The Thinking Drinkers: Around The World in 80 Drinks
By Ben McFarland, Tom Sandham
No matter what day of the year it is, there is always a compelling reason to enjoy a discerning drink. Responsibly of course.
This hilarious, eclectic and erudite elbow-bending adventure through the calendar reveals what you should be drinking this week - and a fascinating and compelling reason to drink it.
Hosts Ben McFarland & Tom Sandham, aka The Thinking Drinkers, have deftly decanted 40 years of unwavering dedication to awesome alcohol into a podcast that will broaden your booze horizons and make you seem even more interesting than you already are.
Steeped in eccentric events, fascinating facts and with all the cocktail recipes and recommendations a thirsty gastronome requires, this pod arms people with essential, some would say useless, anecdotal ammunition with which to impress your mates over a drink...or two.
This hilarious, eclectic and erudite elbow-bending adventure through the calendar reveals what you should be drinking this week - and a fascinating and compelling reason to drink it.
Hosts Ben McFarland & Tom Sandham, aka The Thinking Drinkers, have deftly decanted 40 years of unwavering dedication to awesome alcohol into a podcast that will broaden your booze horizons and make you seem even more interesting than you already are.
Steeped in eccentric events, fascinating facts and with all the cocktail recipes and recommendations a thirsty gastronome requires, this pod arms people with essential, some would say useless, anecdotal ammunition with which to impress your mates over a drink...or two.
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Got 99 Problems But a Bee's Not One
Some of the things pondered in this week's podcast: Henry VIII and his hop-related head retention; chilled out monks, Trappist beers, boozy bargains and, last but by no means least - yeast and the life of bees. -
Nine Inch Burns & Belgian Crack
This week, following our inaugural appearance on "This Morning", our pod adopts an alternative approach to Burns Night and solves a mystery for those looking to drink something in honour of Hercule Poirot. -
Prince Harry & Dumbo
We kick off 2023 by cracking open a couple of classic liqueurs to celebrate "Kiss A Ginger Day" and the birthday of Marco Pantani - an Italian maverick whose life was, quite literally, full of ups and downs. -
"She's No Bananarama..."
This week, we uncork the extraordinary story of Madame Veuve Cliquot. And if a gin cocktail created in honour of someone who sewed monkey’s testicles onto French people doesn't pique your interest then, quite frankly, we don't know what we can do any… -
Dynamite 'n' Dysentery
This week's prize winning pod discusses Anglo-French fisticuffs and Alfred Nobel with a Saison in one hand and a pint of lager in the other. -
Adrian Chiles Interview - The Good Drinker
TV & Radio Presenter Adrian Chiles discusses his book: "The Good Drinker - How I Learned To Love Drinking Less" - a memoir of his changing relationship with drink. We discuss his quest for moderation (as opposed to complete abstention) and explore ho… -
Chill Winston - you're just Two Tents.
Howdy. We gobble down some top-class Thanksgiving chat featuring 'Large Melons' and then explore the drinking repertoire of the UK's most notorious elbow-bending omnivore. Churchill? Of course. -
Cock Rock & Swashbuckling Psychos
A bats**t crazy rum-drinking pirate and some whisky-sipping American adventurers inspire us to reach for some El Dorado 12 year-old sipping rum and some deer-digesting Jagermeister. -
Pils, Gin and a Badly Drawn Baby
Czech out our latest pod featuring the 180th birthday of the first ever Pilsner, some chin-scratching appreciation of William Hogarth's Gin Lane and, if that isn't enough (and it should be), some damn fine chat in Latin. And a cracking Rudyard Kiplin… -
Dutch Ovens & Spirit Trumpets
How did yeast nearly kill Harry Houdini? Is sticking toddlers in a Royal Mail postbox treason? What the hell is a spirit trumpet? We answer all these questions with a couple of beers in this week's podcast