I try to keep up to date with the latest news going on in this wonderful industry, and always on the look out for big stories on gin, whisky, rum, etc, and this year the whisky category keeps throwing up one name time and time again, therefore I decided to do a little bit of research and get hold of some Ardbeg Supernova 2010. …
Ardbeg’s shining star – the Supernova 2010
October 25th, 2010 Posted in Bottle Review
Oct, 25 2010
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Four Roses Dinner
October 20th, 2010 Posted in Behind the Bottle, Visits
Oct, 20 2010
Hopefully by now everyone that was lucky enough to visit London Cocktail Week has recovered, but it wouldn’t surprise me if not! This was a week full of fun and games, master classes, and competitions, all in all a hell of a lot of fun. Now, I got the chance to go check out a couple of things, but without doubt the highlight of my LCW experience was an evening spent with some fellow bloggers in the company of Jim Rutledge, master distiller at Four Roses Bourbon. …
Rum, the new winter warmer?
October 19th, 2010 Posted in Bottle Review, Ideas
Oct, 19 2010
Well even though we managed a couple of decent weekends in October, it is definitely time to dig out the winter comforts. While some are going for whisky or brandy, maybe it’s time you gave something new a try? We are all familiar with the light style rums that are commonly drunk with a mixer or more elaborately in cocktails, but where did all this come from, and was this always how we have drink it? …
Oct, 06 2010
‘The rise and fall of the green fairy.’ Those were the words that grabbed my attention at the bottom of an email I received some time ago, and this was one not to be missed. Absinthe is one of thos products that people don’t generally know a great deal about, myself included. I think in a lot of ways people are almost scared by it, it has this huge cloud hanging over it, and if I take nothing else from my day at the Boutique Bar Show, I will no longer be scared of Absinthe.…
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