Henry Jeffreys - The Black & White Striped Unicorn (Part 1)

The Moon Under Water

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🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Is there a better feeling than settling in at your favourite watering hole, drink in hand, and a good book to keep you company? Probably not, but one thing is for certain: if you were to be reading a copy of Empire of Booze by Henry Jeffreys you'd probably be sitting there until the book is finished (which probably means you'd finish a good few pints too). It's an absolute page-turner, and a book that anyone intrigued by the history and alcohol should have in their own personal library. Now if only we could talk to the author himself to pick his brain... Oh look! Can you believe it? Heading towards The Moon Under Water is the actual Henry Jeffreys!

Henry is a drinks expert and author whose work has appeared in the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, BBC Good Food and Master of Malt amongst others. He started out writing a blog about alcohol before moving onto books and his works have been celebrated by people far and wide. Expect a thorough, well informed pub to appear from his mind!

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0:00.0	Cast now against the pointed light, the lilac clouds in the fore dusk,
0:11.0	irregular triangular triangular-trivaled roofs, pure black silhouettes against the sky,
0:19.0	all gazed through glass in the moon underwater.
0:23.6	The moon underwater. I, John Robbins, am your landlord, and with me,
0:58.6	and he's got such a grin on his face, is the lovely Robin Allander. And Robin, I'm guessing you're
1:04.4	grin at the sight of the fleet outside. I love having a good grin anyway, but it is a particularly
1:09.7	mighty fleet. Yeah, if you can imagine, well, but it is a particularly mighty fleet.
1:20.0	Yeah, if you can imagine, well, you know, a Spanish galleon or the English equivalent, the name of which I've, you know, no idea what it would be.
1:20.8	Boat?
1:22.3	Yes, an English boat.
1:26.7	And they're all coming up the high street here, sort of hovering over the cobbles.
1:30.6	And it's always a treat for the townsfolk to welcome in the fleet.
1:34.3	But I tell you what, the fleet don't arrive for everyone.
1:41.1	It's an awful lot of logistical bother to sort of get the fleet avast and, you know, everything pointing to the foreswain getting all of the bowsmen
1:47.7	aboard and abound so i can only guess that it's in honor of this week's guest of the moon underwater
1:55.2	who we're going to help create their dream pub and it's a bit like you know those sort of um float parades in new york
2:03.1	or in america that they have with lots of different floats it's a bit like that a floating fleet
2:07.4	a floating fleet but if it is our guest then we should be expecting i believe it's a schooner
2:12.9	any time soon or some sort of clipper ship to come on the on the on the flow oh they're
2:19.8	cheering now robin they're cheering the flags are going bananas and here it is it's full
2:25.3	fathom five and twenty knots abound the hearthman's knot for this week's guest who jumps off with a lovely spring in his step
2:40.3	and comes through the huddled masses to enter the moon underwater it's henry jeffreys hello henry
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