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Alex Mennie

@menniedrinks.com
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He / Him. 🥃✍🏻 Whisky and cocktail writer 🤖⚖️ Digital marketing lawyer ⛵️📸 Sometime sailor and film photographer menniedrinks.substack.com

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Canada should rename Lake Michigan after Chicago's greatest son, and call it Lake Obama
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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · 23/07/2026
Yep, sure is tough in the old brewing world these days. Still, good job we don't also have to compete with multi multi millionaire celebrities who could swim in a pool of their money like Scrooge McDuck launching beer brands just because they can.
Jeremy Clarkson being a twat
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
It didn't "go rogue". It did what it was instructed to do. In a sophisticated way but nonetheless we have to stop assigning human agency to AI systems. Everything that happened here was as a result of human designed and instructed systems.
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Alex Mennie @menniedrinks.com · 15/04/2026
Launched two new Mennie Drinks print publications at the Food in Print Magazine Fair at The Barbican on Saturday. Both products - Four Corners in the Marais - a Bar Tab zine; and Jinking the Gaugers - short stories inspired by whisky tasting notes; are available at menniedrinks.com/shop
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Shop | Mennie Drinks
Products Archive | Mennie Drinks
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Alex Mennie @menniedrinks.com · 15/12/2025
#Gift #shopping for the #whisky lover that has all the bottes? How about my chapbook of whisky tasting notes as short fiction? The Scotsman has called it 'an ideal gift'. 68 of 100 copies left. menniedrinks.com/product/the-night-afore/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dec_promo"
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The Night Afore - Glenfiction Christmas Chapbook - Mennie Drinks
A winter whisky chapbook from Glenfiction: literary short stories inspired by single malt tasting notes, folklore and the Christmas season
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Alex Mennie @menniedrinks.com · 19/09/2025
The first Bar Tab zine is here. Three Bars & A Pool Table. Monty's | Satan's Whiskers | All My Gods. Fifty numbered copies. Once they're gone, they're gone. menniedrinks.bigcartel.com/product/thre...
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Three Bars & A Pool Table Zine
The first Bar Tab Mini — a zine about where we drink and the people we meet there. Featuring three London institutions (Monty’s, Satan’s Whiskers,...
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Alex Mennie @menniedrinks.com · 18/09/2025
My first Bar Tab zine - Three Bars & A Pool Table - is released tomorrow. It's a literary-led look at three 'dive adjacent' bars in London, and the first in a series looking at where we drink and the people we meet there. Visit menniedrinks.substack.com to learn more!
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Mennie Drinks | Substack
A slow publishing platform dedicated to the stories, spaces, and people that shape global drinking culture. Offering a literary, narrative-led take on bars, whisky and cocktails for those who prioriti...
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Snackcube @snackcube.co.uk · 26/08/2025
Shameful that you have published this glaze for the LLM industry. AI doesn't exist, and the products that have been branded as such are little more than clever parlour tricks. Can my graphics card feel pain? Does my printer yearn for the steppes? No. Stop being fatuous and stop gassing up "AI"
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Alex Mennie @menniedrinks.com · 26/08/2025
Absolute nonsense in The Guardian on generative AI having feelings, which suggests that no one at The Guardian understands anything about how LLMs work...
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Good news everyone, they’ve finally built a machine to make good writing bad for you. You need never be moved, startled, challenged or changed by prose emanating from the human imagination ever again.
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Alex Mennie @menniedrinks.com · 22/04/2025
Nicely dystopian top three there...
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Alex Mennie @menniedrinks.com · 14/04/2025
Another example to file under 'why can't AI just do more of the boring stuff that keeps me from connecting with my relatives rather than...' www.404media.co/i-tested-the...
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I Tested The AI That Calls Your Elderly Parents If You Can't Be Bothered
inTouch says on its website "Busy life? You can’t call your parent every day—but we can." My own mum said she would feel terrible if her child used it.
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Alex Mennie @menniedrinks.com · 07/04/2025
"Humans discovered fermentation and started making alcohol...sometime between 8,000 and 12,000 years ago. Several thousand years later, the first civic governments were formed. The first efforts at restricting alcohol consumption probably followed not long after." reason.com/2025/04/05/t...
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The new prohibitionists are hijacking federal dietary guidelines
The campaign to make America dry is as dubious as the campaign for the food pyramid.
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Felipe Schrieberg @schriebergfr.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Hopefully the BBC specials on whisky scammers will lead to meaningful change in the industry. If you want to understand how they work and do their dirty business I wrote about it here on Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/felipe...
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Is This The Beginning Of The End For Whisky Cask Scammers?
A story from the BBC reveals how Scotch whisky cask investment scammers do their dirty business. It also marks the first time victims have come forward to warn others.
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Alex Mennie @menniedrinks.com · 17/03/2025
Hi @shannonvallor.bsky.social - very interesting to hear from you at the Edinburgh University event this evening and delighted to find out I was already following you here! Must have been an AI/tech/Edinburgh starter pack. I look forward to hearing about more of your work.
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bergmayer @bergmayer.net · 17/03/2025
are you doing your part to generate novel training data today?
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Alex Mennie @menniedrinks.com · 14/03/2025
Finally a Brexit benefit for the Scotch whisky industry?!
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Alex Mennie @menniedrinks.com · 12/03/2025
Oh thank goodness. Now I can concentrate on being a good value-creating node and leave an AI tool to all my creating, dreaming and reflecting on the human experience. About time.
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Alex Mennie @menniedrinks.com · 04/03/2025
This whole 'spat' has been reported terribly from day one. This is just the latest example...
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Bennett Institute for Public Policy @bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk · 20/02/2025
New report published today says the unregulated use of Generative AI in the UK economy will not necessarily lead to economic growth & risks damaging the UK's creative sector. www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/ai-ip/
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Alex Mennie @menniedrinks.com · 17/12/2024
Ack, he’s not wrong…
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Felipe Schrieberg @schriebergfr.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
When you're on the same judging table as two of the best master blenders of the whisky industry, you better keep up! Claire, @menniedrinks.com and I did our best to match the expert noses and palates of the superb Craig Wallace and Maureen Robinson.
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Alex Mennie @menniedrinks.com · 01/12/2024
Ok. It’s time. A host of festive recipes created, or at least collated, by yours truly are available at: Christmas.foxandbeagle.com. You’re welcome. #christmas #cocktails #party #christmasisforcocktails
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Christmas with Fox & Beagle – Fox & Beagle
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Alex Mennie @menniedrinks.com · 30/11/2024
I reckon he could find a way to come back from that.
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Alex Mennie @menniedrinks.com · 27/11/2024
Resharing this #bartab post to celebrate the first birthday of #Mayfair’s Scales. menniedrinks.substack.com/p/scales-may...
Bartender peels a citrus fruit to make a garnish for a cocktail. Text overlay says “Scales, Mayfair, London: “we gotta taste the goat.””
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Alex Mennie @menniedrinks.com · 27/11/2024
Agreed. Horrible timing.
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Alex Mennie @menniedrinks.com · 26/11/2024
This is pretty wild. And a new front opening up in the 2024 copyright wars?!
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Alex Mennie @menniedrinks.com · 26/11/2024
Surprised it’s only 6/10 that do no fact checking. Although I suppose it’s highly likely it’s a bias of self-reporting.
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Alex Mennie @menniedrinks.com · 21/11/2024
Well. It’s not coffee. It’s not whisky. But it is tasty. So where does Woven x Assembly fit in?
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Alex Mennie @menniedrinks.com · 19/11/2024
“Estimated fortune of £55m” - poor guy. His kids will be scrabbling round to pay that IHT bill, won’t they?
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Alex Mennie @menniedrinks.com · 17/11/2024
Seeing as we’re all new here, a reminder that my Glenfiction whisky tasting notes as short stories are available at menniedrinks.substack.com
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Mennie Drinks | Substack
Cocktail culture, whisky tasting notes and flash fiction. Click to read Mennie Drinks, a Substack publication. Launched 5 months ago.
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Alex Mennie @menniedrinks.com · 17/11/2024
This is an excellent magazine. Cannot recommend enough.
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Alex Mennie @menniedrinks.com · 14/11/2024
Nice. I did the domain name thingy. Do I look 'official' to you now?
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Alex Mennie @menniedrinks.com · 14/11/2024
Another month, another social media platform… I’m Alex Mennie. I write about whisky and cocktails (and whisky cocktails). I also advise drinks brands on legal compliance in the digital world. 🤖🍸 Bar reviews & short stories: menniedrinks.substack.com Features: www.menniedrinks.com
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