The global challenge has been set: with 26 countries competing to win, the cocktail shakers have now been rinsed and glasses left out to dry, as the finalists await the grand final of this year’s Beefeater 24 Global Bartender Competition. … Continue reading
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What We Learned at London Cocktail Week
Gintime Editor Geraldine Coates reports from the frontline of London Cocktail Week 2013. London Cocktail Week’s programme featured 250 events, with an increasing focus on on gin naturally. Obviously there was a lot of cherry picking required to hear about … Continue reading
Master Distillers Seminar “Me and My Botanical” at London Cocktail Week
So London Cocktail Week is almost upon us again and it’s time to make some hard choices of what to see and where to go in this very packed programme. We can confidently say where Gintime will be on Tuesday … Continue reading
Chalking up the Firsts
Patience Gould meets Master Distiller Desmond Payne in his HQ at the Beefeater Distillery in London, to discuss the launch of the ultra premium gin Burrough’s Reserve – and to taste it too! Since the launch of Beefeater 24 back … Continue reading
Gin in Spain Stays Mainly on the Up
Geraldine Coates takes a closer look at the market for gin in Spain with the help of Paco Recuero, Global Director of Beefeater Gin. Spain is the second largest market in the world and the largest in Europe for premium … Continue reading
Beefeater 24 Launches Global Bartender Competition Edition 3
Beefeater 24, one of the world’s leading super premium gins, is inviting bartenders worldwide to showcase their creativity and mixology skills by entering this year’s Beefeater 24 Global Bartender Competition which, for the first time in the competition’s history, will … Continue reading
Beefeater 24 Gets Arty
Beefeater Gin’s super premium expression, Beefeater 24, has unveiled a stunning, limited edition pack based on a hand-drawn illustration by ink evangelist, Johanna Basford. The painstaking design – which features a unique peacock motif, inspired by the 12 fine botanicals … Continue reading
Real Proper Apple Juice
We all know how brilliantly apple juice goes with gin – cold for example in Caorunn Gin to enhance its apple botanicals and fab in hot punches in citrussy gins like Beefeater 24. So good news that at long last … Continue reading
Beefeater Burrough’s Reserve Launches
Ooh we’ve been wondering about this but hot off the press is the news that Chivas Brothers has launched Beefeater Burrough’s Reserve described as “a hand-crafted, ultra premium gin unlike any other”. Distilled in a small historic copper still from … Continue reading
Quality WILL out
Plymouth Gin and Beefeater Gin have both won double gold medals at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition, with Beefeater going on to win the prestigious Best Gin award. In addition Plymouth Gin and Plymouth Sloe Gin received the Ultimate … Continue reading
Ultimate G and T Tasting: Round Three
Patience Gould reports on the penultimate round of the Ultimate G and T Test. The last round – before the final – of the Ultimate Gin & Tonic tasting took place in March, at the redoubtable Portobello Star, which is … Continue reading
Beefeater 24 Grapefruit Fizz
Although we tend to think of cocktails as quintessentially American, we tend to forget there’s a tradition of making cocktails in Britain that goes back to Victorian times. Although of course we didn’t call them cocktails but rather fizzes, cobblers, … Continue reading
All You Want to Know About Beefeater Gin
Master Distiller and Creator of Beefeater 24 Desmond Payne will be available to answer your questions via twitter on Thursday 28th February. Please use the hashtag #AskDesmond for your questions.
Gin Rambling in London
David T. Smith of Summer Fruit Cup reports on London’s first Gin Ramble for Gintime. February 1st saw the first ever Gin Ramble, organised by the Wine & Spirits Education Trust – a gin-packed day that would see a group … Continue reading
Gintime’s Favourite Beefeater 24 Cocktails
The final round of Beefeater’s Global Bartenders Competition proved very tasty indeed – in more ways than one! Patience Gould highlights Gintime’s top two faves. What a super evening! I refer of course to the finals of Beefeater 24’s Global … Continue reading
Nathan O’Neill the New Beefeater 24 Global Comp Champion
Following an exciting competition, Nathan O’Neill of The Merchant Hotel bar in Belfast won this year’s Beefeater 24 Global Bartender Competition Grand Final in London. Beefeater 24 created the competition to inspire and challenge the bartending community, inviting international bartenders to … Continue reading
The Winning Beefeater 24 Cocktail
Last Friday, Nathan O’Neill from The Merchant Hotel in Belfast was named the UK winner of the ‘Beefeater 24 Cocktail Competition’, held at Circus in central London. Nathan will now represent the UK in the global final at the Beefeater … Continue reading
Hendrick’s and You Know who win through..
Our Ultimate G&T Tasting Experience is certainly throwing up some unexpected results. Ten gins, three tonic waters and a panel of gin freaks consisting of Jake Burger of the Ginstitute, acclaimed spirits writer Patience Gould and Geraldine Coates, Editor of … Continue reading
Gin Cocktails and Food Friends
Pairing cocktails with food is not exactly a new idea. Walk around any decent sized Spanish town during the hours of paseo and you’ll see people enjoying their sundowners with a bowl of delicious tapas in front of them. Russians … Continue reading
Our Gins Definitely the Best
The purpose of the Ultimate Spirits Challenge competition is to identify, recognize and reward those products that stand out in their respective categories, showing superior quality. Multiple panels of the highest-qualified experts blind taste each entry by classification in appropriately … Continue reading
