mike gerrard

Chilled catches up with Vestal Vodka’s William Borrell, whose vintage vodkas have created a stir in Europe and are now set to do the same in the USA.

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200 bourbons, 250 tequilas, 300 gins or 900 whiskies?

Whatever your spirit of choice, there’s a bar in London that can satisfy even the most discerning of drinkers. Whether hidden …
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As recently as five years ago there were only 14 commercial breweries in London.

Today there are 78, and by the time you read this there will probably be more …
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The World’s Best Literary Bars

Writers and bars go together like gin and tonic, and there must be at least 5,000 bars around the world boasting that ‘Hemingway Drank Here.’ …
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Talk to distillers and bartenders in and around Denver, and the neighboring city of Boulder (which has five distilleries and 20 breweries for 100,000 people), and the same name keeps …
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What is the oldest distillery in the United States? Well, there are several contenders depending how you measure it.

Buffalo Trace claims to be the oldest continuously-operating distillery in the …
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For a city with a reputation for fitness freaks, Boulder, Colorado likes its drink.

No doubt the fact that there are 30,000 students out of a population of 100,000 helps. …
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“Our climate gives a wheat that is very good for raw spirit production,” says Erik Baeksted. “There’s a reason vodka comes from this part of the world!”

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As summer temperatures start to soar, with heatwaves across Europe, and the UK recently recording its hottest July day in history, it’s good to think about a cooling cocktail in …
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Natural, intense, and exotic flavors define the newest infused vodkas.

“The flavored vodka market is oversaturated with bad ideas that sound like they’re designed mostly with ten-year-olds in mind,” says …
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From public toilets to an old police station, from windmills to biscuit factories, all around the world are bars in some pretty unusual locations.

For some reason several of them …
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It’s not just Coors anymore. Golden, Colorado is Booming with Beer

Golden was Colorado’s first capital, founded in 1859 during the Gold Rush. These days, though, Golden’s boom is in …
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