GOOGLE BEER +1
As though Google wasn’t doing enough already, its plan to take over the whole world has just taken one crucial step further. Now they brew beer. Yes, seriously, beer! But Google lover or not, you can’t honestly grudge them this, can you?…
Doolally’s Oktoberfest 2011
I’ve been wanting to go to the Doolally Brew Pub in Pune for a while now, but haven’t gotten around to it yet. I hear that they have some awesome brews and now I have even more incentive – Doolally’s…
‘Gold in Every Drop’ …Literally
Another recipe that involves edible gold flakes. This time it is Smirnoff which has launched its own version of Gold with edible gold leaf flakes in the vodka held in a gold etched bottle. Currently exclusive to just travel retail,…
Molecular Mixology
I recently attended the Cointreau Cocktail workshop through Ambrosia where Richard Lambert, Global Brand Ambassador for Cointreau gave bartenders and mixologists an education in Molecular mixology. What is molecular mixology? It is molecular gastronomy, but with alcohol. So what is…
KF Beered Up
If I wasn’t sold on the positives of being Twitter-literate earlier, I definitely am now. The #KFBeerUp was legendary. And for any beer enthusiast, nothing matches the excitement of a tour through the brewery of their favourite beer. On 17…
Doh! A deer!
When I saw pictures of BrewDog’s The End of History beer, I was pretty disturbed, but looks like that was just the beginning. On July 22, 2010 BrewDog released their new craft beer – The End of History packaged in…
World’s most influential wine book – a Manga comic?
I’m a great fan of all things that take the implied ‘snootiness’ out of wine drinking. So when I heard that a manga series is now the most influential wine text in the world, I just had to read it….
The Mumbai Oktoberfest – Round 2
Last October Mumbaikars welcomed to their city the world’s biggest beer festival and they made sure that it lived up to its Munich counterpart. Matching the Germans sip for sip and litre for litre, their response was a surprise to…
A Homerkin, anyone?
Did you know that 90% of what people say is conveyed through just 7000 words? I didn’t, and it seems like such a waste that so many words in the English language lie unused, fading away as the years go…
Barley and Me
A year ago the only thing I liked to drink were mojitos, and maybe the occasional caipiroska doused with sugar syrup and mint leaves. And as much as I would’ve like to be part of the beer-drinking gang instead of…
The Hangover
Since I’ve been promoting alcohol, all types of it, I think it’s only fair that I help with the morning after as well. And look what I found… Hangover remedies from around the world. Personally the Dutch seem to have…
Green vs Brown – Which would you choose?
So yesterday as I was handed a pint of Kingfisher beer, I chose to share with a friend the fact that green bottles have been proved to be worse for storing beer than brown. He laughed at what to him…
Brewing a Storm!
Let me tell you a story. A story of two boys who wanted to change the oppressive world they were living in. So they dreamed. A dream to break the shackles of bureaucracy and guide people onto the correct path….
Hyderabad’s Deadly SYN
Gluttony and greed – two of the seven deadly sins. Bad, very bad. The Bible says so. But, at the end of a meal at the aptly named Syn, you can’t help but admit that you’re a ‘synner’ yourself, and…