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Booze for Free PDF
Booze for free PDF – Should everything be free? Everything should be free is an argument that the internet has most certainly perpetuated. Authors Neil Gaiman and Paulo Coelho both agree to a certain...
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Straight Glasses help curb binge drinking, apparently
Dr Angela Atwood et al* recently published a paper that suggests binge drinking can be influenced by drinking from long straight glasses rather than round glasses. In the study participants were given...
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Sloe Gin and the Shameful history of Britain
Imagine the first ever sloe gin ever made and you might picture a chocolate box Tudor Britain. Perhaps a pastoral scene an adorable old lady returning home with a wicker shopping basket full to...
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Beer and babies a match made in heaven?
Of course I’m also not that I’m suggesting your next bit of family time for the over 5's involves pepper pig drinking games or that you call your next brew a child friendly Iggle Piggle pale ale to...
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Unethical Alcohol?
If you have never read this blog before nor come across my work then, for the sake of transpancy, I have to disclose that I have a vested interested in all things booze related before I go on. I’m a …...
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Turin day one
Over Easter week I produced (and starred in) a documentary about Vermouth. It is in the editing stage but here is the start to the four diary accounts I kept during that time. There is a feel to...
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Turin Day three
Turin Day three We two are now three and we have so far managed to just about re-film what we have shot yesterday in the rain, meaning that much of yesterday was a write off. Such is the nature of …...
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Pub Facts – Half truths from the pub
What are Pub facts? Over the course of writing Brewing Britain and throughout my drinking career I have heard many a tall tale, always told most earnestly and always told at least two or three pints...
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The fine line between beer enthusiast and beer extremist
The fine line between beer enthusiast and beer extremist A beer enthusiast is just that, someone who get excited about the topic and the drink. They are people who love every aspect of it. They seek...
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Why I didn’t want to have a sober October and why I won’t be having a sober...
Because I enjoy drinking. Cheers! Andy Hamilton Beer drinker, brewer and writer. Forager, broadcaster and all round good fella.Best selling author of Booze for free You may leave a Andy comment on...
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Before I get nasty emails from French lawyers (Like I did off the Champagne lawyers for elderflower champagne), the only way you can actually make Chateauneuf du pape is to grow grapes in the... The...
View ArticleNot in that glass – How to get the aesthetics right for serving drinks
When we eat out we have come to expect a certain kind of aesthetic but we don’t know how to get the aesthetics right for serving drinks. Tiny details from the plates used to... The Other Andy Hamilton
View ArticleMugwort – the forager’s favourite
Mugwort is officially the foragers favourite wild plant but why? It's anti anxiety, used in brewing and can aid lucid dreaming. Some even thing it can help you predict the future. The Other Andy Hamilton
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Mugwort – part two – how to take and did it alter my mind? In an earlier post I spoke about mugwort and how it helped me with anxiety, how I could interact with my dreams and how they helped me...
View ArticleQuit smoking, but start again when you are drunk, it will change your life!
Quit smoking, but start again when you are drunk. It will change your life The Other Andy Hamilton
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When a tree gets old we might marvel at its beauty, some of us (me) might even travel for miles just to be near this The Other Andy Hamilton
View ArticleWant to be a great writer? The secret is other people (and practice)
Have you heard of the 10,000 hours hypothesis? It was first proposed by music theorist Anders Ericsson in the 1980s; the simplified and popularized interpretation The Other Andy Hamilton
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