Kokova Magazine

Move over mulled wine, it's all about warming beer cocktails as the winter nights draw in. Braconnier and Sloe Poach are two winter cocktails created by mixology legend Nick Strangeway for Badger ales. Although historically inspired, both cocktails have been given a modern twist through the use of beer mixed with contemporary spirits and flavourings. The cocktails have been created to appeal to current beer drinkers and to open up the world of beer to people who have yet to discover it.

To celebrate the last day of summer and in support of the Soil Association's Keep Britain Buzzing campaign, Le Pain Quotidien will be giving away free cups of organic coffee on the morning of 23rd September, the last day of summer. The free coffee will be available around different Le Pain Quotidien restaurants across London.

Congratulations to our winners: Debbie Stavert (Cumbria) and Nancy Jarvis (London).

Once again we have been out and about looking for new companies and products to share with our readers and at this year's Speciality & Fine Foods Fair we found a number of gems we felt were so good we just had to mention them. Oats you can drink, the softest of mallow, British cassis and fruit infused spirits - if you are looking for some tasty treats then you have come to the right place.

Wallace & Gromit are whipping up a frenzy from the 2nd - 8th December 2013 - calling on the nation to roll out your rolling pins, whip out your whisk and preheat your ovens to help raise some 'dough' for kids in hospitals and hospices across the UK. Whether you bake cupcakes or cheesecakes, pies or pastries, brownies or bloomers, or your own unique showstopper now is the time to rise to the occasion.

Morgans Hotel Group have announced the debut of Henry, a cocktail bar and lounge featuring an inventive and experimental mixology program at Hudson. Located just off the hotel's lobby in midtown, Henry draws inspiration from the legendary explorer Henry Hudson and his boundless spirit of adventure. Spanning a wide variety of liquors, the cocktail menu was ingeniously crafted by the bar's creative director and world-renowned mixologist Ryan Chetiyawardana, a two-time UK bartender of the year who's best known throughout London as the "Heston Blumenthal of cocktailing."