Archives for May 1, 2012

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Courvoisier: demystifying the Cognac cocktail

By Matthew Moggridge

Courvoisier, a leading Cognac from Maxxium UK, is collaborating with three top mixologists in the development of a major consumer cocktail event this summer.

Time to prove that beer is more popular than pasties - Sign the petition

By Rob Willock

Nearly 500,000 people in the UK have signed petitions against the so-called ‘pasty tax’, which will see a 20% rate of VAT applied to heated pasties and pies. Meanwhile, at the time of writing, the ‘Stop the Beer Duty Escalator’ petition had managed to...

Act now to Save our Scrumpy

By Pete Brown

If we care about rural traditions then we should all act now to save our farmhouse cider-making industry, argues Pete Brown.