My favourite gin bar – the Oliver Conquest, near Aldgate East – has created an Italian inspired pop up bar in their upstairs room. It focuses on cocktails with a twist, showcasing the Italian Negroni, all served with Italian style snacks. Originally conceived as a month long pop up for November, they are continuing to…
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Ish gin tasting
One of my favourite gin bars – the Oliver Conquest, regularly hosts gin tasting evenings to promote new and unusual gins that they stock (they have over 300 gins currently – so plenty to try!). For November there is a double whammy gin tasting – with Ish and Copperhead – so obviously I dragged some…
A Gin Lush’s Guide to London Cocktail Week
London Cocktail Week 2015 kicks off on the 5th October (tomorrow), so I thought I’d pull together my guide on what gin-tastic events to check out! Sunday 4th – pre LCW warm up party ‘A FEW in the loo‘ 7pm FREE FEW spirits are bringing their Whiskey and Gin to North London, with a party…
3 steps to convert a gin “hater” into a “gin lover”
As everyone reading this should know, I love gin❤️❤️❤️ What I really struggle with are people who say they “hate” gin. I mean hate is a strong word! Plus in these days with such a vast selection of gin available – not just your grannies Gordon and tonic – I truly believe there is something…
Gin tasting @ 214Bermondsey
My day job is based at the More London Place development – between London Bridge and Tower Bridge – so obviously I had to find the nearest gin bar to take my colleagues to, which turned out to be around the corner on Bermondsey Street – 214 Bermondsey to be precise. 214 is the address…
Junipalooza 2015!
What do you get when you have 23 distillers together in one room for World Gin day? Junipalooza!! The festival of gin 🙂 I was excited to go try out a load of new gins – each distiller had more than one gin, so Laura and I had our work cut out trying them all…
Bobby’s Gin tasting
Another month means another ‘gin of the month’ at The Oliver Conquest and June’s is Bobby’s. So naturally I dragged some friends and colleagues along to the tasting! We met the lovely Sebastian, here popping up behind a wall of Bobby’s Gin bottles! He explained the origins of his gin, a long time family recipe,…
World Gin Day 2015 – where to celebrate!
Wondering where to celebrate World Gin Day tomorrow Saturday 13 June 2015? Here’s a brief list of suggestions! London Junipalooza The gin festival run by the Gin Foundry (this is where you will find me!), unfortunately it’s fully booked out now, but look out for future events The Oliver Conquest On Leman Street by Aldgate East….
Gin Palace gin tasting
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…
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…