Chelsea Flower Show inspires bars to create floral cocktails
Floral flavours will be flowing in London this month as bars concoct special cocktails to celebrate the annual RHS Chelsea Flower Show. At Dukes Bar at Dukes Hotel in St James’s, legendary head bartender Alessandro Palazzi has harnessed the flavours of Elephant Strength – the navy-strength expression of Elephant Gin – to create a drink …
Shape-shifting spirit inspires new Ardbeg limited edition
Islay distillery Ardbeg is to unveil a new limited edition as part of its annual celebration of Ardbeg Day on June 3. The new Ardbeg Kelpie is the distillery’s first whisky with a heart matured in virgin oak from the Black Sea coast which imparts incredibly deep flavour notes, with ABV of 46%. Married with …
Be At One set to expand to 33 sites with Bournemouth deal
Be At One cocktail bar group continues to expand across the UK by taking on a site in Bournemouth – its second on the south coast. It has completed a deal on the site of a former nightclub on Richmond Hill, with basement trading space and initial capacity of 200 people. The premises will undergo …
Hayman’s gins set to move to new distillery in London
Distillation of Hayman’s gins is to be moved from Essex to London where the Hayman family first started making spirits over 150 years ago. The new distillery will be housed inside a period brick warehouse in Balham in south-west London – less than four miles from where chairman Christopher Hayman’s great grandfather, James Burrough, set …
