I was lucky to be invited to a special gin tasting event at The Clanchan last month, with Olivia Williams, gin expert and author of Gin Glorious Gin! Olivia took us through the history of gin as covered in her book. We went through the up and downs, as gin flipped into and out of…
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Tasting Ferdinand’s Quince Gin
As part of my favourite gin bar’s promotion of their Gin of Month, The Oliver Conquest holds a FREE gin tasting once a month. This month the only day I had to break the clean eating challenge was to taste Ferdinand’s new Quince gin liqueur. The Ferdinand family – original gin with 30 botanticals on the…
The Sacred drink: Gin
After a long break, my first gin of the year at The Oliver Conquest was only on the 3rd March! I know over 2 months without a visit – I think that’s a record, at least for when I’ve actually been in the country. The first visit of the year coincided (not by accident) with…
Half Hitch Gin Tasting
New Year New Gin! The Half Hitch Gin tasting at The Oliver Conquest actually happened before Christmas, but its been so busy so I didn’t get a chance to post about it before now… Now I’m super excited about Half Hitch as it combines two of my passions – gin and Camden! Its made by…
Double whammy gin tasting!
November was the Oliver Conquest’s 4th birthday so it seemed fitting to have back to back gin tastings! Gin Club with a Reading Problem was well represented at both. November’s gin of the month was Ferdinand Saar and Eric had come all the way over from Germany for the tasting. Also up was one of Gin…
Greenhook Gin tasting
Greenhook gin is the gin of the month at the Oliver Conquest for October, so Gin Club with a Reading Problem decided to go along to the FREE gin tasting 🙂 Daniella from Amathus drinks gave us a brief talk about the history of gin and then Siobhan from the Oliver Conquest talked more specifically…