How to Make Cocktails at Home over Christmas

Posted on Saturday, November 29th, 2008 | 3 Comments

Following on from my radio stuff recently, I’ve compiled a guide for anyone who fancies staying in over the festive season, with a few tips for how to make some nice cocktails.
Wherever cocktails are involved, preparation is usually required. Don’t think of them as drinks, but little starters. You wouldn’t throw a dish together at [...]

Radio Feature

Posted on Thursday, November 27th, 2008 | No Comments

I’m current curled up in my travelodge room in central London fighting off the makings of a cold as I prepare for a radio recording session this afternoon.
I’ll be heading over to the Smooth FM studios to do a feature on entertaining at home over Christmas. Fortunately this one isn’t live, I say this one, [...]

Mixology Monday: Made From Scratch

Posted on Monday, November 10th, 2008 | 1 Comment

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 [...]

Smirnoff Black Barbers

Posted on Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 | No Comments

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 [...]

Cocktail Section Revamp

Posted on Sunday, October 26th, 2008 | No Comments

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. [...]

Real Duff Beer

Posted on Friday, October 24th, 2008 | 4 Comments

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 [...]