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Fi Shoop
@fiwhiskydram.bsky.social
I talk, write and drink – and I talk and write about drink with the odd rescue greyhound comment thrown in for good measure. To be found at drinks festivals or on air talking about them

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I love it! Add water and there's farmyard funk with hay bales wrapped in black plastic in the sun, barbecued plantain in ginger syrup, clove balls, apple turnovers, radishes, Charbonnel et Walker milk chocolate truffles and Maple Brazil Nuts. Fab! #BraveNewSpirits
May 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Water reveals farmyard funk, freshly printed magazines, rubber galore, overripe apple and plantain with ginger syrup, silage, seaweed, Korean chicken wings, peanut butter on freshly baked baps, and fig rolls #BraveNewSpirits
May 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
With water, there's burnt hot buttered toasted teacake, trifle, roast strawberries with Balsamic vinegar, brick dust, mush pudding (custard with orange blossom honey and sponge biscuits), orange sorbet, slight sulphur, and a nougat and orange posset finish #BraveNewSpirits
May 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Water reveals fruit – raspberries, blueberries and Mirabelle plums – plus butter biscuits, honey biscuits, plum tart, sponge cake with syrup, treacle tart with crème Anglaise, banana mint, custard creams, and celery #BraveNewSpirits
May 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Spicier with water with ginger, cloves, star anise, cardamom, cinnamon and white pepper, plus milk chocolate ginger creams, gingersnaps, orange Fruit Gums, Terry's Chocolate Orange and a very spicy finish, plus strawberries, and brandy ice cream #BraveNewSpirits
May 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Water reveals more fruit but in glacé form – red berries, apricot, pineapple and orange – plus gooseberry fool, maple syrup and vanilla ice cream on hot waffles, hot buttered toasted teacakes with honey, strawberry and raspberry jams #BraveNewSpirits
May 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
With water, there's a hint of sulphur, plus angel cakes with buttercreams, tannins, redcurrant jelly, Christmas cake, vanilla fudge, Horlick's, spiced apple tarte tatin, cinnamon twists, gingersnaps, clove balls, aniseed balls and a plum and ginger pie with crème Anglaise finish #BraveNewSpirits
May 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Water reveals Fox's Crunch Creams, roast chestnuts, Charbonnel et Walker Fondant Creams and Maple Brazil Nuts, coconut shampoo, beef dripping, red wine jus, duck in plum sauce, chrome teaset with gunpowder tea #BraveNewSpirits
May 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Pinot Blanc is an unusual cask, I'm intrigued! Any idea what country it's from, please? #BraveNewSpirits
May 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
My childhood cakes as tasting notes are making me so hungry! #BraveNewSpirits
May 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM