Little Brown Dog

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Founded in Aberdeen in 2018 by Andrew Smith and Chris Reid, the company name references Smith’s pet, Banksy, and their activities include making unusual small batch gins and bottling rum, cognac and calvados as well as single malt, blended malt, single grain whiskies and American whiskey. The local people of Battersea, meanwhile, had grown rather attached to their canine friend and were determined that no harm should come to it.

To create unique spirit, Andrew took his silky, rich, Aberdeenshire Foraged Gin, and matured it for 7 months in a sweet vermouth cask. Paula Owen looks afresh to tell this story through the eyes of two thoroughly modern Edwardian young women of very different means and backgrounds, imagined protagonists in a retelling of what pitted the Londoner against Londoner whatever their background or gender. Paula owens new novel is a must read for anyone interested in the history of animal welfare, or indeed the lesser known stories about the development, and rifts within the suffrage movement in the early twentieth century. However couldn’t help noticing the way that some phrases are over-used (like the “light beam from the lighthouse” metaphor used to describe how somebody looks across a scene ) and this really niggled.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Originally released as LBD Gin before the packaging was amended and the recipe was slightly tweaked, Aberdeenshire Foraged Gin is the signature Scottish Gin from Little Brown Dog Spirits. Using the scan yer dram QR code on our bottles of Aberdeenshire Foraged Gin, we'll venture out onto the farm and into the woods to visit the exact locations of each of the grown and foraged ingredients in that specific bottle. In her other life, Paula has a doctorate from Oxford University in atmospheric science and - when not writing - spends her days campaigning, speaking and banging on about climate change and sustainable living to anyone who will listen. Its incredible this true, but tragic tale of the little brown dog of Battersea has faded from the history books, but this striking slightly fictionalised retelling by Owen will rectify this.

Punch-ups and demonstrations between the two warring factions - the young ‘gentlemen’ from University College and the working class youth of Battersea - were a regular occurrence. A barrister by profession, Coleridge came from a distinguished family, which had connections with many influential people. A further appeal was made to raise money for the monument, largely organised through the efforts of Miss Woodward, founder of the World League against Vivisection and Honorary Secretary of the International Anti-Vivisection Council, the society which presented the memorial to Battersea.

Stephen Coleridge, who took up the appointment of Honorary Secretary in 1897 (remaining until 1936) came from a family of committed anti-vivisectionists; his father had been one of NAVS’ vice-presidents and Stephen had not been converted to, but born into the cause. The timing is perfect to have another look at how a simple crowdfunded statue raised as a memorial to a little brown dog, sited in a backstreet of impoverished south London, so enraged and triggered the wealthy and educated classes far away in the centre of a large city entering a new Edwardian era. An infamous court case, class warfare, a statue that incites an insurrection, and riots in London streets follow. Her first, Decommissioning the Brent Spar, was released over twenty years ago, and is the key source reference material for a forthcoming TV drama series.

Two Swedish anti-vivisectionists, Leisa Schartau and Louise Lind-af-Hageby, who had enrolled as students at the London School of Medicine for Women so that they could learn first-hand about the work in such laboratories, attended that lecture demonstration.Transparent production methods and a commitment to sharing how they make the tasty things in as detailed a way as possible. Based on Chris’s farm they combine a passion for their surrounding area with in-depth knowledge (read intense geekery) of distilling and cask maturation.