no tasting notes - with Tim and Eleri

Tim and Eleri celebrate “The Immortal Robert Burns” by mostly talking about whisky, failing to sing Auld Lang Syne, and massacring Scots dialect poetry.

It’s a tradition for the first podcast of the year to be a sober episode, so Eleri and Tim are steeping their bags in the world of tea.

Eleri and Tim chat winter beer festivals and traditions in Belgium, genever, and swap their xmas presents.

Tim and Eleri kick off the festive season with some excellent vintage Port, and terrible Portuguese. Try some Fado music: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWWPg9Mo6aXVl?si=7f3dc1a565aa4102

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Eleri and Tim discover the boozy benefits of the sorghum grain, from umqombothi to baiju. Sing along! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCdM8BR6k-s

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Tim and Eleri get the munchies, and seek out the salty secrets of pub snacks.

(formerly Thinking Drinking) In part two of the seasonal special, Eleri and Tim set things on fire. With booze.

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Eleri and Tim start this seasonal two-parter by paying their respects to the devil and all things helles-ish.

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Get the measure of booze with Tim and Eleri. Join us for a pint (but is that Imperial, French Canadian, or Scottish?)

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Grab the fava beans, it’s time to talk Chianti with Tim and Eleri. What’s a fiasco? Why is Fermi in this episode? And what’s this song all about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuw2cZd_P8E

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Journey with Tim and Eleri to the dawn of civilisation for a piss-up, Assyrian style. Follow along with images from the British Museum collection in the show notes. Clay Plaque: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1925-0615-4 Drinking Tube: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1928-1010-95 Cylinder Seal: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collecti...

(formerly Thinking Drinking) P..p..p..pick up a Pilsner and listen to boozy musings about brewing in Czechia, with occasional tourists Tim and Eleri.

(formerly Thinking Drinking) In this special episode, we encourage you to expand your vocabulary. Like if you went on a bender with Suzi Dent.

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Continuing their exploration of the wino-deity, Eleri and Tim chat about the dramatic side of Dionysus.

(formerly Thinking Drinking) All hail the god of wine! In the first of a two-parter, Tim and Eleri go Greek and step into the Bacchanal.

(formerly Thinking Drinking) For **** sake, it’s another episode. Eleri and Tim chin it and chat about Japanese rice wine, or is it rice beer?

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Staggering from one fact to the next, Tim and Eleri explore well-known pub crawls, and a couple of dubious ones.

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Tim and Eleri attempt to overcome their dislike of vodka by learning all about its Russian history and customs. За здоровье!

(formerly Thinking Drinking) To honour one year of drinks trivia and social history, Tim and Eleri are in a battle of wits to see who can remember the most about the 26 topics from the past year. And you can quiz along! And as mentioned, here are your "music rounds"... TIM'S SIP-IT MIX https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1DflFpCXeOMAuZYT1KxJS5?si=_DVzsMMmSMuUfFhG82Uc8Q ELERI'S CHIN-IT MIX https://op...

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Ignore the children and grab a glass of rosé - because you’re worth it hun. Eleri and Tim explore the pitfalls of gendered booze and some pioneering women.

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Tim and Eleri get dramatic about drinks in the world of William Shakespeare.

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Those adorable little booze barrels around the necks of floofy St Bernard dogs get their own episode… as long as Eleri and Tim have enough to say about them.

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Eleri and Tim pucker-up for an episode of wince-worthy chat about sour cocktails, sour beers, sour soft drinks, and generally being sour bishes.

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Tim and Eleri ponder the great beyond and whether they have a decent wine menu.

(formerly Thinking Drinking) Eleri and Tim tackle cultural appropriation with all the sensitivity of people who are also consuming rum. Here’s the story of tiki cocktails…