Zak Avery
@zakavery.bsky.social
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Advent Day 11: Few Spirits Bourbon 46.5% dear god I needed a couple of days off. A slightly odd volatile note (nail polish) blows off to reveal a perfectly decent, clean, polished and smooth Bourbon. I bet it would make a bitching Manhattan. Good.
December 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Advent Day 11: Few Spirits Bourbon 46.5% dear god I needed a couple of days off. A slightly odd volatile note (nail polish) blows off to reveal a perfectly decent, clean, polished and smooth Bourbon. I bet it would make a bitching Manhattan. Good.
Advent Day 7 (actually Day 1) St George's Spirits Breaking & Entering. Straight down the line whiskey, bright and clean and fresh, really clean and classy. Honey and nuts? Oh, go on then.
December 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Advent Day 7 (actually Day 1) St George's Spirits Breaking & Entering. Straight down the line whiskey, bright and clean and fresh, really clean and classy. Honey and nuts? Oh, go on then.
Advent Day 6: hang on, didn't I see you a couple of days ago?! Lens-cleaning inadvertent selfie included for lols.
December 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Advent Day 6: hang on, didn't I see you a couple of days ago?! Lens-cleaning inadvertent selfie included for lols.
Maker's Mark Cask Strength, 55%abv, on ice and a dash. Copper gold colour, huge spirit aroma. Some may think it's a hiding to nothing trying to write notes on 24 American whiskies - they're all the same, right? But as John Peel memorably said about The Fall - always the same, but always different
December 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Maker's Mark Cask Strength, 55%abv, on ice and a dash. Copper gold colour, huge spirit aroma. Some may think it's a hiding to nothing trying to write notes on 24 American whiskies - they're all the same, right? But as John Peel memorably said about The Fall - always the same, but always different
Advent Day 4: I've realised this evening that in my pious frenzy to commence Advent, I've drunk day 7 on day 1. The font is quite spindly. Anyone might have made the same mistake. To correct matters, I was momentarily swayed towards drinking day 1 today, but then what would become of day 4?
December 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Advent Day 4: I've realised this evening that in my pious frenzy to commence Advent, I've drunk day 7 on day 1. The font is quite spindly. Anyone might have made the same mistake. To correct matters, I was momentarily swayed towards drinking day 1 today, but then what would become of day 4?
Yeah like actually I'm like really into like new wave boom bap folktronica actually
December 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Yeah like actually I'm like really into like new wave boom bap folktronica actually
Advent Day 3: Westward Single Malt. 45%, on ice. I'm not saying that this is becoming a high point of my day, but I ripped the door off in my eagerness to get this one out. Slightly darker burnished gold colour, much more assertive aroma, oak, tropical fruit?
December 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Advent Day 3: Westward Single Malt. 45%, on ice. I'm not saying that this is becoming a high point of my day, but I ripped the door off in my eagerness to get this one out. Slightly darker burnished gold colour, much more assertive aroma, oak, tropical fruit?
Advent Day 2: Daddy Rack Tennessee Straight Whiskey. 40%abv, on ice. Straightforward whiskey, vanilla oak. Parma violets? Cheeky, slightly raucous. Nice.
December 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Advent Day 2: Daddy Rack Tennessee Straight Whiskey. 40%abv, on ice. Straightforward whiskey, vanilla oak. Parma violets? Cheeky, slightly raucous. Nice.
Advent Day 1: 50%abv, with ice. Smooth oak and vanilla, pear and almond, marzipan? Pretty fiery, but good.
December 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Advent Day 1: 50%abv, with ice. Smooth oak and vanilla, pear and almond, marzipan? Pretty fiery, but good.
The family that welds together... [complete as appropriate]
November 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The family that welds together... [complete as appropriate]
Crikey @paulspencer1973.bsky.social this is even lovelier than I'd hoped! Thank you so much!
November 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Crikey @paulspencer1973.bsky.social this is even lovelier than I'd hoped! Thank you so much!
Finally! Although now I realise that we badly need to decorate....
November 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Finally! Although now I realise that we badly need to decorate....
They started the looms!
November 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
They started the looms!
At Quuen St Mill Museum for a performance with @commonerschoir.bsky.social as part of a much bigger event.
November 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
At Quuen St Mill Museum for a performance with @commonerschoir.bsky.social as part of a much bigger event.
Should anyone be in the market for a slimline 88 key digital piano, hmu. Can probably organise delivery to anywhere in the UK. Bought 2021, very little use.
November 6, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Should anyone be in the market for a slimline 88 key digital piano, hmu. Can probably organise delivery to anywhere in the UK. Bought 2021, very little use.
Christmas tat is on the shelves.
October 31, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Christmas tat is on the shelves.
Honestly, this was me yesterday, and today my brain has just been going "why aren't we eating gildas and drinking vermut?", a good question for which I had no response.
October 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Honestly, this was me yesterday, and today my brain has just been going "why aren't we eating gildas and drinking vermut?", a good question for which I had no response.
So, it's agreed - Tuesday nights will now be about seeing a world class hip hop act in an absurdly small venue. Maybe just once a month though.
October 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
So, it's agreed - Tuesday nights will now be about seeing a world class hip hop act in an absurdly small venue. Maybe just once a month though.
That's some pretty sharp policing, Clouseau.
October 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
That's some pretty sharp policing, Clouseau.
A fog-bound spin along the Aire & Calder Navigation this morning.
October 12, 2025 at 9:29 AM
A fog-bound spin along the Aire & Calder Navigation this morning.