Due to London wine week I sort of missed world gin day. It was a rivalry between drinking local and drinking global. Of course this isn’t entirely true. I did manage to have a lunch involving several gin and tonics and a gin and tonic smoke salmon (yay pished fish) bagel, which was all of…
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Boozers without Borders
My boss organises a charity craft beer night. Its to raise funds for refugees. Craft beer. Helping Refugees. Organised by my boss. It’d be rude not to! Except that this is the third one he’s organised, but the first one I’ve actually made it to. The format is simple. You give them money, they give…
It’s gin oop north
The other half of the christmas present from my sister was a hamper of gins. Last night we opened the largest of the bottles (still only 40cl). It’s a gin called Masons and it’s from somewhere in Yorkshire. It’s a London Gin made in small copper stills. When I first opened it there was a…
Hippy Wine
I went to a wine tasting. Quelle Surprise. In my regular coffee shop, just round the corner from work, there was a ‘bio-dynamic, organic and free range (or something along those lines) tasting. This was last week and the tl;dr is that I was so uninspired I’ve struggled to even write a review. Me. 5…
Whisky in the jar-o
I like to try many many different whisky’s. This could potentially get incredibly expensive – either having to go to a bar and spend £Lots or buying whole bottles of many whisky’s and spending £Lots. This is where those good people at Drinks by the Dram come in amazingly handy! They basically make miniatures out of bottles…
Nerdy Booze 