Tag: Book
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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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Yorkshire’s Gins
WHAT THE GIN CLAN DID NEXT A year ago, a comprehensive guide to Scottish gins made its appearance on the bookshelves. Now Fiona Laing, the author of The Gin Clan, has surveyed all the gins of Yorkshire. Using the same approach as The Gin Clan, Fiona has profiled all the members of Yorkshire’s gin distilling clan who make their own…
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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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A whisky lass?
A whisky lass? Cards on the table: my malt heritage is rather unconventional – I have been a public relations consultant for an Indian malt whisky distiller. I had just left a PR job with a multi-national electronics company when an industry contact suggested I met a friend of hers who was looking for some…
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Big Big Masterclasses
Festival date The Gin Clan author Fiona Laing will be giving masterclasses on Scottish gin at the Big Big Gin Festival at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange on 26 and 27 April. The festival brings together all things gin over three sessions and Fiona will join a line-up of experts for breakout sessions for festival-goers who…
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