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…

Pigs Nose & Sheep Dip

Posted on Friday, February 1st, 2008 | No Comments

Well that got your attention.
They sound like something that you do to the geeky kids at school but these two are actually a couple of really nice blended scotch whiskys. Wadebridge Wines kindly sent me a couple of sample bottles recently with a view to replacing Bailie-Nicol- Jarvie which has served me well for the [...]

Merry Christmas

Posted on Monday, December 24th, 2007 | No Comments

Thanks for the support from all who read this blog, I hope you all have a very happy Christmas.  
Here’s what i’ll be doing on Christmas day (amongst eating and sleeping). A half-bottle of Laphroaig ‘advance sample’ distilled in April 1992.