Welcome!! This blog lets me share my love of gin and beer with the world. I'm an official supporter of International Scottish Gin Day and judge for the 2021 Gin Guide Awards
I’m not about to sit here today and give you background on Hrafn or why I love them so much or how I came to start getting to know them… Those stories are in my previous reviews for them which you can find here: Hrafn Winter Review Hrafn Valhalla Review I think with this review... Continue Reading →
Hello. You’ve caught me thinking about 2020…. What a pile of shite that was, eh? **if the images don't open please refresh the page... technology hates me but I promise there are photos 🙄 It started off with such hope… Such… Possibility. We had a great Christmas and New Year. I had changed posting in... Continue Reading →
“People, Provenance, Place”
My relationship with Brentingby is one that I’m extremely grateful for. I won’t rehash information and stories that I’ve already gave you… I wouldn’t want to bore you… I give a bit of background on that in my review of Brentingby Dry Gin… Which you can read later via this link ---> Brentingby London Dry... Continue Reading →
Sometimes things happen and those things are unexpected. Like a couple of months ago I got myself involved in a cocktail making challenge with my old pal Katie Hughes (Katie's Instagram). We had discussed the wonderful Martinez a few times in the past and had rehashed the chat whilst wandering about the Gin To My... Continue Reading →
I put a tweet up a couple of months ago in relation to getting suggestions for gins to do for my Pandemic Praise series. I wrote the criteria and awaited any additional brands that fit it that I wasn't aware of. There was the suggestion of Batch. I went away, read up, and, unfortunately, came... Continue Reading →
Much like in our day-to-day lives, we have a certain expectation of gin and what it is, how it tastes, whats in it etc… However… At this exact moment we are living during a time where nothing is as we expect it to be… People have been prevented from going to work… The bars, restaurants... Continue Reading →
So yesterday I put up a video talking about my intention for showing some support to the gin industry for all their efforts in supporting frontline workers and vulnerable folk within their local communities. I had quite a few messages from brands saying they were also making sanitiser or doing x, y, or z. I... Continue Reading →
Cast your mind back to a couple of years ago… Before I had a Twitter… Heartbreaking, right?... I know it seems like I’ve been floating about talking nonsense for a long time… But I haven’t... Not on social media anyway... Anyway… Bring your memories a little further forward to September 2018. A new gin was... Continue Reading →
Just over a year ago we were on the approach to the Glasgow Gin To My Tonic festival. Twitter and Instagram starting filling up with the announcements and, subsequent to that, the announced brands and distillers started creating posts around their products and what they’d be offering on the day. A post that stood out... Continue Reading →
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