Drinks & Destinations brings to you a boozy guide with some popular brands and emerging drinks trends that you must watch out for in 2020. White spirits category in India will remain a favourite amongst the bartending community even in 2020. Gin has received a fresh infusion of excitement with some home grown brands. While... Continue Reading →
The Drinks & Destinations Podcast.Ep 11: Holiday Season Special with Aneesh & Nikhil
Listen to the episode here. The party season has just begun. It's also the time of the year when we look back at the trends that made headlines. In the first holiday season special episode of the drinks and destinations podcast hosts, Rojita and Sameera discuss some of the major Christmas and New Year... Continue Reading →
Canadian Luxury Lifestyle Beer Brand 1793 KROY To Enter India
Here's a good news for beer fans. India’s connection with Canada is about to get stronger with the scheduled entry of one of its finest beer brands called 1793 KROY into the Indian market by mid-2016. The winning premium beer brand from Canada is all set to expand to 32 countries this year and Mumbai... Continue Reading →
Indian Craft Beers Find Place at #MakeInIndiaWeek
The six-day long Make In India event starting February 13 will be marked as India's first ever global event to encourage the local manufacturing industry. The 10 sectors invited to be a part of this initiative are aerospace and defence, automobile, construction, food processing, infrastructure, pharmaceuticals, information technology and textiles. Many “micro” businesses including... Continue Reading →
Gateway Brewing Co.’s Nitro ‘Kaapi’ Stout
The craft beer producer and supplier Gateway Brewing Company has just introduced a new Nitro stout called 'Kaapi' in the Mumbai market to celebrate its 2nd anniversary. 'Kaapi' a reference to the drink 'coffee' is truly a tribute to the coffee fans. Made from ingredients, 100% sourced from India, including the Blue Tokai Coffee which... Continue Reading →
The Week That Was
It was an exciting busy week full of dinners, launches and tasting events. From meeting with the Kumala Wines Winemaker to the launch of a new craft beer by Gateway Brewing Company called A1 to the launch of the German wine brand Weingut Heinz Pfaffmann, an exclusive dinner with Sula's winemaker Kerry Damskey and owner... Continue Reading →
Aqaba With WOW Tables Celebrates Craft Beer Festival
It is exciting times for the craft beer industry as more and more beer drinkers are opting to drink freshly brewed local affordable beers and not the expensive imported ones. Thanks to a handful of craft beer producers and some forward thinking resto-bars and pubs in Mumbai, it has now become easy to grab a... Continue Reading →
What The Wine Industry Can Learn From The Craft Brewers
In the last quarter of 2014 there were two interesting events that took place in Mumbai. The first Craft Beer Festival called TAPPED (on 2nd November, Wodehouse Gymkhana, Mumbai) and the 5th Bandra Wine Festival (on 15-16 November, D’Monte Park, Bandra, Mumbai). Both were consumer centric events organised with the sole purpose of popularizing drinking... Continue Reading →