As a child, my younger sister used to love to drink shrub and coke when we were on holidays. I’m convinced she thought that the cordial she brought from the Cornish cornershop, was alcoholic and therefore illicit – although that’s as far from the truth as could be. It only…
Everyone knows I love craft beer. But much in the same way absence makes the heart grow fonder, a night off the hops makes the palate stronger. I don’t mean switching to wine or G&T, but choosing alcohol free beverages instead. However, when you develop craft tastes for one thing…
I am writing this with a gale howling outside. It’s January, its almost dark even though it’s three thirty. I’ve had far too much caffeine already today. What should I have to drink? We talk quite a lot on this blog about alcoholic drinks. Beer seemed to pop up quite…
Ginger is one of those flavours I love, whether it’s in a good dark sticky gingerbread, or an essential ingredient in an Indian dish. It’s spicy, hot and totally delicious. Ginger root is, apparently, a good cure for many ills, including travel sickness and indigenstion. An excuse to imbibe more?…
Have you noticed how much easier it is to find interesting soft drinks these days? Gone are the times when all you could get was orange and lemonade or very small bottles of bland pineapple juice. If you go to the right places of course. A Scottish soft drink
