I love my cheeky vouchers – Wowcher, Groupon, Living Social and KGB Deals – and tend to take advantage of them whenever I can. Not only are they cheaper but the emails I get also tempt me to do things I hadn’t previously through about and it provides excellent fodder for good presents.
So this Saturday was my outing with one of my best friends to Gandteatime which is essentially a gin tasting with a few cakes and sandwiches to soak up the alcohl. We met at Liverpool Street and stumbled off to Liberty Lounge which is a sweet slightly grungy little underground bar near Petticoat Lane. They were a little late starting but it gave me time to chat to my friend before we delved into the history and science of gin.
We learnt about distilling, the botanicals and the history of gin while tasting various types of neat gin. Sounds vile but it was nice to have the opportunity to taste the different flavourings without the overwhelming taste of tonic. Indeed, I found myself saying things like ‘Ooo, you can taste the citrus’ or ‘yes, it does have a bit of cucumber doesn’t it?’.
With sandwiches, cakes and scones to soak up the booze, we also enjoyed a G&T as well as a martini with perhaps a little too much vermouth but that is just my opinion. An hour and a half passed quickly before we wandered off to continue our conversation over – unsurprisingly – more gin based drinks.
Definitely recommend that you go and – if you don’t like gin – they also hold tequila, rum and whisky events which sound to paraphrase several east end boys “wicked”.
Lxx
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