Meme Loves Gin

easy lock down cocktails

cocktails based around my favourite GOT qoutes

In a time when new gin seems to be popping up every single day, something has to make the gin different. You need to be able to see the passion and excitement by the founders of the brand. The branding has to be thought out and well executed. It needs to leave a lasting impression, especially when your at a spirits show trying a silly amount of gin. While attending The Boutique Bar show 2018, I stumbled across a gin that somehow caught my eye. Could have been a few things tha

The original indigo gin Colour changing gin... It's becoming a thing now. Going from one colour to the next. Shades of blue to pink, orange to pink, dark pink to pink, you get the gist right? I'm not going to name and shame here but the taste and quality of these gins to vary. Most are style over substance for sure. I have a bunch in my gin collection but its a type of gin I pull out for my friends if they are new to gin as its fun. These gins change colour when tonic water o

I know I’ve spoken about tea in previous posts but I’m back here talking about it again. When I were younger my family and I would go to Punjab, India to visit my grandparents and family every few years. I have lots of fond memories, running through the fields my family owned, being terrified of the water buffaloes on our farm and my mother telling me to drink tea. My mother always told us to drink it, “someone has gone to the effort to make it for you so drink up.” Indian te

English summers.... Thinking about the English summer a few things pop to my mind... Wimbledon, strawberries, 6 different types of ice-cream in the freezer at any given time and endless visits to garden center. My mother takes great pride with her fruit and veg patch in the garden, she wakes up every morning and talks to her flowers/crops and gives them more attention then she pays to me. My mother takes great pride with her fruit and veg patch in the garden she spends most o

There is something very romantic about this just gin. If I was watching the sun set with the love of my life, this would be the gin I would want to be drinking during it. What makes this gin romantic I hear you cry... well, after the initial notes of juniper you can taste the rose buds and raspberry leaf. Lets not forget the bottle, rose gold foil lettering makes this bottle stand out from the crowd. The guys at Kalevala are keeping the recipe of their gins a secret. However

What happened when three friends got together and decided to create a gin could be classed as the best of the best? That could be drank straight or with a tonic? They were on a mission to do just that. They created Porter Gin, a juniper heavy gin with light citrus notes that is just to die for. Porters gin is all the way from Aberdeen, Scotland... The land of awesome gins it seems. The trio (Josh, Ben and Alex) who came up with this beautiful gin using traditional Copper pot-