When in Italy recently I was lucky enough to sample the delights of Chino, a can of deliciously bitter coke alternative. Marketed as a soft drink for adults this stuff is absolutely brilliant and if I get a chance i’m going to try and make my own.
The taste is so bitter and yet sooo good! [...]
For anyone who reads other blogs to do with drink and specifically cocktails, Mixology Monday will probably be nothing new to you. I have been following the progress of MxMo for the last year with great interest and I have to say it is a brilliant idea.
The way it works is this: Once a month [...]

My favourite drink as a boy was always cola, but I distinctly remember another contender which I rarely got a chance to enjoy, but when I did - it was amazing. It still surprises me how few people have actually tasted D&B as a child, for me it embodies all the sweet delight of being a young scally living in the countryside, as I did. [...]
An Interesting little article with a great timeline of coke advertising all the way from 1906 to present day. I love some of the earlier ads, the first one is probably my favourite, it’s also interesting that the price didn’t go up from 5 cents for years.
7pm on SKY channel 259 (UKTV Food) tonight. Repeated in UKTV Food +1 also on around lunchtime as well I think. Check it out, had a bit of fun filming this one so should be interesting to see how it turns out!
EDIT: Scrap that, completely my mistake, it was on today at lunchtime but that [...]
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 [...]