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January 11, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 98 – Yvonne Lorkin

Welcome to episode 98 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This one is a conversation with Yvonne Lorkin, she’s a Hawke’s Bay-based wine-writer, taster, judge, critic and enthusiast. She’s also behind WineFriend, a subscription service that lets you present preferences allowing Sweetman Podcast: Episode 98 – Yvonne Lorkin to hand-select the […]

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August 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Beer With Me: The Ongoing Disaster of Drinking Being Matched With Gigs

Beer and music – we’re told, so often, they go together. The craft beer fellas have all aligned themselves with music, sponsoring gigs, even naming beers after bands. And anyone with a rock’n’roll story of a gig from 20 or 30 years ago often adds in some yarn about being boozed, sozzled, tipsy…or if they […]

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June 18, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 167 Alcohol

Being a teenager in Hamilton in the seventies involved quite a bit of drinking. There wasn’t a lot to do and it seemed like one of the ways to get out at the time though it was really only a path further into itself.