The Thinking Drinkers Podcast

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

Show Notes

This week, the Thinking Drinkers hail Harry Houdini's almost fatal attempt to escape from an urn full of fermenting Tetley's Beer, light a firework under several myths surrounding Guy Fawkes and big-up the famous Northampton massif with Three Hills brewery.
 
And as promised, here's our super duper mulled cider recipe. How do you like them apples?

Mulled cider 
 
Ingredients 
 
1½ litres of dry cider 
 
100ml Calvados 
 
400ml apple juice 
 
80g dark brown sugar 
 
2 cinnamon sticks, broken in half 
4 whole cloves 
zest 1 orange, pared into strips 
1 tbsp allspice berries 
 
Add cider, Calvados, apple juice and sugar to a saucepan, gently heat, then add the orange zest and spices, simmer on a low heat for 20 mins. 

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  • Wycombe
  • Farnham
  • Worcester
  • Bristol
  • Isle of Wight
  • Wolverhampton
  • London Leicester Square
  • Harpenden
  • Northallerton
  • Alnwick
  • Pendle
  • Oldham
  • Brighton
  • Bedford
  • Reading 
  • Didcot
  • Stroud
  • Leicester
  • Corby



 

What is The Thinking Drinkers Podcast?

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.