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Festive dark and stormy There are certain rules that you should follow in life: Never eat yellow snow; don’t fry bacon when naked. You get the picture. But there’s also one I was taught years ago: never drink brown spirits…
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Apple crumble gin in cloudy apple juice There are days in life when ingredients just look at you and say ‘I want you to make me into gin.’ Right? OK, maybe not exactly, but let’s just say you’ve got the ingredients…
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Gins to drink this Christmas This year the Christmas spirit is going to be gin. Gin has seen an enormous increase in its popularity over the last few years (and rightfully so, it’s delicious), and this year sales are predicted to go through the…
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Cold brew amaretto cocktail We need to talk about cocktails. More specifically this cold brew amaretto cocktail. Cocktails are delicious, right? They’re a great way of mixing flavours and making drinks really interesting. There’s always time for good beers, wines…
Continue reading Raspberry gin smash What is it about summer afternoons that calls for cocktails? Once the hottest part of the day is done it’s cocktail o’clock. Bring on the raspberry gin smash. This isn’t a brand new invention in the cocktail…
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Watermelon sangria What is it about watermelon that’s so irresistible on a hot, sunny day? The vibrant colours, that cooling juice, that ‘oh damn, I forgot about the seeds’ moment. If it’s hot out and you have people around then…
Continue reading 7 gin recipes to try at home Who doesn’t love a good gin these days? Gone are the days of it being made in bathtubs - although there’s probably a hipster startup doing it somewhere… - and in are the…
Continue reading Blood orange martini Ah, the martini. Shaken or stirred, it’s one of literature’s favourite drinks. Bond’s martini is Gatsby’s champagne, and it’s never far from hand. It counted Churchill, Sinatra and Hemingway amongst its fans and is the classic that’s…
Continue reading Blood orange gin “Really? The one thing you impulse bought this weekend was a couple bags of blood oranges? Really?! What are you up to?” My friends are so kind. Sure, others impulse buy clothes, random trash online and soft…
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