4. Cocktail beers: brewing's new romantics

Must beer 'taste like beer'?

Anthony Gladman

04 Dec 2020 — 11 min read

An Aperol Spritz on a bar with blurred party atmosphere in the background.

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If life teaches us anything it’s that you must take your pleasure where you can. Spritzes and the aperitivo ritual can provide the firebreak we crave between work and play.

Narrow cobblestone street at night with parked cars and motorbikes, flanked by tall, shuttered buildings. A glowing archway illuminates two distant pedestrians under warm streetlights.

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Warm, atmospheric basement cocktail bar with exposed brick walls, amber lighting, red bar stools, and backlit bottles behind the bar

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A copper pot still viewed through the open wooden doors of a converted stone barn. The doors are painted sage green. There is neat and organised pipework on the wall behind the still.

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In Wiltshire, Witchmark feels like an established name even before its first whisky release.

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First the mark, then the malt