Episode 88: Hops (not "Scotch")

This year’s super-sized “Dry January” episode is an overview of the dreaded US Prohibition, why it went wrong, and how Britain avoided it.Check out this archive of British anti-prohibition posters:https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/archives_online/exhibitions/prohibition/

It’s the end of the year, so Tim and Eleri are calling Last Orders on time at the bar, funeral fun, and the hazards of embalming fluid.

‘tis the season for boozy gifting and Tim and Eleri have some facts to swap too.

Eleri and Tim are Lingon around for part two of “Berries”. Take me to Kirsch!

From Cassis to Chambord, Tim tastes blackcurrants and Eleri blows a raspberry in the first of the berry two-parter. 

Spooktober the second sees Eleri and Tim sipping cyanide, speaking with Socrates, and suspecting seals.

Tim and Eleri get toxic over poisons in the first of this spooky season two-parter. This week: poison pens, phylloxera, and a snakebite.

Tim and Eleri hop to it with some history and trivia of beer’s favourite accessory.

Coastal gins, kelpie beers, biofilters and freezing foragers are on the oceanic menu with Eleri and Tim.

Inspired by that episode of The Simpsons where Homer puts a drinking bird to work, Tim wonders how it maintains its constitution…