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What's in season this summer?

Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown share their pick of the season’s abundance.

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10 July, 2025

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What's in season this Spring?

Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown branch out to cover the best market-bought plants alongside those they grow to elevate cocktails.

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17 March, 2025

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Anistatia Miller & Jared Brown's mixed drinks that make the most of tomato season

Tomatoes and the plants they come from have all manner of uses in cocktails, as Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown recount.

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14 August, 2024

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Spring drinks: making cocktails with Rhubarb

As the season’s bounty becomes apparent across parks, woodlands and verges, the garden offers a chance to flirt with early emerging and versatile rhubarb. Anistatia Miller & Jared Brown have the perfect pairings.

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23 April, 2024

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Techniques and trends... cheese cocktails

Tyler Zielinski chews the fat over the latest in umami-style cocktails.

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31 August, 2023

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Monica Berg's bar diary: Summer

Monica Berg opens her diary to summer, when watermelons come into season.

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03 July, 2023

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Monica Berg's bar diary: Spring

In the first of a new series, Monica Berg from Tayēr + Elementary walks us through her approach to seasonal drinks, opening up the calendar to spring.

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13 April, 2023

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Playing with fire: Anistatia Miller & Jared Brown's trials on smoking spirits

Anistatia Miller & Jared Brown enjoy making a meal out of smoked spirits, thanks to a happy accident that revealed meat flavours from a roast could happily marry with the wood aromas.

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11 January, 2023

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Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown on early summer foraged ingredients

Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown get busy foraging in the hedgerows for abundant unusual ingredients

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04 July, 2022

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Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown on green and purple shiso drinks

Summer - at no other time of year is nature's bounty more, well, bounteous. Jared Brown and Anistatia Miller switch swizzel sticks for dibbers and make the most of seasonal ingredients to give cocktails a unique twist.

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31 May, 2022

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Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown on berry cordial and ratafia

As we approach the British berry season, we need to plan ahead. Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown are armed with recipes to make sure the summer bounty lasts into autumn.

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18 May, 2022

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Spring drinks: gorse, primrose, hawthorn flowers and birch sap

The first bounty of spring yields myriad opportunities for foraging. Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown lead us on the trail of the finest free ingredients nature has to offer at this time.

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22 March, 2022

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Winter drinks with birch, pine and rosehips

Winter might be the dormant season, but Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown still find plenty of jobs to do to make sure they get the most out of their garden year-round.

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28 January, 2022

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How to make jams for cocktails

Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown aren't out in the garden as much in winter, but that doesn't stop them making jellies that can be shaken into luscious two-ingredient tipples.

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20 January, 2022

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Garden to glass: Rosehip drinks

One of winter's wonders, the rosehip is a versatile addition to any home kitchen and bar. Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown reveal some of their favourite uses for this flavoursome fruit.

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18 November, 2021

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Cherry picking flavour - how to think seasonally

Monica Berg looks at how to get the most out of seasonal ingredients by concentrating on flavour rather than locality.

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14 October, 2021

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Smashing pumpkins: seasonal drinks in October

Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown share some suggestions for jumping on the pumpkin bandwagon to make the most of this perennial seasonal favourite.

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11 October, 2021

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Garden to Glass: making drinks with melon

Anistasia Miller and Jared Brown capture the sunshine flavours of melons with some innovative takes on this seasonal fruit favourite.

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26 July, 2021

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Garden to Glass: recipes for autumn berries and apples

Autumn’s bounty yields many opportunities to add new twists to old favourites. Anistatia Miller & Jared Brown are out in their garden among nature’s finest.

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07 September, 2021

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Artichokes, hazelnuts, walnuts...the best ingredients for Autumnal liqueurs

Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown make the most of an overabundance of nuts and artichokes with homemade versions of some classics.

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02 September, 2021

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Garden to Glass: Making drinks from leaves

Anistasia Miller and Jared Brown find rich pickings in the foliage of many plants around this time of year.

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03 June, 2021

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Garden to glass: Elderflower wine

Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown have some suggestions for making more of the elderflower season.

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31 March, 2021

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Winter vegetable drinks

Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown find inspiration in an array of winter fruit and veg as they get creative with their festive drinks line-up

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01 December, 2021

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These are the wild winter edibles waiting to be foraged

Winter is not the barren landscape you might think - here just some of the edible wild plants growing in Britain this season that could make their way into your repertoire.

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11 February, 2021

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How to use acid in cocktails

Given how progressive the drinks scene has become, bartenders shouldn’t still default to citrus fruit. Ingredients guru Pritesh Mody says it’s time for the acid test

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04 February, 2020

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How to make damson drinks

Damsons are right in season. Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown show how to employ the plum sub-species in liquid and solid form

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02 September, 2021

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In season this season: autumn ingredients

Don't lament the loss of summer, embrace autumn’s abundance, says Hamish Smith

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02 September, 2021

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Garden to Glass: Dandelion wine

Dandelion wine, house-grown greens and drinkable hand sanitiser – Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown were custom-designed for self-isolation. They talk you through surviving the apocalypse, including what not to give to horny rats.

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10 April, 2020

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How to use sugar (mindfully) in cocktails

Given the results of recent research, it now looks like a good time to seek a healthier understanding of sugar and how it impacts on cocktails. Clair Warner reports

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04 April, 2020

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Knowing your lemons

Hamish Smith gets under the skin of the bartender's favourite citrus fruit

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25 February, 2021