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Bobble has gotten around quite a bit

Posted on May 28, 2020 By admin

The first mention of Bobble the owl in my blog goes all the way back to 2005. I don’t honestly remember when Bobble started living full-time in my bag. Probably while I was working at the EBI and traveling a lot for business.

In the years since, he’s been to Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the US. He’s driven boats, ferries, tractors, planes. He’s travel on planes, trains and automobiles. He’s drunk lots of coffee, beer, wine, gin, port and cocktails. He’s eaten everything from gourmet meals to roadside fast-food. He’s enjoyed vices like cigars, gambling and tattoos. He’s attended scientific conferences, training courses and workshops, West-End plays and movies.

Not bad for a little ball of stuffing :)

Long live the owl!

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12-step recycling problem

Posted on May 16, 2020May 19, 2020 By admin

So, following on from this previous post, my recycling bin officially has a drinking problem.

It’s been exactly one month since it got emptied. In that time, it drank 18 bottles of wine, 1 bottle of gin, 1 bottle of vodka and 1 bottle of KahlĂșa.

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Grown-up date day

Posted on April 23, 2019April 24, 2019 By admin

Katy and I managed to wangle some private time yesterday and had a long-overdue date. We did a spot of shopping, shared a teriyaki chicken donburi bowl and some beef tataki at Wagamama’s (the pink peppercorn in the G&T didn’t do it for me), then we got mildly tipsy at 45 West, with gin cocktails and cheese&onion crisps. What dreams are made of…

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Found my dream job

Posted on April 22, 2019April 24, 2019 By admin

I want to become a professional cocktail tester.

The bartenders at Burleighs gave us one of their WIP cocktails, based on smokey whisky, elderflower and hibiscus. Katy and I both agree it needed something. We finally agreed on sweetness, and the bartender sent us a Mk2. It’s amazeballs. And probably a bit dangerous.

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Shouldn’t work, but damned if it doesnt

Posted on April 22, 2019April 24, 2019 By admin

Gin cocktails and cheese & onion crisps shouldn’t work together. But they do. And we needed this.

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What do you do in your spare time?

Posted on October 18, 2018 By admin

I make presentation about gin.

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News article on Cirka 

Posted on August 1, 2018August 22, 2018 By admin

Les distilleries artisanales se multiplient au QuĂ©bec, ce qui fait renaĂźtre le mĂ©tier de goĂ»teur d’alcool, qui n’existe plus dans les distilleries industrielles qui font confiance aux machines.

Isabelle Rochette, distillatrice de production chez Cirka Ă  MontrĂ©al, doit goĂ»ter la vodka Ă  des Ă©tapes bien prĂ©cises, afin d’éviter d’embouteiller les mauvais alcools produits en dĂ©but et en fin de processus.

«Au dĂ©but, c’est de l’acĂ©tone qui est produite, un alcool toxique qui donne mal Ă  la tĂȘte. Je dois donc goĂ»ter aux deux minutes environ pour dĂ©tecter quand survient le bon alcool, l’éthanol, et commencer Ă  le recueillir», explique Mme Rochette.

Dans les distilleries industrielles, ce processus est confiĂ© Ă  une machine, ce qui laisse passer une certaine quantitĂ© de mauvais alcool. C’est pour s’assurer d’une qualitĂ© de produit irrĂ©prochable que les distilleries artisanales recommencent Ă  confier ces tĂąches aux humains.

«Rendu Ă  la fin de la distillation, c’est encore plus dĂ©licat et je dois parfois goĂ»ter aux 30 secondes, car un litre d’alcool de queue suffit Ă  ruiner une production de vodka», dit Isabelle Rochette.

Puisqu’elle ne goĂ»te qu’avec le bout de son doigt, la distillatrice ne craint ni l’ivresse ni les maladies de foie.

«C’est un mĂ©tier multisensoriel. J’observe aussi la texture et la sensation de chaleur de l’alcool», dit-elle. Une apprĂ©ciation que l’humain fait mieux que la machine, selon elle.

Isabelle Rochette doit aussi goĂ»ter le gin pendant sa distillation afin de s’assurer de retirer les aromates utilisĂ©s pour le parfumer, baies de geniĂšvre et autres Ă©pices, avant qu’ils ne libĂšrent leur amertume.

«C’est en distillant qu’on devient distillateur», dit Mme Rochette, qui a appris les bases de son mĂ©tier de goĂ»teuse en Ă©tudiant la sommellerie et sous la tutelle de Paul Cirka, maĂźtre-distillateur.

Avec l’industrie qui se met en place, les occasions de formation se multiplient pour ceux qui veulent apprendre le mĂ©tier.

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Gin discovery of the day

Posted on May 12, 2018May 13, 2018 By admin

Globus food court has some very interesting gins to further investigate. 

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Should I be worried?

Posted on February 17, 2018February 17, 2018 By admin

Should I be worried that 2 rounds of G&Ts for Katy and I have killed 2/3rds of the bottle of gin? Think my measures might be a bit over-generous?

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Beer street Vs Gin lane

Posted on January 4, 2018 By admin

Beer Street and Gin Lane are two prints issued in 1751 by English artist William Hogarth in support of what would become the Gin Act. Designed to be viewed alongside each other, they depict the evils of the consumption of gin as a contrast to the merits of drinking beer.

On the simplest level, Hogarth portrays the inhabitants of Beer Street as happy and healthy, nourished by the native English ale, and those who live in Gin Lane as destroyed by their addiction to the foreign spirit of gin; but, as with so many of Hogarth’s works, closer inspection uncovers other targets of his satire, and reveals that the poverty of Gin Lane and the prosperity of Beer Street are more intimately connected than they at first appear. Gin Lane shows shocking scenes of infanticide, starvation, madness, decay and suicide, while Beer Street depicts industry, health, bonhomie and thriving commerce.

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