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Mummy Barrow’s Gin Parlour shows off gins we have tried and loved, and features gin based recipes.
This is the gin kit for you if you have ever wanted to make your own gin but haven’t known where to start. Making gin is easy, you just put juniper berries in vodka, right? Wrong. That’s like saying you can make decent wine by adding a grain of yeast to a bottle of grape juice. You can’t. Don’t ask how I know, but suffice to say you don’t live
What to know how to make an A to Z of Gin! No, you probably don’t in all honesty, but on the off chance you DO want to know how to make an A to Z of gin, here is how to do it. Four years ago I visited my first gin distillery, more out of curiosity than anything else. I drank the occasional gin but I still wasn’t sure
Ginmas 2017 and it is already week 4 So I promised to do a gin a day for the whole of December but only got as far as Christmas Eve. Which makes it more of a Ginvent than Ginmas and, therefore, week four only features two gins. To be brutally honest I just ran out of steam and on Christmas Day I was in a turkey induced coma so
Ginmas 2017 and we are already at week 3 ! December is whizzing by and it will soon be the end of the year. How does that happen? Life has been so frantic this year I have really appreicated my evening sit down with a glass of gin and reading a little more about each distillery, so here is a roundup of the seven from this week. 6 O Clock
What is your favourite gin? Week 2 of my Ginmas posts and these are the gins I am enjoying this week Another week, another seven gins! This is a little snapshot of the seven gins I shared on week two of Ginmas. How can it now be half way through the month?! For every item I cross off the “to do” list it seems two more get added. But at
I decided to try a gin a day in December and called it Ginmas. Come back every week this month to see what I am drinking and sharing. How can a whole week of December have passed already?! I have loved doing Ginmas again this year and have tried to include gins that I didn’t feature last year so I learn a bit more about the huge, and ever
Ever thought about how to make your own gin filled Christmas crackers? It is surprisingly simple When I talked about doing crackers with gin in, Mr B said “ooh I like that idea, especially the spicier ones as that would work really well with cheese”. No, you muppet, not actual crackers, I am talking about Christmas crackers. Gone are the days when we have a plastic thimble that wouldn’t
The gin of the month for December is really rather special. It is Blogger Gin. Made by bloggers, for bloggers. And when I say made by bloggers, I actually mean me! Not on my own of course, with the help with a great bunch of people who I have affectionately named the A Team (which makes me Mrs T by the way) and whom I want to thank. First
You can’t move this year for gin related gift ideas. So here is another gin gift guide to add to the pile. From gin and tonic tea bags (yes they do exist, Fortnums do them), to gin t-shirts to actual gin in a multitude of flavours and containers the gift market now is awash with gin inspired ideas. I have seen so many different ideas for the gin
A while ago Heston Blumenthal published how to make the perfect G&T. I beg to differ, that is NOT how to make the perfect G&T Sorry Heston, but your perfect G&T recipe is wrong. You and I nearly came to blows over your perfect cup of tea making a few years ago and now it looks like we are going to fall out again, this time over gin. Which is
I made a gin! And I dont mean in my shed, or in the bath, or at the kitchen sink, I mean an actual real, legal, professionally done, gin. Blogger Gin has been a year in the planning. I cannot begin to tell you how complicated it has been but this week it finally happened! Bloggers spend an awful lot of time talking about gin, so I thought it
Yes, my gin of the month for October is called TOAD. Or rather my gin of the month is made by The Oxford Artisan Distillery, TOAD for short. We first heard about this distillery after Tom, who runs it, was featured on BBC’ Countryfile because not only has he just started up this distillery in Oxford, but he is doing things slightly differently. You see all gin starts from a