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Produced by: Unicorn Brewery, Type: Porter, ABV: 6% Do you go coo coo for Cocoa Puffs? Do you like dark, spicy, and delicious beer? Then this porter is for you. As a fan of darker brews, this porter brewed at the unicorn brewery lives up …
Produced by: Hiver Beers, Type: Blonde, ABV: 4.5% This beer is delicious. The honey flavour comes through in spades without overpowering the mellow blonde base. The imbiber is transported to a country meadow to mingle with the majestic British honey bee and their urban cousins. …
St. Patrick’s Day was always a family day in the Cold Brew Kombucha house growing up. We didn’t do anything fancy or have a big party, like with many other holidays. Instead we kept it simple, and stuck to our own family traditions. Mom would make a version of a New England boil; corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, and sometimes carrots, and we would help make some soda bread. Then we would eat dinner while watching the classic John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara film, The Quiet Man. We finish the evening with Baileys Irish Cream liquor (when we were old enough) and my parent’s would have a bit of Irish whiskey. All in all, a pretty American version of St. Patrick’s Day celebration.
After moving away to London, I have been sure to keep up the tradition with Heritage Avocado Toast and this year Retro Denim Jacket will be joining us. We get a salt beef from the local butcher because they have never let us down with their quality. I also make my own soda bread, after all it is super simple, my parents always used the Joy of Cooking recipe, and I haven’t deviated from it. After all, as we always said growing up, if it ain’t Baroque… (don’t fix it)
This year the only change to tradition in the Hipster Home will be Continue reading St. Patrick’s Day Drink Review
The full Hipster team went for an outing. To avoid the Sunday scaries, we ventured forth to find a cozy haven. Unfortunately London weather was not cooperating and we stumbled out into a torrential downpour. With our mission of experiencing a fresh atmosphere firmly in …
Bacon or sausage? The breakfast meat debate is strong in the Hipster House. Retro Denim Jacket (RDJ) and Heritage Avocado Toast (HAT) prefer sausage, with RDJ not liking bacon at all. I, Cold Brew Kombucha (CBK), on the other hand prefer bacon, and am very …
Tomorrow, Thursday 7 March, a new exhibition will be opening at the National Portrait Gallery that you should be adding to your calendar. Displaying both well known, and previously unseen works by Martin Parr, Only Human: Martin Parr is a riot of colour and activity. From scarves and bags to wooden fotoescultura figures displaying Parr’s face, this collection of works runs the gamut. There’s even deckchairs in the Beach room and a mirror ball in the Dance room. Aside from the wall of his famous Autoportraits, the main focus of the exhibition is the colourful and multicultural look at British culture. Rooms dedicated to tennis, horse racing, beaches, celebrities, and party culture show the Great British public living out their lives in a manner that is at points jarring and grotesque while simultaneously fascinating and beautiful.
“If there is any jarring at all in my photographs, it’s because we are so used to ingesting pictures of everywhere looking beautiful.”
Martin Parr
“The motifs he chooses are strange, the colours are garish and the perspectives are unusual.”
Thomas Weski, MartinParr.com
The National Portrait Gallery has set these works against a background of bright coloured walls, textured floors, and vinyl printouts that draw you into Parr’s strange and compelling world. You can’t help but be enthralled by the figures in the works and it brings on a sort of giddy effect that has you posing and laughing along with his subjects. You find yourself recognising yourself and the people in your life in the faces and scenes set out before you, making his work accessible to even the most sceptical of museum visitors.
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Pancake Day is this week, Tuesday 5 March. If you are looking for something a little different this year, we have a great suggestion. We tested out the the Dr. Oetker Nona Pandan Pancake mix, which we picked up in Chinatown. We love pandan, if …