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…
Get on the Turps in Australia
Referring to Australians, Marcus Clark famously said, “They are not a nation of snobs like the English or of extravagant boasters like the Americans or of reckless profligates like the French, they are simply a nation of drunkards.” ‘Drunkards’ or…
Georg Riedel: Shape does matter
Published in Ambrosia magazine, March 2011 With Indian drinkers getting more wine-literate over the last five years, wine etiquette is becoming increasingly important. And I’m not talking about just that pretentious bunch that has the four S’s (See, Swirl, Smell,…
Gigglewater 411
Okay, so I’m no blogger. I really don’t have anything extraordinary or unique to say. And from my first two lines it’s probably obvious that I haven’t received the ‘Blogging for Dummies’ handbook. But in my work at Ambrosia – a wine…