Got 99 Problems But a Bee's Not One

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01/26/23 • 51 min

The Thinking Drinkers Podcast

Hail Henry VIII's death with Tynt Meadow - the only Trappist Beer in Britain.

Read Mark Dredge's great article about the monastery in Good Beer Hunting here:

Watch the documentary "Outside City" - all about the realities of the modern-day Monky business here.
AA Milne & The Bee's Knees Cocktail
Get Hiver Blonde Beer from Waitrose here

Bee's Knees Cocktail

Ingredients

2 teaspoons of honey
50ml Portobello Gin
25ml Lemon Juice
Ice

Method: Loosen up the honey in a jug by stirring it with a little bit of freshly boiled water. When it's smooth, add the mixture to a shaker filled with plenty of ice, the lemon juice and the gin. Shake and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with some lemon zest.

This week's "Les Bargains"

Benriach The Original Ten Speyside Single Malt Scotch, £29 Waitrose (save £9)
Sweet and easy-drinking intro into whisky.

Balblair 15 Year Old, Whisky exchange, £64.95 (£13 off)
A bit more punchy, 46%, full-bodied, matured in ex-bourbon casks and finished in first-fill Spanish oak butts.

Vestal Kaszebe 2011 Vintage Vodka, Whisky Exchange at £21.95 (£8 off)
The potatoes used as the based for this vodka are the Vineta varietal and are all grown in the Kaszebe region of central northern Poland.

Absolute, £16, Asda
Great vodka for mixed drinks and recreating the scene in Wolf of Wall Street

Heineken 0,0, 6xcans for £4.50,

Sainsburys doing Bacardi Carta Blanca for £14, £2 off.
Makes a wicked daiquiri, 700ml bottle, 50ml per daiquiri, how many can you make? You do the math.

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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.
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:

Nottingham - 241 tickets use the word DRINKER
London Leicester Square
Harpenden
Northallerton
Alnwick
Pendle
Oldham
Brighton
Bedford
Reading
Didcot
Stroud
Leicester
Corby

Hail Henry VIII's death with Tynt Meadow - the only Trappist Beer in Britain.

Read Mark Dredge's great article about the monastery in Good Beer Hunting here:

Watch the documentary "Outside City" - all about the realities of the modern-day Monky business here.
AA Milne & The Bee's Knees Cocktail
Get Hiver Blonde Beer from Waitrose here

Bee's Knees Cocktail

Ingredients

2 teaspoons of honey
50ml Portobello Gin
25ml Lemon Juice
Ice

This week's "Les Bargains"

Benriach The Original Ten Speyside Single Malt Scotch, £29 Waitrose (save £9)
Sweet and easy-drinking intro into whisky.

Balblair 15 Year Old, Whisky exchange, £64.95 (£13 off)
A bit more punchy, 46%, full-bodied, matured in ex-bourbon casks and finished in first-fill Spanish oak butts.

Absolute, £16, Asda
Great vodka for mixed drinks and recreating the scene in Wolf of Wall Street

Heineken 0,0, 6xcans for £4.50,

Sainsburys doing Bacardi Carta Blanca for £14, £2 off.
Makes a wicked daiquiri, 700ml bottle, 50ml per daiquiri, how many can you make? You do the math.

________________________________

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:

Nottingham - 241 tickets use the word DRINKER
London Leicester Square
Harpenden
Northallerton
Alnwick
Pendle
Oldham
Brighton
Bedford
Reading
Didcot
Stroud
Leicester
Corby

Previous Episode

Nine Inch Burns & Belgian Crack

This week, following our inaugural appearance on "This Morning", our pod adopts an alternative approach to Burns Night and solves a mystery for those looking to drink something in honour of Hercule Poirot.

Burns Night is coming. Let's face it, if it wasn’t in January, no-one would take any notice. But after 25 moribund days of ‘meh’, celebrating the birthday of an 18th century tax collector with some root vegetables and stomach stuffed with bits of sheep sounds like a brilliant night out.

It’s not. A clichéd caricature of Scottish-ness, it’s tediously quaint, painfully kitsch and all those endless Immortal Memories, those cheesy Addresses to the Lassies; the dreary drone of the bagpipes would have bored the life out of the real Robert Burns.

So we suggest some alcoholic alternatives to breathe life back into Burns Night including:

Harviestoun Ola Dubh - you can get it the three different expressions, here.

Braemble gin Liqueur - Scottish blackberry with English London Dry Gin. £24.89 Master of Malt
The Long Bramble
25ml liqueur
100ml ginger ale or tonic
Pour the bramble over ice, in a highball, top with ginger ale, garnish with a wedge of lime, squeeze it in first
Cross Brew coffee liqueur, £25.74 Master of Malt
Cross Brew Negroni
20ml Cross Brew
30ml Campari
30ml Punt e Mes
Stir over ice and strain into rocks glass with ice
Whisky Deals
Mortlach 15 YO for £87.95 Whisky Exchange – saving £32.05
Aberlour 14-Year-Old Single Malt Whisky, £46 Waitrose - save £10
Cardhu, £26, Sainsburys - was £40
Woven Whisky, Experience N.11, Peachy, £55

POIROT
And then we celebrate a lesser-known milestone - the 103rd anniversary of the first ever Hercule Poirot novel - and honour the "detestable, bombastic, tiresome,egocentric little creep" with a superb Belgian stout.

Get Hercule Stout here
________________________________

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:

Nottingham - 241 tickets use the word DRINKER
London Leicester Square
Harpenden
Northallerton
Alnwick
Pendle
Oldham
Brighton
Bedford
Reading
Didcot
Stroud
Leicester
Corby

Next Episode

Ryan Reynolds & The Vagina Museum

We tell the WWII story behind Whisky Galore before linking a classic gin cocktail to a tale of someone knocking a vase over.

You should listen.

The Ola Dubh range is available from The Whiskey Exchange

Sainsbury has its Villa Maria on at £8.75, down from a tenner,

Jameson is £19 down from £22.50,

Gin deal of the week, Asda and Waitrose are going at it in their bid to bring you the best price on Tanqueray Ten
Waitrose, £27,

Aviation Cocktail

60ml gin

15ml Maraschino Liqueur
10ml Créme De Violette

25ml Lemon Juice

Lemon zest, to garnish

Shake gin, lemon juice, maraschino liqueur and crème de violette over ice, Taste, then add a splash of chilled water to dilute, if you like. Strain into four chilled cocktail glasses and garnish with blueberries and lemon zest.

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: