Bar Tab: A Bar with Shapes for a Name, Hoxton, London
How do you compress more than a decade into two rounds of drinks? You skip lightly over the negative and dull, order a third.
Bar Tab: Monty’s, Brick Lane, London
Of course London has dive bars. And why would you choose the sanitised, stylings of a faux dive when you could have the real thing?
Luxuriate: Glenglassaugh Reawakens
There’s a certain magic about a coastal distillery in which casks are found slumbering, and spirit runs from stills.
Luxuriate: X Muse Vodka & Jupiter Artland
It’s a well-worn trope that distillation combines science and art, but at Jupiter Artland, on the outskirts of Edinburgh, X Muse vodka takes the artistic link to a new level
Whisky Magazine: Rye Whisky Cocktails
Rye whisky has fallen in and out of favour over the decades with the classic cocktails it inspired. Now that it is firmly back on our shelves, today’s bartenders are getting creative.
Bar Tab: Boadas, Barcelona
Behind the bar, some of Gatsby’s erstwhile guests stare down from a mural – barflies and gadflies of Boadas and its history.
Luxuriate: Ardbeg Day 2023
Because no Fèis Ìle day is complete without a raucous rendition of some Scottish classics in a (possibly rainy) car park.
Bar Tab: Two Schmucks, Barcelona
Two Schmucks lost all but one of its staff on the same night, is it really the same bar? And is its irreverent vibe untouched by the change?
Bar Tab: Paradiso, Barcelona
Paradiso Barcelona is a bar that could be accused of trying too hard, of taking itself too seriously, then American Boy comes on the playlist.
Whisky Magazine: Whisky & Water
Which water should you add to your whisky? Well, that depends on the whisky…my investigation for Whisky Magazine.