Gin and Topic

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting Star of Bombay with our guest Annabel Collinson, Business Partner & Director of Content at Visions of Soon Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why do teachers leave education? Does it have anything to do with gin? Well in case of this weeks guest, the answer is yes! But not in the way you think. We’re talking with Ryan Luke, an ex teacher and now Managing Director of Heart of Suffolk Distillery Exploring all the reasons why he and others have left or are leaving education And of course we’ll be drinking some of his gin too, Ivy’s gin to...

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting Heart of Suffolk’s Ivy’s Gin with our guest Ryan Luke Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why chose one Pangolin when you can have two! And we need all the Pangolins we can get right now. But what exactly is a Pangolin and why should we protect them? That’s what our guest Charles Emogor, a phd candidate from the University of Cambridge, is going to tell us all about. And we’ll be doing our bit to help the Pangolin by drinking some Pangolin Gin. Cheers Support this show http://supporter...

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting Pangolin Gin with our guest Charles Emogor Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

See a bottle of Bombay, pick it up, all the day you’ll… wonder how they manage to make it consistently good for you to sup. Luckily for you our guest this week is Dr Anne Brock, Master Distiller at Bombay Sapphire.  So she can enlighten us or the process of distilling gin, how they manage to create the same quality consistently and with growing demand, as well as , crafting something new duri...

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This special week leading up to World Gin Day we're tasting Bombay Premier Cru with our guest Dr Anne Brock Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Do you remember learning about the amoeba? Nothing really interesting, just a single cell stepping stone in evolution, yeah? Well, we’re discovering just how interesting these single cell microbes can be. Like ones made of glass, ones with tentacles, ones that know when they are up or down. And we especially like the ones with tiny mouths that eat as if their are slurping spaghetti. Join us and ou...

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting Hendricks with our guest Dr Genoveva Esteban Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ten Legs, Three Thumbs, Wings, Horns, Extra arms, How would you augment your body? This week we’re talking with Dani Cloud, an augmentation and upper-limb prosthetics designer.  And as well as exploring the extra things we might all like to add to our bodies, we’ll be asking Can your brain adapt to wearing an extra thumb? Could adding a heartbeat into a prosthetic arm change the wearers respo...

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting Ten Legs with our guest Dani Clode Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are cemeteries just for the dead and the grieving? The fact that this week’s guest, Janine Marriott is Public Engagement Manager at Arnos Vale Cemetery, suggests otherwise. So what do cemeteries have to offer? Some things might surprise you. Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting Psychopomp Woden gin with our guest Janine Marriott Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Do your happy dance, we're back with a new series! And what makes us more happy than the first episode in a new series? Well, GIN of course! And this week we're combining gin with happiness itself as we explore 'What makes us happy' with plenty of Opihr and our guest Dr Nic Gibson, a Lecturer in Positive Psychology at Anglia Ruskin University. Hope it makes you happy too Cheers Support this show h...

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting Opihr with our guest Dr Nic Gibson Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we’re finally getting everyone together to taste Xoringuer Luckily we still had some left from Christmas Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Instead of our usual ‘Sorry Ben’s, ‘Cut that Ben’s, and talking nonsense for Ben to listen to later. We thought it was about time that Ben joined us as our guest! So this week we're asking ‘what exactly does Ben do?’ And as a change from saying 'Sorry Ben', we're saying 'Sorry Emma' instead as she couldn't be with us. But we look forward to sharing this gin with her in the Tasting Room at some poi...

The end of a series would not be complete without us sharing some of our many 'cut thats' and 'sorry Ben's' So here are all our sins from series 4. Enjoy Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The end of a series wouldn't be complete without a little extra something. As always, we couldn't include all of our conversations in the main episode. So we kept some bits on the side to share with you later. And here they are.. Enjoy Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Well we foreshadowed this episode in our Tasting Room on Tuesday Boozeday  So, if you’ve listened to that already, you’re probably guessed that this week’s guest is Paul Feig! American Filmmaker, Director, Producer, Writer, Actor, Comedian, Gin maker... and Best dressed man about town And our question this week is 'Making a film and making a gin, any similarities?' Cheers Support this show ht...

It’s Tuesday Boozeday! As a surprise twist to the end of series 4, we’re bringing you an extra special Tasting Room. This time we’ve got everyone together! Join Sarah, Áine, Emma and our guest... Can you guess who it is?  The gin might give it away as we’re tasting Artingstall’s Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

Welcome to the final Gin & Topic Tasting Room of this series We're ending with Whitley Neil Rhubarb and Ginger Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’ve suddenly collided into the final episode of this series. And our subject the Large Hadron Collider With this week’s guest Dr Sam Gregson, aka the Bad Boy of Science, a particle physicist, science communicator and YouTuber We’ll be asking what is it, what do they do there and why should we care? Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting Sipsmith Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Should we build a new runway at Heathrow?  Yes or No, it doesn’t really matter, it’s all about power, rationality, politics and most importantly planning. Our guest this week is Jill Ashcroft Campion, a third year PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge and lawyer.  And she’s going to take us through the complex web of infrastructure planning Thankfully we have also planned plenty o...