My friends based in Walthamstow have been telling me for ages about a little industrial estate where a brewery and a gin palace sit opposite each other. So when I headed up there to see them a few weeks ago we made it to the Ravenswood Industrial Estate and the Wild Card Brewery & Mother’s Ruin: …
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Gin tasting @ Bath Christmas market!
Last week was the inaugral Hughes’ parent Christmas party in Bath, and it coincided with the last weekend of the Bath Christmas Market. Those of you who follow me on twitter will have seen the numerous tweets and photos from the weekend, but for everyone else here it is: Me, holding my invisible champagne glass, outside…
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…
LCW volunteer reunion!
I’ve remained in contact with a few of the people I met whilst volunteering at London Cocktail Week – always useful to know people in bars, to get in, for free drinks etc… And we decided to meet up for some drinks, which quickly turned into a cocktail crawl in East London! We started out…
Gin Glorious Gin!
The lovely Sara at the Oliver Conquest gave me a copy of this book – Gin Glorious Gin, How Mother’s Ruin Became the Spirit of London. Immediately you can see what the attraction would be for me! Recently published, written by Olivia Williams, it’s a comprehensive history of gin, right up to the modern day. …
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…
Gin Aroma Academy
Gin Club (well Catherine and I) attended the Gin Aromas event at the Wine and Spirits Education Trust (WSET) on Bermondsey street. The lovely Kim Lahiri from the Aromas Academy explained how they came up with their aromas and how these could then be used as standardised aromas for educating and calibrating the nose. Dr…
Cocktail crawls with #LCW14
Forget Friday – every night is the cocktail night this week! Earlham street decorated for LCW! This week, 6-12 October 2014, is London Cocktail Week and seeing as I don’t have a job yet I volunteered to help them out from the goodness of my heart – oh and in exchange for a free wrist…
DF | Mexico & Gin-age
As my stalkers were in town pre Lee Evans comedy show and they came into Liverpool Street I took the opportunity to take them to DF Mexico at the back of the Old Truman Brewery on Hanbury Street. I’ve been dying to go here since they launched and finally I’ve made it!! DF stands for…
Bath Gin at the Canary
I was down in Bath last week to say hello to my new nephew – little Dylan Hugo! And as is often the case this meant trying a new bar with the parents – I finally got to the Canary, the home of Bath Gin. Mum & Dad outside the Canary. Mum was on a…