Category: Drink
Bars
I have the questionable fortune to live in Woolwich. My flat is nice enough but to get anywhere remotely civilised requires 25 minutes of sharing a train with the …
Beer
I have often said that Meantime IPA is not only the best India Pale Ale I have tried but also my favourite beer ever. Yet I have been told …
Bars
A new Young’s pub has opened in the development I reside in here in horrible, horrible Woolwich. This is one of the much touted improvements to the area that …
General
This alcoholic ginger beer is very easy to drink, could it be the next drinking fad of the summer? If so I feel at the cutting edge of cool. …
Beer
Today three of us went out for the best burger I have ever had at London’s best meat restaurant. After such heady heights two of us thought a beer …
Bars
Regular readers will perhaps not be surprised to read that my drinking buddy at the Union earlier was my close personal associate ‘The Kid’ Peter, we wanted an unpretentious …
Bars
Last night at Hawksmoor I drank one of the most compelling cocktails I’ve consumed in my life. I’ve had other attempts at this cocktail many times in the past, …
Media rubbish
You may recall that a couple of weeks ago Buckfast Tonic Wine was fingered as being a major cause of violence in Strathclyde, Scotland. I thought I had dealt …
Media rubbish
The BBC reports that a bunch of neo-prohibitionists are complaining that a Welsh language festival is planning to start serving alcohol. Selling alcohol (with food) seems a good idea …
Media rubbish
The neo-prohibitionist’s favoured uncritical press-release reporter, the BBC News website, tells us we are drinking less. The amount of people buying alcohol from an off-license in the past year …