no tasting notes - with Tim and Eleri

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Agave’s children, Pulque, Mezcal, and Tequila, get the No Tasting Notes treatment. Plus some half-remembered tomfoolery in Manchester - for which we apologise.

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Tim and Eleri take a trip to the 17th Century coffee-houses for a bit of education.

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Water. Yes, really. In the post-holiday hangover Eleri and Tim are rehydrating without mention of the P-word.

(formerly Thinking Drinking) The second of the seasonal double sees more mulling in the form of cider and waking the spirits of the orchard with wassailing.

(formerly Thinking Drinking) In the first of a seasonal double-bill, Eleri and Tim warm their cockles with mulled wine and disagree over Santa’s preferred tipple.

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Why do the people of Swansea celebrate a French wine on the third Thursday of November? Eleri and Tim investigate.

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Or are they sports? Tim and Eleri deal with darts, skirmish with skittles, and battle with bearbaiting.

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Bloody Hell Mary, it’s a Halloween special! Episode 13 gets spooky with the Zombie, pumpkin spice, and drinking in horror films.

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Ahoy matey, join Eleri and Tim for some high-seas adventure with boozy sailor slang, grog, madeira and a shanty.

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Concerned about a potential Marmite shortage, Tim and Eleri explore the world of yeast. Are you a top or bottom fermenter?

(formerly Thinking Drinking) You’re not hallucinating, it’s an episode all about absinthe!

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Bibenders, Eleri and Tim discover the boozy origin of the Michelin Man, and get confused between that and the Marshmallow man from Ghostbusters.

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Cheers, toasting, foreign words, a Polish song. Eleri and Tim attempt them all in another bevvy of socio-historical drinks trivia.

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Following some confusion on what kind of “gay” the episode was about, Tim and Eleri explore Mount Gay rum and 18th century Molly houses.

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Summer’s here and although Wimbledon may be off the cards, we can still enjoy a Pimms and think about its origin. And that’s not all - we’ve got pickle and acorn juice too!

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Tim and Eleri have a fact battle over an historic honey drink and the buzzies that make it. Discover how ubiquitous mead really is - it’s not all Norsemen quaffing pints you know. Plus urban and rural bee adventures.

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Tim and Eleri tell their origin story through the medium of drinks in Estonia. What is in millimallikas? Why is everyone toasting to Terrible Sex? Who are Bicrosoft?

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Tim and Eleri are not getting married, but they are thinking about drinking through the experience. Something old (the meaning of “bride-ale”), something new (llama’s at a wedding), something borrowed (customs from other cultures), and something booze!

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Tim and Eleri have very different approaches to a pun-based episode title... They talk martini origins, bathtub gin, and drinking at home.

(formerly Thinking Drinking) A podcast about drinks and drinking: two friends share trivia and social history from the virtual pub. Absolutely no tasting notes. Tim and Eleri discuss the history of Prosecco and its Venetian cocktails, the perils of trying to make your own with a kit that cost £6.99, and a memory of some awful crisps.