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Mummy Barrow’s Gin Parlour shows off gins we have tried and loved, and features gin based recipes.
Well there have been another seven gins sampled since the last post and it has been a real voyage of discovery and actually also of geography. This week we have been all over the place, from Menorca to Yorkshire to Spain to Scotland and I have loved finding out a little bit more about each distillery or gin. So for posterity, here they all are in case you
Here we are with Ginmas Week 1 When my parents owned a vineyard for ten years it never ceased to amaze me how much they knew about wine. As much as they knew though there was always more to learn and I really envied that knowledge of a subject and the ability to keep learning. As I approach my fifties I keep thinking my brain is going to
Every year, round about now I get tagged in pictures of a gin advent calendar that retails at around £100. A “wee dram” of gin in a tiny bottle between 24 little windows that looks cute but over the years has crept up in price and has never really struck me as being great value for money. Yes it looks amazing and would be a stunning gift for any gin
Yesterday was International Gin and Tonic Day so I thought I would mark this occasion in the week with sharing some fun facts about gin, so here are the 7 things I have learned since I started drinking gin. Little did I know back then that one day I would have a whole category on my blog dedicated to gin. Since starting to drink a few years ago I have
For the inaugral #MBGC (Mummy Barrow Gin Club) I am cho’sing a gin that brings back childhood memories. You see drinking for me isn’t about forgetting or getting hammered. I don’t like being drunk, mainly because I can’t spend the following day feeling ill since children don’t understand that mummy is ill. So drinking for me is always about remembering, reminiscing, chatting. It is a social thing. I don’t enjoy drinking
Welcome to the Mummy Barrow Gin Parlour! It seems strange that it was only a couple of years ago that I had never tried a G&T. That when I then did I was a bit “hmm no thanks, I don’t like it”. Yet now here I am launching my gin club. What I then came to realise, only recently, was that it isn’t gin I didn’t like, but tonic. And
. When you wake up to the news that it is World Gin Day you can’t let this day go unmarked. Though even I drew the line at cracking open the G&T at 8am. Truth be told though I don’t like G&T because I don’t like tonic. Gin and lemonade is more my thing, or of course the legendary Mummy B Martini in a pint glass.
. So, T has this theory that staying in is the new going out, what with money being a bit tighter than it has been, with all the weirdos out there and the unfortunate lose-your-licence-if-you-drink-and-drive thing. By the way,talking of weirdos, have you seen the young people of today? They must have a highly developed sense of smell, as that’s the only thing that they can be using to navigate.
A little trip to the Warner Edwards Gin distillery is on the blog today Today is #WorldGinDay. A day to celebrate gin and so I am sharing some pics from a recent trip we did to Northamptonshire to see the home of Warner Edwards gin Last year I dragged Mr B to the Good Food Show in Birmingham. We had a great day. Mostly because in the Press Room at