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Master of Cocktails – The Brandy Crusta
Master of Cocktails – The Brandy Crusta

Right then ladies and gentlemen. Time for week’s #MasterofCocktails, featuring a Brandy Crusta recipe – a real life classic. This is a smashing drink, first brought to my attention by…

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Master of Cocktails – Coffee Cocktail
Master of Cocktails – Coffee Cocktail

Well hello there Flip fans – it’s time for another #MasterofCocktails. This week, we have a Coffee Cocktail recipe for you. Confusingly enough, there’s absolutely no coffee (liqueur format or…

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Master of Cocktails – The Japanese Cocktail
Master of Cocktails – The Japanese Cocktail

Right then ladies and gentlemen – for this week’s #MasterofCocktails we made a Japanese Cocktail. It’s one of those oft-forgotten classics that really does work very well indeed if made…

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The Eccentric History of Berry Brothers and Rudd — Part II
The Eccentric History of Berry Brothers and Rudd — Part II

The first George Berry was born in 1787 and, at the impressionable age of 16, made the two-day journey from Exeter to London, in which city he remained. He would…

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Master of Cocktails – Vieux Carré Noeleux
Master of Cocktails – Vieux Carré Noeleux

This week’s #MasterofCocktails recipe is an absolutely stunning, christmassy twist on one of the true classics. The Vieux Carré dates back to the 1930s, but as we’re creeping ever closer…

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Master of Cocktails – Christmassy Ginger Sour
Master of Cocktails – Christmassy Ginger Sour

Here we are, in the second week of advent already! It must be time for the first, but definitely not the last, #MasterofCocktails Christmassy drink of December, this one being…

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Master of Cocktails – Eggnog
Master of Cocktails – Eggnog

Last week, we gave you the choice between a classic summer cocktail or something more wintery and, overwhelmingly, the good people of twitter voted for a winter #MasterofCocktails option. So,…

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Glenfarclas & Hine 1953 – The Auld Alliance
Glenfarclas & Hine 1953 – The Auld Alliance

Back at the end of May, just before all the busyness and rushing about, Ben and I attended a very special event, which I was no doubt supposed to write…

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Important Changes to Shipping…
Important Changes to Shipping…

It is with a heavy heart that we inform you that as of 14 January 2013, new aviation transport regulations have gone into effect that will make it *very* difficult…

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New Product entitled… erm… “Brown Drink”
New Product entitled… erm… “Brown Drink”

So – we’ve been doing our Drinks by the Dram whisky sample service for almost a year now, and in that time have decanted ‘loads’ of 700ml bottles into…

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Courvoisier Cognac with an Age Statement
Courvoisier Cognac with an Age Statement

For the first time ever, one of France’s big Cognac houses has started putting age statements on its products. Courvoisier have begun labelling Cognacs just like we do in the…

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