For most people The UK RumFest is the ultimate rum experience - for rum drinkers, rum aficionados and rum lovers to sample the music, the food, the partying and people associated with drinking rum. But this year was it more party than appreciation - and does the serious side of rum still have a place within the carnival atmosphere that was RumFest 2012...
When we were invited to attend Choc Tales, a pairing of chocolates and cocktails, we didn’t need much persuading to visit Dean Street for this première event, in celebration of Chocolate Week. And with Cocktail Week claiming the same calendar dates Choc Tales is the perfect way to honour both events.
The Whisky Exchange Whisky Show is the UK's finest whisky tasting event, bringing distillers and whisky lovers from all over the world together in London for a truly luxurious food and whisky experience. We popped into the show on Sunday 7th October to find out for ourselves just what this event holds for whisky lovers - and if it has anything to offer those who don't.
Last month Vax launched the Air3 range of light, full-sized, multi-cyclonic upright vacuum cleaners and for the last 10 days we have been testing the Vax Air3 Pet, to see if it really is a revolution in cleaning. We took a selection of testers, ranging from young adults to senior citizens, and put the Air3 Pet to task on a variety of floors and pet hairs, with some surprising results.
In our search for the best free-from bread we finally located a loaf of 'Yes! You Can' in a local supermarket. So it was with some excitement that we bought it to taste test - to see if it really does mean that 'Yes! We Can'. Advertised as 'Gluten free... and Tasty' our first impressions were very good as we took possession of a 'larger than most' sized loaf, that felt soft to touch. But what about the contents...
London's ExCeL Exhibition Centre, will host RumFest for the first time on Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th October, providing the location for an unrivalled combination of the rarest and most delicious rums from across the globe. We were very pleased that the sun decided to join us as the Your Source Today (YST) team travelled up to Festival Pier, on the River Thames, to take part in Rum on the River; the launch party for RumFest 2012.
