Akevitt Blank

An aquavit designed for mixing, made with locally foraged ingredients, has been released by Norwegian distillery Oslo HÃ¥ndverksdestilleri (OHD). Akevitt Blank is made with locally foraged ingredients such as caraway, meadowsweet, heather flower, angelica root, juniper, sorrel, calamus root, camomile flower and St John’s wort. Close relationships with the farmers allow OHD to source its …

Hamlet cocktail aquavit

A cocktail of most excellent fancy has been created at a London restaurant to celebrate the West End production of Hamlet, topped with an ice cube shaped like the skull of Yorick. Aquavit London in St James’s Market, off Regent Street St James’s, is offering a drink called the Royal Blood – Alas Pour Yorick, …