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Lumumba Cocktail – drink four in the 12 drinks for Christmas
Lumumba Cocktail One of the alcoholic drinks of choice in the Congo is Lumumba cocktail which is made with Brandy or Cognac and chocolate milk and its drunk hot or cold and it is favoured by some for...
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Quick and easy African Ginger beer part five in the 12 drinks for Christmas
Quick and Easy African Ginger Beer Various ginger drinks are popular not just in the Congo but throughout West and Central African. These non-alcoholic ginger drinks differs from traditional ginger...
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Andy’s Sloe Christmas Cocktail – 12 drinks of Christmas part 6
I’ve been currently reading the brilliant Boozehound by Jason Wilson, it’s a travelogue cocktail book and it is enough to turn the most temperant of people into raging boozehounds. Wilson helps give...
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Homemade Vermouth – 12 drinks for Christmas part 7
Time can certainly do wonders to some wines but for others there really is no hope. Well, that’s what I thought until I started messing around making Vermouth. As long as bottle of wine isn’t too...
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Mulled saison – part eight in Andy’s 12 drinks for Christmas
Here is a twist on the traditional mulled cider or wine, a mulled saison. A saison (also spelt Saision depending on where you come from), is a beer that derives from Wallonia, one of the...
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Khrenovukha – Horseradish vodka – part 9 in the 12 drinks for Christmas
Khrenovukha – Horseradish vodka I was first given this traditional recipe for Khrenovukha by my Russian friend Sasha and it appeared in my first drinks book, Booze for Free. Having played around with...
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Posset old fashioned Egg nog – part 10 and 11 in the 12 drinks for Christmas
Posset Possets have been entrenched in British culture for around 1000 years and were well known right up until the end of the 19th Century. Richard Cook in his 1827 book, Oxford Night Caps ,wrote of...
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Hangover tea – part 12 in 12 drinks for Christmas
Hangovers and hangover cures All three of my books contain homebrew recipes as does a large propotion of this blog. It would seem only fair that I at least acknowledge that I might be at least partly...
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Boozy advent calendar part two, the run up to Christmas day
“I am in the presence of the Ghost of Christmas yet to come? ” said Scrooge. The Spirit answered not, but pointed onward with its hand. ” You are about to show me shadows of the things that have not …...
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