Always fancied becoming a restaurateur? Running that great little bistro, the best family restaurant in the neighbourhood or that posh Michelin starred one catering for the well off and celebrities only? Mastering the art of cooking, being in charge of your kitchen and serving the food you love cooking and your customers love eating? Owning [...]
Or just ad fab? The drinks industry has started their full-scale assault on women by introducing new drinks specifically designed for women. From the breweries to distillers, these new drinks are aimed solely at women some going as far as having only female staff running the promotion and marketing. The companies also use the female [...]
You need a driving license to drive a car, you need a license to own a gun and most of us generally accept that without a second thought. Wouldn’t it be just logical that you should also need a license to drink? After all, according to the statistics, alcohol causes more deaths than cars and [...]
Well, I agree with you, I’m not pretty but new beers specifically designed for women apparently are. The next question, of course, is what’s the difference between plain old-fashioned beer or lager and a pretty beer or lager? Well, according to Molson Coors who recently launched their Animee brand, the difference is that they are [...]
Even if you haven’t read, or heard of, the Bible, you’ve probably heard the story of Jesus turning water to wine (John 2:1-11 for those of you want to refresh their memory)? Over the millennia human kind has spent awfully lot of time, resources and energy trying to figure out how to turn water into [...]
Days of cheap alcohol, wine and beer may be soon over if David Cameron’s decision to impose minimum price for alcohol become reality. His intention is to follow Scotland’s proposal which would ban the sale of alcohol below 45p per unit, or to create new tax rules based on number of alcohol units contained in [...]
BrewDog, the largest indie brewery in Scotland are not exactly, what you would call “tradional” brewers. Founded by two young men bored of the bland industrially brewed lagers and stuffy ales, the boys decided to fix the situation by starting to brew their own beers. From their beginning in 2007 they have grown exponentially and [...]
The miracle material graphene has been in the news again. Graphene is a form of carbon existing as a sheet just one atom thick. The atoms themselves are then arranged into a two-dimensional honeycomb structure. Despite of its thinness, it is about 100 times stronger than steel and conducts electricity better than copper. Mixing just [...]
According to Square Meal’s Complaints Survey 2012, bad service is the biggest cause of complaint for restaurant diners in London. 45% of all respondents rated bad service as their biggest cause of complaint. Distant second was the ambience and decor at 19.5%. About 8,000 restaurant visitors took part to the survey so it should give [...]
The continuous still is altogether different from pot still. Aeneas Coffey patented the continuous still in the 1830s as an improved from a continuous distillation which was evolved in Scotland, originally developed by Robert Stein who was a major figure in the early Lowland Scotch whisky industry.