This month Doug at The Pegu Blog is hosting Mixology Monday and as usual it is our task, as fellow bloggers, to come up with drink recipes so that we can all laugh at each other.
Doug’s theme is Made From Scratch and what an awesome theme! - Particularly for me, because I absolutely love making [...]
Over the last month i’ve been fortunate enough to take on the additional role as the Smirnoff Black (as featured in The Quantum of Solace - seriously, check out the bar in Haiti) Ambassador for the UK. This means I get to drive an Aston Martin… Ok it doesn’t really, but it does mean that [...]
I’ve been working hard to sort out the much neglected Cocktail Section of the website. After taking a long hard look at it and realising that it was really only some recipes pasted into a long list, the OCD took over.
So, what we now have is a neat title page listing cocktails by individual spirits. [...]
There is something not quire right about this… selling beer made famous by a children’s cartoon show. I’m half expecting the bottles to actually be squashy toys.
The beer is bottled in Mexico by some guy who managed to aquire the patent, which reminds me of a quote from the film Desperado:
Very angry lady: “Your beer [...]

I’ve been working on this one for quite some time now, much more substantial than the Rum Timeline and hopefully just as interesting.
Origin of the name
Abbreviation from the dutch jenever (jenever, jeniever, juneva, genever, genevrer… etc.), the spirit from which gin evolved. Jenever itself thought to come from the french word for juniper: genévrier.
It’s not every day you get to meet one of your bartending heroes. It certainly isn’t every day that you get to meet two.
Well yesterday I did!
For anyone not in the know, Simon Difford (Hero 1) was the founder of CLASS magazine and he then went on to write the Difford’s Guide (formerly Sauce Guide) [...]