Why do the people of Swansea celebrate a French wine on the third Thursday of November? Eleri and Tim investigate.
Episode 14: Pub Games (or "Basically exercise")
Or are they sports? Tim and Eleri deal with darts, skirmish with skittles, and battle with bearbaiting.
Episode 13: Halloweeners (or "Bloody Hell Mary!")
Bloody Hell Mary, it’s a Halloween special! Episode 13 gets spooky with the Zombie, pumpkin spice, and drinking in horror films.
Episode 12: Three Sheets to the Wind (or "Naval-gazing")
Ahoy matey, join Eleri and Tim for some high-seas adventure with boozy sailor slang, grog, madeira and a shanty.
Episode 11: Yeast (or "It's Marmite, not yourmite")
Concerned about a potential Marmite shortage, Tim and Eleri explore the world of yeast. Are you a top or bottom fermenter?
Episode 10: The Green Fairy (or "Drink until you see Kylie")
You’re not hallucinating, it’s an episode all about absinthe!
Episode 9: Bibenders (or "F you Cleopatra")
Bibenders, Eleri and Tim discover the boozy origin of the Michelin Man, and get confused between that and the Marshmallow man from Ghostbusters.
Episode 8: Cheers! (or "Anyone for toast?")
Cheers, toasting, foreign words, a Polish song. Eleri and Tim attempt them all in another bevvy of socio-historical drinks trivia.
Episode 7: Mounts and Mollies (or "Rum versus the gays")
Rum and gays! Following some confusion on what kind of “gay” the episode was about, Tim and Eleri explore Mount Gay rum and 18th century Molly houses.
Episode 6: Pimms and Wimbledon (or "Pickle my acorns")
Summer’s here and although Wimbledon may be off the cards, we can still enjoy a Pimms and think about its origin. And that’s not all - we’ve got pickle and acorn juice too!
Episode 5: Mead and Bees (or "Oh hooooneeey")
Tim and Eleri have a fact battle over an historic honey drink and the buzzies that make it.
Discover how ubiquitous mead really is - it’s not all Norsemen quaffing pints you know. Plus urban and rural bee adventures.
Episode 4: Estonia (or "The curse of terrible sex")
Tim and Eleri tell their origin story through the medium of drinks in Estonia.
What is in millimallikas? Why is everyone toasting to Terrible Sex? Who are Bicrosoft?
Episode 3: Wedding Drinks (or "llamarama")
Tim and Eleri are not getting married, but they are thinking about drinking through the experience.
Something old (the meaning of “bride-ale”), something new (llama’s at a wedding), something borrowed (customs from other cultures), and something booze!
Episode 2: Quarantini (or "Gin in the bath")
Tim and Eleri have very different approaches to a pun-based episode title…
They talk martini origins, bathtub gin and drinking at home.
Episode 1: Prosecco (or "Amateursecco")
A podcast about drinks and drinking: two friends share trivia and social history from the virtual pub. Absolutely no tasting notes.
Tim and Eleri discuss the history of Prosecco and its Venetian cocktails, the perils of trying to make your own with a kit that cost £6.99, and a memory of some awful crisps.