No list of Scottish drinking heroes could be complete without the man who gives his name and spirit to Scotland’s national drinking party.

Hot Rum Cow’s Editor at Large brews up a batch of medieval beer

What has 400 breasts, is rife with debauched rabbits and smells of revolution? The story of pulque.

Mabinogion is plotting a mead renaissance inspired by a psychedelic past

Hot Rum Cow opens up a compendium of historic drinking games

A forgotten libation, brought back to the world once more

Up your toasting game with our history of the tradition

Join us in the Hot Rum Time Machine and travel back to the origins of good drinking. Expect monks, mead and magic.

A trip into the sweat-sodden, steam-filled, blue-collar world of the Boilermaker

The entire story of one nation, one people, one land and one blood, told through six cocktails

The survival of the smallest: a history of the alcoholic miniature

Here’s to the union of mould and booze in all its fetid, rotten glory