Bananas & Pigs

Explicit content warning

02/23/23 • 50 min

After a week off, the hardest working beefcakes in the drinks business slide back into the Pod saddle, digging their heels into some hard-nosed aural journalism and whipping up some searing investigative insight - namely the return of bananas to the UK in 1945 and. of course, National Pig Day (only America).

Like beer? Like bananas? Well you'll flipping love Mongozo Banana Beer - available here or via Amazon here

And how about A Pigs In Blanket Old Fashioned?

Pigs in Blanket Old Fashioned

Ingredients

12 pigs in blanket

70cl of Pork fat-washed whisky

5ml Maple syrup

2 dashes of Angostura Bitters

To make the fat-wash whisky

· Grill the pigs in blanket over a baking tray and collect 30ml of the fat.

· Strain it into a container filled with 70cl of blended Scotch whisky. Leave it to steep in the whisky for 6-8 hours or overnight at room temperature before placing the bottle in the freezer.

· Once the fat has congealed in the bottle, strain the bourbon into a new bottle.

Method:

· Take 40 ml pigs-in-blanket fat-infused whisky and stir in a mixing glass with the maple syrup and ice.

· Add bitters and stir.

· Strain into a child ‘Old Fashioned’ glass filled with ice. Garnish with an orange slice.. Or a pig-in-blanket

While you're waiting for the pig fat to steep in the whisky, here's a video about pigs that play video games.

Drinks Deals Of The Week
Mirabeau La Folie Sparkling Rose - down £3 to £11 at SainsburysJohnnie Walker Black Label - Sainsbury, £22, save £10,

Martini Rosso, only £2.50 off, but down to £8 at Waitrose,
Jameson Orange, £15, save £9.50, great in an alternative to the Irish Espresso Martini Waitrose

For gin fans, Hayman’s London Dry Gin, fiver off, £21 Waitrose

Keep your eye out for the new Luxardo Espresso Liqueur

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Like beer? Like bananas? Well you'll flipping love Mongozo Banana Beer - available here or via Amazon here

And how about A Pigs In Blanket Old Fashioned?

Pigs in Blanket Old Fashioned

Ingredients

12 pigs in blanket

70cl of Pork fat-washed whisky

5ml Maple syrup

2 dashes of Angostura Bitters

To make the fat-wash whisky

· Grill the pigs in blanket over a baking tray and collect 30ml of the fat.

· Strain it into a container filled with 70cl of blended Scotch whisky. Leave it to steep in the whisky for 6-8 hours or overnight at room temperature before placing the bottle in the freezer.

· Once the fat has congealed in the bottle, strain the bourbon into a new bottle.

Method:

· Take 40 ml pigs-in-blanket fat-infused whisky and stir in a mixing glass with the maple syrup and ice.

· Add bitters and stir.

· Strain into a child ‘Old Fashioned’ glass filled with ice. Garnish with an orange slice.. Or a pig-in-blanket

While you're waiting for the pig fat to steep in the whisky, here's a video about pigs that play video games.

Drinks Deals Of The Week
Mirabeau La Folie Sparkling Rose - down £3 to £11 at SainsburysJohnnie Walker Black Label - Sainsbury, £22, save £10,

Martini Rosso, only £2.50 off, but down to £8 at Waitrose,
Jameson Orange, £15, save £9.50, great in an alternative to the Irish Espresso Martini Waitrose

For gin fans, Hayman’s London Dry Gin, fiver off, £21 Waitrose

Keep your eye out for the new Luxardo Espresso Liqueur

_____________________________

Buy yourself or someone else annual membership (and a signed copy of our award-winning Thinking Drinkers Almanac Book) for just £120 here.

3 x 60ml pouches containing 3 x world class spirits delivered direct through your door every month.
Exclusive access to the TD online magazine
A signed copy of Thinking Drinkers Almanac (named Drinks Book of the Year 2021 by The Sunday Times)
Monthly Online Tastings with The Thinking Drinkers & Guests

Check out dates and tickets for our "Thinking Drinkers Pub Quiz" show, featuring lots of laughs and FIVE free drinks for evewry audience member, here:

Harpenden
Northallerton
Alnwick
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Brighton
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Reading
Didcot
Stroud
Leicester
Corby

Previous Episode

It's Not Gonna Shuck Itself Is It?

If drink-soaked discussion of aphrodisiacal accompaniments to oysters, 'titanic plums', guinea pigs with dodgy fivers, hangover cures and some seriously decent discounted drinks are your thing then listen to this Valentine's Special featuring a boffin.

VALENTINE DRINKS
The Properly Dangerous LiasonIngredients
45ml Brockmans Gin
75ml Taittinger Champagne or Sparkling Wine
15ml Fresh Lemon Juice
10ml Creme de Cassis
5ml Sugar Syrup
Method

– Combine all ingredients apart from the sparkling wine and creme de cassis in a shaker over ice
– Shake to combine, double strain into a champagne flute and
– Top with Champagne, then drizzle over the creme de cassis.
– Garnish with a lemon twist.

Chilean Red Wine: Errazuriz Max Reserva Cabernet Sauvignon – £12.99, Waitrose
Chargrilled asparagus with Westmalle Tripel – £4.20 from Beer Merchants
Oysters with Titanic Plum Porter – £1.80, Sainsbury’s

Discerning Drinks Deals
Aperol, Morrisons, reduced from £20 to £15.99,

Morrisons, Courvoisier VSOP, £29.99, down from £37,

Gin deal of the week, Sainsbury, 1l of Tanqueray, £20,

Asda Beer Deals

You can get two packs for a tenner on certain beers.

So 4xJaipur and 6x Pilsner Urquell for £10.

That’s a tenner for 10 quality beers, so that makes them £1 each. Some maths for you.

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Buy yourself or someone else annual membership (and a signed copy of our award-winning Thinking Drinkers Almanac Book) for just £120 here.

3 x 60ml pouches containing 3 x world class spirits delivered direct through your door every month.
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Monthly Online Tastings with The Thinking Drinkers & Guests

Check out dates and tickets for our "Thinking Drinkers Pub Quiz" show, featuring lots of laughs and FIVE free drinks for evewry audience member, here:

London Leicester Square (THURSDAY 9th Feb)
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Pendle
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Bedford
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Didcot
Stroud
Leicester
Corby

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This week, we hark back to the halcyon days when strangers blew smoke up the bottoms of wet people and, in the whining words of Liam Gallagher, things get supersonic with a gin and tonic as we celebrate the birth of Concorde.

Oaxaca Old Fashioned (created by Phil Ward in New York)

40ml Fortaleza Reposado Tequila

12.5ml Lost Explorer Mezcal

1 barspoon agave nectar

2 dashes Angostura bitters

Garnish: orange twist

Method: Set the orange peel to one side before bringing all the ingredients in a glass (Old Fashioned) containing a large ice cube. Stir until chilled. Flame an orange twist over the surface of the drink.

Discerning Drinks Deals Of The Week

Majestic
Chanoine Frères 'Réserve Privée' Brut Champagne - £20 OFF
Beronia Rioja Gran Reserva 2013/15 - 8 quid off.
Definition English Sparkling Brut, Hampshire - 11 quid off.
Lanson Le Blanc de Blancs Brut Champagne - £20 off

Whiskey Exchange
Fortaleza Blanco Tequila with a case of London Essence Pomelo and Pink Pepper Tonic - £62.75
ASDA GIN OF THE WEEK

Asda, Plymouth Gin, £20, save a fiver,

Waitrose Wine: Terre di Vita Organic Pinot Grigio Terre Siciliane £6.49 - down from £8.99,

Mimo Moutinho Dão Red Wine, Aldi, £5.79

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Other Stuff

Buy yourself or someone else annual membership (and a signed copy of our award-winning Thinking Drinkers Almanac Book) for just £120 here.

3 x 60ml pouches containing 3 x world class spirits delivered direct through your door every month.
Exclusive access to the TD online magazine
A signed copy of Thinking Drinkers Almanac (named Drinks Book of the Year 2021 by The Sunday Times)
Monthly Online Tastings with The Thinking Drinkers & Guests

Check out dates and tickets for our "Thinking Drinkers Pub Quiz" show, featuring lots of laughs and FIVE free drinks for every audience member, here: