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2 for 1 at Hampton Court Palace Foodies Festival

Gintime is conducting a series of Gin Tutored tastings at Foodies Festivals across the country this summer where we will be exploring the delights of top gins such as Bulldog, Hendrick’s, Martin Miller’s, Plymouth, Tanqueray, Tanqueray 10 and The London Gin. Next one is Hampton Court Palace - 23rd to 25th May. Times are 3.30 on Saturday and Sunday and 1.30 on Monday. We’ve also teamed up with Rum Master Ian Burrell who will taste a fantastic selection of rums at 4.30 each day.

Entry to our events is free as part of the ticket price and all you have to do to get 2 for 1 entry to the Foodies is follow the instructions on the Invite below or print it out and bring it along on the day.

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Beefeater Gin Celebrates the Taste of Summer
Those clever Beefeater people have commissioned Master Mixologist Nick Strangeway to create summer cocktail recipes based on infusing Beefeater Gin with an array of delicious British summer fruits such as raspberries, rhubarb, redcurrants, cherries, gooseberries and blackcurrants. And they’re really easy to make. A Very Unusual Mixologist!
Could there be a gin brand that’s captured the imagination quite as much as Hendricks? Hendricks’s exotically named Brand Ambassador talks to Juliet Lawrence Wilson... Whoopee! It’s Elderflower Time
The weather may still be lousy but there’s one sure sign that summer is on the way! The Elder trees have just come into blossom and the race is on to make... The Cocktail Man of Cyberspace
In the daylight hours he works in the world of IT but as night falls Jay Hepburn becomes Cocktail Man! The founder of Oh Gosh catches up with Gintime.

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