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...

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!

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"

Absolute nonsense in The Guardian on generative AI having feelings, which suggests that no one at The Guardian understands anything about how LLMs work...

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.

Nicely dystopian top three there...

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...

"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...

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...

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.

are you doing your part to generate novel training data today?

Finally a Brexit benefit for the Scotch whisky industry?!

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.

This whole 'spat' has been reported terribly from day one. This is just the latest example...

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/

Ack, he’s not wrong…

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.

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

I reckon he could find a way to come back from that.

Resharing this #bartab post to celebrate the first birthday of #Mayfair’s Scales. menniedrinks.substack.com/p/scales-may...

Agreed. Horrible timing.

This is pretty wild. And a new front opening up in the 2024 copyright wars?!

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.

Well. It’s not coffee. It’s not whisky. But it is tasty. So where does Woven x Assembly fit in?

“Estimated fortune of £55m” - poor guy. His kids will be scrabbling round to pay that IHT bill, won’t they?

Seeing as we’re all new here, a reminder that my Glenfiction whisky tasting notes as short stories are available at menniedrinks.substack.com

This is an excellent magazine. Cannot recommend enough.

Nice. I did the domain name thingy. Do I look 'official' to you now?

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