Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder
‘Je me tiens toujours fidèle à la sorcière glauque.’ Thus speaks Enoch Soames, eponymous anti-hero of Max...
Category Archives: Spirits and Beers
Collingwood whisky
[caption id="attachment_1433" align="alignleft" width="284" caption="Collingwood, the latest Canadian whisky"][/caption] Vice Admiral Lord Collingwood (Cuthbert to his family)...
A little bit more Yorkshire
[caption id="attachment_1296" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="There's a welcome in the Dales..."][/caption] This sign was spotted in the front window...
Down into Wensleydale
[caption id="attachment_1287" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="A fine day in Arkengarthdale, Yorkshire"][/caption] Today we hiked over Shunner Fell, third highest...
Canada’s Innocent Gun
[caption id="attachment_1245" align="alignleft" width="662" caption="The Canadian brew"][/caption] A beautiful coincidence… I have just been writing about Innis &...
The Shackleton whisky
[caption id="attachment_1135" align="alignleft" width="226" caption="Shackleton's hut at Cape Royds on a fine Antarctic day"][/caption] I love this story....
Me Jimmy, you Hendrick’s
[caption id="attachment_1113" align="alignleft" width="181" caption="This brilliant device measures the amount of gin left in a Hendrick's bottle."][/caption] If...
Mastiha
[caption id="attachment_1037" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Skinos Mastiha - unique and indescribable"][/caption] An island shaped like a peanut, 50 kilometres...
Three more shopping days left
[caption id="attachment_867" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Mon dieu..."][/caption] I came across a bottle of Hine Rare VSOP Cognac the other...
The Toronto Temperance Society
[caption id="attachment_851" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Bijou, prepared by Shane Roberts at the Toronto Temperance Society"][/caption] It’s such an...