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How to make a mojito that’d make Hemingway happy

June 23, 2010 Food & drink
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‘Mojito’ means ‘something wet’.  It’s a perfect summer drink, long, cool, refreshing and sweet. Unsurprisingly, the mojito has it’s origins in the Caribbean, in Cuba, specifically.  Legendary drinker Ernest Hemingway was a fan, and wrote “mi mojito en la Bodeguita”, which translates as ‘my mojito at the Bodeguita’, on the wall of his favourite Havana [...]

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Brewdog’s Paradox Imperial stout – seriously strong beer

March 3, 2010 Food & drink
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Brewdog is a small Scottish brewery with a formidable reputation for creating a marketing stir. They’ve been chasing controversy since 2007 with a combination of marketing stunts, engaging with social media and some ridiculously strong beer, peaking with last year’s Tactical Nuclear Penguin at a collosal 32% ABV.  That’s a beer that will literally knock [...]

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Jenning’s Snecklifter

December 17, 2009 Food & drink
Jenning's Snecklifter Lakeland beer

Another classic Lakeland beer, from the recently flood-hit and therefore underwater Jenning’s Brewery in Cockermouth, Cumbria, Sneck Lifter is a deep, dark and rich beer with a coffee flavour and a malty finish. It’s a warming winter beer, with a potent dark red colour. Jenning’s make much of the name.  A “sneck lifter” is a [...]

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The Old Tramshed, Saltaire

October 17, 2009 Eating out
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We’d planned to eat at The Boathouse, a newly renovated pub/restaurant on the river at the bottom of Saltaire village.  It’s a slick and modern looking place which inexplicably stops serving food at 8pm despite having a large dining room, doesn’t run a reservations system and was packed by the time we arrived. It soon [...]

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Grozet – Scottish gooseberry beer

June 19, 2009 Food & drink
Grozet gooseberry beer

Grozet is a gooseberry flavoured beer from William Bros. Brewing Company, a Scottish brewer based in Alloa who specialise in the historic or slightly esoteric end of the market. William Bros. brew a range of unusual beers, Grozet being the prime example. It’s a heritage beer, based on a 16th century beer brewed at harvest [...]

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Doom Bar and Eden Pure Ale from Sharp’s Brewery, Cornwall

June 5, 2009 Food & drink
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Year’s ago, in the seas around the Cornish town of Padstow, there lived a mermaid. As mermaids do, she fell in love with a local fisherman, and tried to lure him beneath the waves, into her realm. The fisherman, in terror, and fearing for his life, shot her to escape. In her dying moments, the [...]

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