Category: Gin Clan
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Burns Night 2025
The birthday of Robert Burns on 25 January is an opportunity to celebrate Scotland’s southern-most whisky distillery. We probably all associate Robert Burns with his love of whisky, but we sometimes forget that he was also an excise officer – fighting the smugglers and illicit stills. Poetry wasn’t big business in those days and when…
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St Andrew’s Day 2024
St Andrew’s Day and time to celebrate a Scottish gin. I was in Galloway last week and took the opportunity to seek out the Dark Arts distillery in Kirkcudbright. It’s a wee gem. It’s part of the Johnston – a former primary school – which also houses the Dark Space planetarium. You can’t miss the…
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Gin stories
About the author I’m the author of three gin books – GINS of the NORTH WEST, YORKSHIRE’S GINS + The GIN CLAN. The GINS of the NORTH WEST features the gins and their makers and distilleries in Lancashire, Cheshire, Cumbria, Manchester, Liverpool. I’m also a journalist writing about a wide variety of things from tech,…
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Dilemma sorted
Valentine’s Day Gifts Make it a Valentine’s Day to savour. Choose a book for the gin lover in your life. YORKSHIRE’S GINS will guide you through the gins of God’s Own County.The GIN CLAN will introduce you to the gins of Scotland.GINS of the NORTH WEST will guide you through the gins of Cumbria, Lancashire,…
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A Ding for Gin 2021
I enjoyed posting for #GinADayMay again this year but only managed 11 posts this time. Still, I thought it would be good to collect the posts to look back at in the future. These are from Instagram as they were more detailed and the #hashtags have mainly been removed. (Some were on Twitter as well).…
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Gold-plated backstage pass
As an author and journalist, I am often allowed to see behind the scenes – the things people don’t often get to see – and usually I write about them. Now, I’ve put my inside knowledge to good use by making a podcast and sharing my backstage pass with listeners. For my very first podcast,…
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Festival time
Author on the stage at Edinburgh Foodies 2 August
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Hot off the press
The GIN CLAN is building up quite a lot of press coverage. Here are a few of the recent newspaper cuttings (in their digital format) New book a tonic for gin loves, Aberdeen Evening Express, April 2019 Read it here Edinburgh’s gin boom: How did the Capital become the home of quality gin? Edinburgh Evening…
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Summer Garden Party
What makes gin Scottish? Find out at the Summer Gin Party on the terrace at One Square at the Sheraton, Edinburgh on Friday 12 July. Bite magazine and One Square, the bar at the Sheraton hotel, are putting on a gem of a gin event. There will be serves of One Square Gin, Garden Shed…
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