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.
Episode 94: Last Orders (or "Deathbed Drinkies")
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.
Episode 93: Gifts (or "Hampers and Champers")
‘tis the season for boozy gifting and Tim and Eleri have some facts to swap too.
Episode 92: Berries - Part Two (or "A ramble through the bramble")
Eleri and Tim are Lingon around for part two of “Berries”. Take me to Kirsch!
Episode 91: Berries - Part One (or "Blowing a raspberry")
From Cassis to Chambord, Tim tastes blackcurrants and Eleri blows a raspberry in the first of the berry two-parter.
Episode 90: Poison - Part Two (or "Sucking the Sauce with Socrates")
Spooktober the second sees Eleri and Tim sipping cyanide, speaking with Socrates, and suspecting seals.
Episode 89: Poison - Part One (or "Toxic Taints")
Tim and Eleri get toxic over poisons in the first of this spooky season two-parter. This week: poison pens, phylloxera, and a snakebite.
Episode 88: Hops (not "Scotch")
Tim and Eleri hop to it with some history and trivia of beer’s favourite accessory.
Episode 87: Algae (or "The Sea Weed")
Coastal gins, kelpie beers, biofilters and freezing foragers are on the oceanic menu with Eleri and Tim.
Episode 86: Evaporation (or "I know why the bulbous bird drinks")
Inspired by that episode of The Simpsons where Homer puts a drinking bird to work, Tim wonders how it maintains its constitution…
Episode 85: Guinness (or "Widgets and Creamy Head")
Eleri and Tim imbibe the black stuff as they pick the cream of Guinness facts, history and advertising.
Episode 84: Nice Can (or "Because we can can can")
Tim and Eleri talk about metal cylindrical drinks containers - because they can.
Episode 83: Dasani (or "The Peckham Spring")
Stick a pony in your pocket, because Tim has got a story which links the British sitcom Only Fools and Horses to the downfall of a major bottled water brand.
Episode 82: Shiraz (or "Que Syrah, Syrah")
Tim and Eleri w(h)ine about Syrah, or is it Shiraz? Featuring poetry, huns, and a singalong.
Episode 81: Bath (or "Jane Austen, boozehound")
Emerging from Tim’s laptop of two years-ago, this short and shaky episode is finally free from lockdown. The drinking duo had their first post-pandemic pint in the lovely Bath (the city, not doing soapy-good-times together), and now you can find out what they chatted about in the pub.
Episode 80: Pub Quiz 3 (or "Your a vision and a mess")
Tim and Eleri do their annual pub quiz, all about the previous year’s podcast topics. Will Tim make it 3 wins in a row, or will Eleri get a grip? This year we’re live (just about) from Eurovision, so expect some extra camp content, very strong language, and retching.
Episode 79: Tantalus (or "Thirst Trap")
Tim is tantalising, and Eleri is thirsty. Eternally punish yourself with this dry, dry episode.
Episode 78: Orange (or "Loose screws")
Eleri and Tim go Orange for King’s Day, ask whether OJ is OK, and triple their secs.
Episode 77: Drinking Chocolate (or "Coocoo for Cacao")
Eleri and Tim guzzle hot choc like Willy Wonka taught them nothing. From Meso-America to Quakers, conching to chocolate fountains, we explore all things cacao.
Episode 76: Trappists (or "#Lads4theLord")
Tim and Eleri go full monk-mode with Trappist beers.