Henry Jeffreys - The Black & White Striped Unicorn (Part 2)

The Moon Under Water

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🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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*This is part 2 of Henry Jeffreys's episode. Though you are free to listen in whichever order you so desire we really do recommend listening to part 1 first or things might be slightly confusing*

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	Oh, Welcome back to the moon underwater. I am the landlord. John Robbins and to my left, the esteemed regular, The Lovely, the Lovely Robin Allander.
0:40.1	And this week our guest is Boo's author and Master of Malt editor, Henry Jeffreys, whose book, Empire of Booze, tells the story of British history through its importation, exportation, invention, drinking, consumption,
0:57.9	lawmaking, pretty much everything to do with alcohol. And it's been a fascinating read. Also fascinating
1:05.9	to chat to him about his dream pub. So far, we've got Timothy Taylor on draft, Kentish Pip
1:12.7	high diver cider, 4.8%. Also on draft. And in the bottle section, a couple of curveballs,
1:19.9	Campari and Martini Rosso for the construction of a Nogroni in memory of Uncle Peter.
1:26.6	And it's an old Victorian gin palace or country pub,
1:30.7	which doesn't need too much food, it doesn't need cocktails, it doesn't need a wine list,
1:35.3	but it does need a fire and some dogs.
1:39.0	Before we continue to kit it out, we must return to the Moon Underwater Pub Quiz,
1:43.8	which we have, I'm afraid to say,
1:46.8	predicted to be a low scoring round. Well, let's see how we did. This week's Moon Underwater Pub quiz
1:52.2	was about nicknames for English football teams. And question one, which team currently languishing
1:57.3	in the National League North are nicknamed the Quakers, Henry, what do you think?
2:02.6	I have no idea. I mean, I was just trying to think of what part of the country is, you know,
2:08.6	where are there lots of Quakers? And I was thinking, you know, the kind of the Cadbury's and the,
2:13.9	you know, the round trees, you know, all those chocolate people. They were all Quakers, weren't they? But then
2:19.1	Birmingham and places like that, they're all in a bit higher up in the leagues, aren't they?
2:24.4	So it was in one of the kind of lower leagues from the north, wasn't it? Oh, I haven't got a clue,
2:32.8	I'm afraid. Sorry. John john i've just had a little thought
2:37.6	it's just dropped into my head i wonder if there might be a little allander connection to this one
2:42.9	there is i'm afraid oh well it's on fair advantage yeah but i only just thought that uh is it darlington
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