Coffee: Alma De Cuba
When I think of Cuba, several products come to mind. Music. Cigars. Rum. Nuclear missiles. But not, curiously, coffee. Historically, Cuba was a big coffee producer; in the 1950s, exports were exceeding...
View ArticleWaitrose Islay 12 Year Old Single Malt
I shall never understand why own-label bottlings are so often deliberately vague about who actually produced the whisky. I assume it’s a restriction imposed by the distillery, but I’ve never been able...
View ArticleCoffee: Cherizena Fairtrade Guatamalan
Guatemala is one of those countries that challenges my geographical knowledge. In my mind, it sits in the same, vaguely defined “South American” zone occupied by places like Guyana and Nicaragua –...
View ArticleWhisky: The Lost Distilleries Blend – Batch 4
Blended whisky has a bit of an image problem. Thanks to some brilliant marketing over the decades by the Scotch Whisky Association and others, consumers have “learned” that the really good whisky is...
View ArticleHiver – The Honey Beer
Ahh, honey beer. As with other beer flavourings – ginger being the prime example – the secret to a successful honey beer is walking that impossibly thin line between overwhelming the beer and tasting...
View ArticleWhisky Weekender Twitter Tasting
Today’s Twitter Tasting, hosted as ever by the wonderful folk at The Whisky Wire, is a little bit different. Firstly, rather than being focused on an individual distillery it’s a celebration of next...
View ArticleFive Points Brewery Tour-At-Home
The Five Points Brewing Co is based (where else) in Hackney, along with half of the other breweries to be found in London. It must be something in the water. The rather curious name comes from their...
View ArticleMonster Beer: Weird Beard / Northern Monk Bad Habit
It’s been far too long since I last enjoyed one of the big beers lurking in my beer fridge, and this is certainly one I’ve been looking forward to trying. Weird Beard have blown me away with their...
View ArticleCoffee: East India Company Galapagos Enchanted Islands
The East India Company is a name with 400 years of history, which has been talked about by people far smarter than me. Although immediately associated in my mind with tea, from the very beginning it...
View ArticleWhisky Wednesday: Johnnie & Ginger
This is an experimental excerpt, to see if this stuff actually works in my shiny new theme. How cool would it be if it did?!Read more »
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