About
Hello. My name is Billy and I like booze.
I grew up in a brewery town in Sussex and come from a family of tasteful drinkers – I was dragged around wine tastings as a child, always had a polypin of local beer under the stairs at Christmas and was taught to respect alcohol from an early age. Especially my Dad’s collection of cognac miniatures.
I’m a real ale fan, whisky obsessive, wine learner and cocktail snob. I’m a member of CAMRA and the SMWS, have done Circle Line pubcrawls where we have only stopped at Good Beer Guide pubs (even when I could no longer see) and have attended classy tastings of many different types of wine, spirit and otherwise brewed beverage. I also like random polish lager bought from the corner shop, cheap sherry, rough whisky and the occasional can of John Smiths. I like to think of myself as ‘flexible’. I’m also a photographer and most of the photos on the blog are my own – anything uncredited is mine. I’m also trying to get into the world of video and audio-casting – I apologise for the various crimes I am going to commit in those fields.
These days Dad sells wine, my brother’s a trained cocktail barman and I wish from time to time that I still worked behind a bar as I did for most of the time when I was meant to be studying at university. For now I’ll draw on the knowledge of my family, the experience I’ve gained over the years and the regular salary that not working in a bar nets me, and seek to conquer the world of booze, one variety at a time.
I might also post a bit about food and music. I like those as well…