The Thinking Drinkers Podcast
No matter what day of the year it is, there is always a compelling reason to enjoy a discerning drink. Responsibly of course.
This hilarious, eclectic and erudite elbow-bending adventure through the calendar reveals what you should be drinking this week - and a fascinating and compelling reason to drink it.
Hosts Ben McFarland & Tom Sandham, aka The Thinking Drinkers, have deftly decanted 40 years of unwavering dedication to awesome alcohol into a podcast that will broaden your booze horizons and make you seem even more interesting than you already are.
Steeped in eccentric events, fascinating facts and with all the cocktail recipes and recommendations a thirsty gastronome requires, this pod arms people with essential, some would say useless, anecdotal ammunition with which to impress your mates over a drink...or two.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 58
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2023
"I asked for ice, but this is ridiculous."
Hotel, Motel, Is That Your Foreskin? This week's pod recalls Tom's unfortunate and minor (very minor) costume malfunction on stage at the Alnwick Playhouse before raising a Rob Roy in memory of the W…
Public Enemas & Jiggers With Altitude
This week, we hark back to the halcyon days when strangers blew smoke up the bottoms of wet people and, in the whining words of Liam Gallagher, things get supersonic with a gin and tonic as we celeb…
Bananas & Pigs
After a week off, the hardest working beefcakes in the drinks business slide back into the Pod saddle, digging their heels into some hard-nosed aural journalism and whipping up some searing investiga…
It's Not Gonna Shuck Itself Is It?
If drink-soaked discussion of aphrodisiacal accompaniments to oysters, 'titanic plums', guinea pigs with dodgy fivers, hangover cures and some seriously decent discounted drinks are your thing then l…
Ryan Reynolds & The Vagina Museum
We tell the WWII story behind Whisky Galore before linking a classic gin cocktail to a tale of someone knocking a vase over.
You should listen.
The Ola Dubh range is available from The Whiskey Exchang…
Got 99 Problems But a Bee's Not One
Hail Henry VIII's death with Tynt Meadow - the only Trappist Beer in Britain.
Read Mark Dredge's great article about the monastery in Good Beer Hunting here:
Watch the documentary "Outside City" - …
Nine Inch Burns & Belgian Crack
This week, following our inaugural appearance on "This Morning", our pod adopts an alternative approach to Burns Night and solves a mystery for those looking to drink something in honour of Hercule P…
Prince Harry & Dumbo
Amid all this talk of Harry and Meghan, we explore Edward VII, aka "Dirty Bertie" - the original Playboy Prince with some cracking King's Ginger liqueur.
Then, having once again proven that #winewri…
"She's No Bananarama..."
Get yourself some Veuve Clicquot here
The Monkey Gland, created by Harry MacElhone
Ingredients
60ml London Dry Gin
45ml orange juice
1 teaspoon absinthe
1 teaspoon grenadine
1 teaspoon sugar syrup (op…
Dynamite 'n' Dysentery
Bonjour tout le monde,
In this week's podcast, discover how Alfred Nobel inspired peace after accidentally reading his own obituary, marvel at probly the best Danish design in the world and strap you…
Adrian Chiles Interview - The Good Drinker
In this week’s podcast, we chat to radio and TV presenter Adrian Chiles about his new book "The Good Drinker - How I Learned to Love Drinking Less" which is very much in tune with the Thinking Drinke…
Chill Winston - you're just Two Tents.
Manhattan
60ml (2 fl oz) Elijah Craig Kentucky Straight Bourbon
25ml (¾ fl oz) sweet vermouth | 3 dashes of Angostura bitters
Ice | Cherry, to garnish
• Pour the bourbon, vermouth and bitters into a mixi…
Cock Rock & Swashbuckling Psychos
This week's podcast features phallic-shaped outcrops and death-defying, rum guzzling, swashbuckling salty seamen.
Marvel as we expertly tip-toe around some sensitive issues of the past whilst simulta…
Dutch Ovens & Spirit Trumpets
This week, the Thinking Drinkers hail Harry Houdini's almost fatal attempt to escape from an urn full of fermenting Tetley's Beer, light a firework under several myths surrounding Guy Fawkes and big-…
Knockouts & Knockers
Date: October 30th
Event: 1974 Rumble In The Jungle - George Foreman v Muhammed Ali
Drink: The Uppercut
50ml Triple Sec
25ml Cachaça
15ml Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
15ml Pink Grapefruit Juice (fres…
Sucking The Monkey
This week, we shall ostly be drinking rum and red wine mixed with coca-cola. Here's why.
Event: Death of Lord Admiral Nelson
Agggghhh landlubbers. On October 21st, 1805, Lord Nelson was shot by a Frenc…
Bruce, Bulls & Bond
The first episode of our new podcast series recommends drinks to enjoy from October 7th to October 13th.
Listen to Lenny Bruce At Carnegie Hall
Here's Ursula Andres and her shells in Dr.No
C*cks**king …
