When Oxford biochemist Dr John Walters distilled brandy from home-picked grapes on a whim, did he realise that it would lead to annually producing nearly 2-million bottles of various spirits? The heart and passion that drives the craft brewing industry is alive and well in the UK’s craft distillers. The question is: should you be…
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Adding water to your distilled spirit will change its flavour. The question is: By how much? Researchers Chelsea Ickes and Keith Cadwallader report. For whisky and other spirit drinkers, the big debate is always centred on should you drink whisky neat – no water or ice – or diluted with water? The argument is not…
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Like how craft beer spun out from big beer so, too, has craft gin spun out from the big players. Future distillers – with a good portion coming up through the craft beer ranks – realised that with the knowledge they already had, to make craft gin was within their reach. Now, distillers are looking…
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The total number of UK distilleries has risen in the last five years from 184 to 441, with 80 opening last year alone, with a flow of craft gin, vodka, whisky and rum going from the stills to happy consumers. With this year looking like the world’s financial market will be having a rough, rough…
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