March 2013
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January 2013
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June 2012
2 posts
The Wrath of Grapes
The Wrath of Grapes
Imbibing has itsusually results in a series of side-effects. Soon after these effects where felt, the noble search for a cure has been a goal of many discerning drinkers. I shall not bore you with modern details of Vasopressin Inhibition or the Glutamine Rebound preventing you reaching the depths of sleep. Instead I shall provide a selection of elaborate cures…
Bathing – a...
Old fashioned drinking
Recently after months of self promise, I’ve started watching ‘mad men’ .A drama about one of New York’s most prestigious ad agencies at the beginning of the 1960s, focusing on one of the firm’s most mysterious but extremely talented ad executives, Donald Draper. The early 60’s seemed like a very stylish time to live in, a time when every man had a shiny side parting greased up by...
May 2012
1 post
The Old House, where everybody knows your name
The Bloody Mary. A nice way to start the day.
Whether you’re following up an evening on the ales or you’ve just skipped breakfast a Bloody Mary is a wonderful way to start any day, as long as it’s done properly! Fortunately for me at the old house they seem to have it down to a fine art. With ingredients including Sheffield’s own Hendo’s and a nice dab of Tabasco sauce, a...
April 2012
4 posts
In Floods of Beers
In Floods of Beers
One Monday in the middle of October almost a million and a half liters of beer gushed onto the streets of London’s West End, while the Napoleonic Wars raged in Europe. A chain reaction had occurred when a vat of porter ruptured in the brewery of Meux and Company on Tottenham Court Road.
The torrent of beer destroyed two homes and flowed into neighboring basements; tragically...
10 things trappist
1. You don’t need to be a monk to brew Trappist beers, as long as you brew the beer within Trappist Abbey walls and under the monks’ supervision. Laymen brew Orval within the Abbey walls, not monks. There are around 30 of them. Imagine the staff party.
2. The Trappists look after each other. Monks from the Westmalle and Rochefort abbeys helped Achel rebuild its brewery in 1998, when I had just...
if you're going to do it...
Do it right.
Obviously this applies to everything in life but in this instance I’m referring to bartending.
Everybody including you will have a story of a mardy bartender or an instance where you’ve had to down a drink to shorten the time in which the punishment of a drink lasted. This shouldn’t happen but it still does.
At the time of writing this I was on a train coming back from Edinburgh...
Crafty.
Crafty.
“It’s skinny lads in their twenties who’re passionate about this stuff” – Tony Naylor, Restaurant magazine.
I am one of those lanky lads.
For the last couple of weeks I have been asking myself why I am. Why I get excited at the sight of a beer I’ve never seen before or why I think when I see somebody in a goose island t-shirt in the street that me and him would be great friends.
It made...
