altos tequila with Trolley’d lemon myrtle syrup and fresh lemon juice. The first sip picked up chilli and the smoke of red gum from Olsson’s Smokin’ Chilli Cocktail Salt on the rim. The lemon myrtle in the glass carried the citrus aroma into the next sip.

Our house Lemon Myrtle Margarita recipe uses a saltbush and mountain pepper leaf rim.

Sky High Sour

For the second glass, Byron combined plum stone-infused vodka, Illawarra plum and lavender syrup, cold-pressed pineapple, fresh lemon juice and a dash of lemon myrtle tisane. The pink rim came from Olsson’s Native Citrus Cocktail Salt. Its plum powder and lemon myrtle picked up two flavours already in the shaker. For a different way to use the fruit at home, see our Illawarra plum syrup recipe.

At Icebergs, chef Alex Prichard built the food menu around the salts. Olsson’s launch card credits Alex for the menu and Byron for both cocktails.

Bottled cocktails for World Margarita Day

After the Bondi launch, we worked with Olsson’s on labels for the bottled Backhousia Margarita and Sky High Sour. The kraft paper and white lettering picked up the design of the salt tins. Each bottle carried the name of the cocktail beneath the words “Pour Your Own”.

For World Margarita Day on 22 February 2024, Trolley’d hand-filled both drinks in square 100 mL glass bottles for Olsson’s press packs. We also made a lemon myrtle cocktail spritz in a separate 50 mL atomiser.

Campaign and Icebergs photographs from the Olsson’s Salt archive. Bottling film and trolley photograph from Trolley’d. Olsson’s Salt on Instagram, @olssonssalt.

For the supplier’s two blends and their ingredients, see Drinks Digest’s November 2023 coverage of the Olsson’s cocktail salt range.

Native Citrus also rims our Jaime Bravo tequila and pineapple cocktail. In our quandong and mulberry leaf cocktail, we use a different Olsson’s salt, Smoked Red Gum, in the foam.