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Ryan Reynolds, free rosé, a gin-based streaming service and a world-record breaking whisky. All on this week’s Nightcap. It’s now raining and grey and miserable again at MoM Towers, which…

August 21, 2020Master of Malt

iVictor Yarbrough, the co-founder of Brough Brothers Bourbon joins us to talk about race, family, making a positive impact in the community and more. “Booze is a good old boy…

August 20, 2020Adam O'Connell

One of the best answers to the naysayers who claim Scotch doesn’t mix well, the Blood and Sand has stood the test of time for good reason. Here’s how to…

August 19, 2020Adam O'Connell

For the second and final instalment of our series on Icelandic spirits, we explore the island’s native flavours and traditions, from sheep dung-smoked spirits to fermented shark chasers, reveal the…

August 18, 2020Annie Hayes

We’re toasting the start of the week with a brand new Champagne from Bollinger. Don’t worry about the baffling-sounding name, everything will become clear shortly. ‘PN VZ15’, it doesn’t quite…

August 17, 2020Henry Jeffreys

A cocktail in a tin made by actual distillers with the same attention to detail you get with spirits? We’re intrigued. It’s high time we checked out NÜTRL’s shiny new…

August 17, 2020Master of Malt

We’ve got important causes, distillery expansions, trade tariff news and a Scotch whisky distillery asking fans to pick its new whisky from the cask. This week’s Nightcap is a corker….

August 14, 2020Master of Malt

Delightfully creamy, indulgent and very very cold, our serve this week is air conditioning in a glass. Just the thing as the heat wave doesn’t show any signs of stopping. …

August 12, 2020Adam O'Connell

From dramatic glacier-cut fjords to lunar-like lava fields, cascading waterfalls to black sand beaches, Iceland’s surreal and mesmerising landscapes have been shaped by the forces of nature over millions of…

August 11, 2020Annie Hayes

This week Ian Buxton applies his boozy magnifying glass on maturation and asks if it can ever be manipulated or accelerated to produce a quality spirit. I found myself recently…

August 11, 2020Ian Buxton

Our New Arrival of the Week is a gin on a mission to support the UK hospitality industry. The hospitality industry was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. It brought…

August 10, 2020Adam O'Connell

Got your eye on something delectable to drink in the sunshine? We’re here to help! It’s the second week of our super Summer Sale, and we’ve got a whole load…

August 10, 2020Master of Malt

It’s the weekend! How do we know that? Because The Nightcap is here. Those are the rules. We always recommend you have a tasty drink in hand before you start…

August 7, 2020Master of Malt

The Shortie Smoky Porter has finally arrived. We spoke to Brendan McCarron at a virtual tasting to get the lowdown on Ardbeg’s first beer. You love Ardbeg. We love Ardbeg….

August 7, 2020Adam O'Connell

After 523 years, the stills at Lindores Abbey Distillery were fired up, ready for whisky production to begin. We spoke to its owners and founders, Drew and Helen McKenzie Smith,…

August 6, 2020Adam O'Connell

If you can’t make it to a distillery right now, why not let the distillery come to you? A few weeks ago, MoM participated in a virtual gin tasting and…

August 6, 2020Annie Hayes

Every year, almost 120,000 Mint Juleps are served over two days at the Kentucky Derby, requiring more than 450kg of freshly harvested mint and a whopping 27,000kg of ice. Every…

August 5, 2020Annie Hayes

Chivas Regal is one of the biggest and most recognisable blended Scotch whiskies in the world. We talk to custodian master blender Colin Scott as he turns in his tasting…

August 4, 2020Lucy Britner