Gary Law

2 months ago | belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Gary Law

There are plenty of creative cocktails you could make using the humble eggEaster is one of those times of year when, for some unaccountable reason, we all go a little bit pun crazy. You know what I mean — Halloween is always ‘spooktacular’ and Easter never fails to be anything less than ‘eggs-citing’.

2 months ago | belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Gary Law

Brothers-in-law Brian Ash and Jim Nash were chatting at the kitchen table one evening, mulling over ideas for a joint enterprise they could both get their teeth into. They talked about burger vans, and something to do with salt, but nothing seemed to excite them. “Then we looked at the drinks in our hands and thought, ‘Why don’t we make this?’” Brian recalls. “How hard can it be?”“Actually,” he says ruefully.

Mar 27, 2025 | belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Gary Law

Throughout the novel, champagne, whiskey, beer, wine and gin are splashed into glasses with reckless abandon. Exactly 100 years ago, the presses were rolling for the printing of a book that would come to epitomise the Jazz Age, that brief decade of shallow hedonism between the world wars when, for the rich at least, life was filled with cocktails and the Charleston, shiny roadsters and lavish parties. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is one of the classics of 20th century American literature.

Mar 20, 2025 | belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Gary Law

The peculiar thing about most ginger beers is that they’re not beers at all. Largely they’re just carbonated soft drinks that have more in common with that fine old Belfast invention, ginger ale, than anything that flows from a beer tap. But when the drink is actually brewed like a proper beer, by people who really know what they’re doing, well that’s the kind of ginger beer which begs further investigation.

Mar 13, 2025 | belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Gary Law

From Co Down to Canberra, Mary McAvoy and her husband David Faulks have gone from wine novices into award winners. It’s 9pm on a Sunday and it’s dark outside. But at the other end of the video call I’m making, a new working week has already begun. It’s 8am on Monday there, the birds are singing, the sun is up, and the temperature is climbing steadily towards 30 degrees. It’s harvest time at the Tallagandra Hill vineyard in Australia, and things are pretty hectic.