Johnnie Walker Tasting with Ian Williams

Posted on Friday, May 30th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Johnnie Blue
A week in to the new job and already i’ve been fortunate enough to spend the day in Bristol (…keep reading, it gets better) at a Johnnie Walker Blue Label tasting with Ian Williams the master distiller.

If you want to know a bit more about Johnnie Walker feel free to contact me, but the general gist is this: John Walker started blending whisky back in 1820 in his grocers shop in Kilmarnock [...]

Caffeine is (as I suspected) good for you

Posted on Friday, April 4th, 2008 | No Comments

The BBC report today that daily caffeine intake (tea and coffee) can help protect the vital barrier between brain and blood supply, this in turn can help prevent neurological disorders (loosing your mind). Read more here… 

Americano or Filter?

Posted on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 | 10 Comments

Filter
Make no mistake, i’m an espresso boy. My career in coffee has developed from a love of espresso and the milky drinks that go with it, for me filter has until now been a cheap and easy way to stew coffee to the brink of glorious insipid death. It’s only in the last year that I have really come to appreciate the potential genius of good filter coffee, as well as other brewing methods and i’m pretty excited about it…

Dr Ernesto Illy dies age 83

Posted on Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 | No Comments

Perhaps the original coffee geek, Dr Illy headed Illycaffe for almost 60 years and in that time took coffee to the next level through exploring espresso chemistry, development and research into coffee. For more info see SCAE.
Ernesto Illy 1925-2008

Homemade Cola Recipe

Posted on Saturday, January 19th, 2008 | 13 Comments

Continuing my season of homemade soft drink recipes, next up is cola.
My recipe for cola is an adaption of the Cube Cola recipe which is in turn an adaption of the OpenCola recipe. My personal project would not have been possible without the groundwork put in by those guys. Loads of people have told me [...]

Matching Food/Drink

Posted on Friday, November 23rd, 2007 | 1 Comment

Jim over at www.jimseven.com has discovered a very cool website with diagrams that illustrate relationships between many common flavours used in cookery and mixology. I think it could be very handy when matching flavours for drinks.