Manchester Food & Drink Blog
I’m really testing my tastebuds at the moment. Between gin reviews, Manchester Cider Club, Manchester Whisky Club, and Oktoberfaust at the weekend, they’re getting a real workout. And now, I’m testing them further with wine. Bon Coeur Fine Wines recently sent out a call for amateur wine tasters to join their panel and ‘Taste Like…
I always love the idea of Oktoberfest. Steins, beer, wurst and hot buttery pretzels. Sweet mustard. More beer. But the reality is often a bit… Meh. The beer is, well, wet? I mean, it’s beer, but there’s no celebration of the great German styles of beer that are out there. The food, is OK, but…
You may remember the name from the first time you sat down at a keyboard (or maybe I’m just showing my age, and that my mum tried to teach me to type using it), but The Quick Brown Fox is the name of a brand new bar in the NQ. Lots of clean, but worn…
OK, so this post is about office space, but believe me when I say that it’s worth sticking with it. I mean modern office space is now, we imagine (or maybe just I do), either something that would make Google proud – open space, beanbags, primary colours, and lots of people in headphones. Or, by…
Sometimes it take effort to pull a recipe idea together. And then sometimes, it just falls into your lap. Take this one, for example. I was heading home from the gym, I knew I had a good few hours to play in the kitchen, I just needed a theme. I had the Bergamot Gin Liqueur…
I first met Ian from Audemus Spirits in Malmaison in Manchester. We bonded over gin (obviously) and I snaffled a bottle of their signature Pink Peppercorn Gin (I think I still have a little in that particular bottle somewhere). It’s still a favourite, as I adore the spicy florals that linger long after you’ve sipped…
The first rule about Manchester Cider Club is….. I actually don’t know. I don’t think we have rules exactly. Drink cider? Which obviously I did. Recently you may have noticed me revisiting cider. It began with a chat with Dick Ashton and Steve from Beer Nouveau on Twitter, and evolved into a couple of tasting…
Often in gin there is a lot of talk of provenance. The ingredients you use have a big impact on the spirit you create. From the base spirit itself, to the botanicals, to the still you use, and the process, all the way up to bottling. In few is that more evident than in the…
Following on from my last post, about We Are Women, I did promise to talk about the campaign from Simply Be. And why so many of us are left frustrated by the whole thing. Last week, Simply Be launched a new campaign. It suggested that there was a need for new icons of beauty, for…