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American spirits

 TAGS:A friend has just returned from his trip down Route 66 (Fede, I'm so jealous!!!)... Although he recommends to take the highway that runs parallel to it, which you can leave whenever you want to visit the places you fancy, and does not have such an archaic speed limit. The fact is that all what he told us about his trip made me inspire for this post which will deal about all those American spirits that we cannot miss in our collection, or at our meeting with friends this coming weekend.

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The gin & tonic and its pairing

 - From tapas we pass to dishes and its tasting, then the art kitchen with new and impossible flavours and now everyone offers flavored gin & tonics with their pairing.

Yes, the tasting of gin and tonics is fashionable nowadays and not only in bars and restaurants, but at numerous gin and tonic tastings with their respective pairings to enjoy a full evening. We've seen it at events like Madrid Fusion and restaurants of top chefs like Elena Arzak.

An example to pair perfectly the gin and tonic are hamburgers. Nobody would say it before, but now this trend coming from United States joins the tasting of burgers with gins of various types and brands.

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St. Patrick is here again!

 TAGS:If you reading this post you probably have at home a significant collection of hats in green and black, a T-shirt in which sleeve you can read the word Guinness, several key chains, bottle openers and merchandising of all kinds and you know it is not going to be the only one, and neither the last one ... because in less than a week we will be celebrating St. Patrick again! Yuuuuupiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!

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Sherry wine: trend on the UK again

 TAGS:The retro is trendy and it is quite interesting to see that all those things that were in years ago, are suddenly back into fashion even in a stronger way than originally. I'm not talking about music or neither clothes, I mean the sherry wine which is gaining prominence in the UK, at any party and after work that rules.

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Calsberg: Premier League official beer

 TAGS:England surprised us all this year as for the first time ever, the official beer of the Premier League will be Carlsberg, a Danish beer. This fact disturbs us because what happened to the London Pride? And what about Bombardier? Who does not remember the Hobgoblin beer while watching a football game?

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Chivas Whisky flows into the river - Enormous loss for the company

 TAGS:Thousands of litres of whisky have been flushed away last Tuesday from the Chivas Brothers plant in the locality of Dumbarton in the East of Scotland. According to reports of BBC and the Scottish Sun, it happened at night time while workers were cleaning up the equipment. A mistake in the cleaning up process was responsible for the loss of estimated 18.000 litres of whisky that flushed away instead of the waste water.

"We are currently investigating an accidental loss on the 26 of february at our Dumbarton site, where some spirit was released to the local water treatment plant. There has been no release of spirit to the river Leven or any other local water course. We have informed Scottish Water and all other relevant authorities", a spokesman of Chivas told the local authorities.

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The Italian grape Nebbiolo

 TAGS:The wines of Italy are recognized all around the world, and their character and good taste are due to grape varieties such as Nebbiolo, typical of the Piedmont region in northern Italy. It's a really valued red grape variety, grown only in this region and in some South American countries, but to a small extent.

The intense dark color is quite characteristic of other varieties of red grapes and it has a somewhat late maturation (sometimes, around November) than other red grapes that originate here. The wines elaborated from Nebbiolo grapes thanks are high quality and offer an intense ruby and burgundy color.

Its aroma is varied: ripe fruit (cherry, plum...), truffles (abundant in this Italian area), wood... and the flavor is strong and slightly acidic. Bear in mind that these are wines with an important alcohol content, which is usually about 14°, approximately.

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The drinks of Sex and the City

 TAGS:There was  a time when I was waiting for the adventures of Carrie&Co on the television set with excitement the whole week.  Have you gone through this as well?..Come on, admit your addiction..

From Downtown to Manhattan, the protagonists didn't leave out just one singular hotspot or fashionable bar. It doesn't matter if they were shot in trendy street coffee shops or singular bars as the Bed Club, where you lie on beds and drink and eat, we all remember the scenes that made us so jealous in every episode. And honestly who wouldn't like to party as Carrie and her friends just once in her life?

As it happened with Carrie's favourite high-heels, the Manolo Blahniks, there are cocktails that became famous thanks to the series.

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