Scotland’s gins and their makers
News about gin, Scotland and The Gin Clan books
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Cumbria Day 2024
Gins of the Lakes and Fells Celebrate Cumbria Day on 23 January with a gin from a Cumbrian ginmaker. Celebrate everything that’s great about Cumbria with one of its gins. GINS of the NORTH WEST will guide you to the makers and distilleries from Carlisle in the north, through the Lakes, to Ulverston in the…
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Island adventure
Manx Lit Fest I’ll be visiting the Isle of Man this month. I’m hosting an evening of stories, music, art and gin at the Fynoderee Distillery in Ramsey on 27 September. There’s a G&T on arrival before my talk about modern gin-making and what inspires the people crafting the spirit. I will be joined by…
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New arrival
Gins of the North West From the Solway Firth in the north to the River Dee in the south and from the Pennines in the east to the coast, the North West of England’s wealth of gins and distilleries are the focus. Discover the gins of Cumbria, Lancashire, Cheshire, Manchester and Liverpool. order the book…
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Next project
ginadaymay2022 May was the now traditional feast of gin news and views in Gin A Day May, so I took the opportunirty to break off form my current project to share some news: Day 3 #book Exclusive for #ginadaymay2022 followers. I’m now working on my third book – and no surprise it’s about gin (again).…
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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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Ae fond kiss?
TONIC REVIEW: Find out if Walter Gregor has “ae fond kiss” on Burns Night To celebrate Burns Night, a little bit of experimentation with a liquid accompaniment for the haggis. I’ve gathered three Scottish potato-based spirits and the recently launched neep-flavoured tonic water from Walter Gregor, the Aberdeenshire mixer maker. The vodka and gin I’ve…
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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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Behind the scenes
AUTHOR AT WORK: LIGHTHOUSES In January, I set goals for the year and developing a portfolio of travel writing was one of them. By the end of the month I’d made a good start with a visit to Angus. Gradually through the pandemic the fruits of January’s trip were published – mostly in print so…
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Gin families
It sometimes seems that the current love affair with gin is a UK wide phenomenon but there are different forces at work in different places. Yorkshire Day (1 August) seemed like a good time to compare the gin scenes from the areas of my two books. My thoughts are in the article posted on the…
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