2018 Gin safari, wild cocktail events & a bonus recipe
With Christmas just around the corner, I thought I’d better finally sort out a few events for the first half of next year. These four events are all along the similar theme of wild booze...
Category: wild booze
Gin Safari with Andy Hamilton
Andy Hamilton’s Gin Safari’s, are a little different than most gin events as you actually get to make you own gin from plants that you pick. What’s more, you leave with the knowledge of...
Wild food and drink podcast July 2017 – Islay Special
This is the third wild food and drink podcast and so I thought I’d go all out and make an Islay special. Over the last three or four years, the folk at the Botanist...
How to make elderflower syrup and a chocolate elderflower cocktail
Elderflower syrup has replaced elderflower cordial in our house as it is so much easier to make. I made a video some time ago and wrote a piece for the Telegraph about making syrups and this really...
How to make rhubarb tequila & rhubarb tequila margaritas
Rhubarb tequila was one of those infusions that I just knew would work before I even tried it. The harsh burn of tequila softened by the sour tang of the rhubarb. When I started...
Drink Weeds
As I look out of my office window into my back garden/yard I don’t see an ugly patch of weeds like most others will, I see a cocktail cabinet full to the brim of...
How to make nasturtium vodka
Nasturtium Vodka is an antidote to that nasturtium jungle that will exist even years after planting a few seeds, “just for a splash of colour”. Depending on your point of view this can be a...
Andy Hamiton’s delicious alcoholic elderflower champagne
The fizz that characterises elderflower champagne is a result of bottling before the fermentation process has finished, normally this process is started by capturing wild yeast. This can cause problems: namely, lack of alcohol,...
