Your perfect 'Maycation'!
Summer is almost but not quite here. There's more energy (and sunshine) in the air, things are starting to feel a little more relaxed, there's more of an outdoors buzz. Think of May as your door to summer. A month where you can toast goodbye to the winter chill and begin to ease yourself back into lighter evenings, al fresco dining and the welcome adults-only treat of refreshi ...
Gin Cocktails for Spring
As Winter turns to Spring we're whetting your taste buds with our top five gin infused S pring cocktail recipes to recreate at home, enjoy! 1. Caorunn Apple Three Way Recipe What you need: 50ml Caorunn Gin 10ml bitter cider reduction (Reduce 500ml cider with 5ml Angostura and 10ml Peychaud on a medium hob for mins, take off heat, add skin of 3 Pink Lady ® apples, c ...
Making Memories for Mother's Day
If you’re thinking about making a gift for Mother’s Day, your creative juices are probably running up against the huge mental block that is the image of a crepe paper flower with a pipe cleaner stem that got slightly squished in your schoolbag when you were seven. And, we bet your mum still has it in a shoebox with some of the other little creations you ran home from school wi ...
Recipe for Caorunn Gin & Apple Cupcakes with Caramel Frosting
In less than 30 minutes you could be indulging in a cupcake bursting with sweet chunks of apple, luxurious caramel frosting and an aromatic kick of your favourite gin - how's that sound for a strictly adults only treat? Gin and Apple Cupcakes Recipe (makes 12) Ingredients: 3 eggs 125ml sunflower oil 125g light brown sugar 110g plain flour 1/2 tsp baking powder Pinch ...
Say it with flavour this Valentine’s Day
As part of our #CaorunnLoveProject, we partnered with Claire Justine to create a recipe that's perfect for enjoying among good company. Sharing is caring after all.
The Love Project
There is nothing that will polarise an audience more quickly than the following two words – Valentine’s Day. In one camp we have the dreamy anticipators, romantics and ever hopefuls. In the other camp we have the cynics, the heartbroken, the romantically reluctant and the love haters. And…just to put the magnifying glass over all of that, it’s not just about being in a wonde ...
Burns Night with a Twist
We often wonder what a modern day Robert Burns would be like. A man whose spirit and heartfelt eloquence, poems and prose made him the true ‘People’s Poet’; perhaps he would be exactly that, a modern day poet or maybe he’d be a copywriter, an ad man, a lyricist, a rock star, a politician, a campaigner, a journalist. A man whose extraordinary talent and creativity was matched b ...
Unveiling our new look Caorunn bottle
It’s often easy to take the evolution of design and style for granted; in many ways, it just kind of happens in the background, slowly filtering out and influencing the way things look in such a subtle way and over the course of many years, something ends up looking rather different to what it did in the past. It’s life. It’s evolution. It’s education. It’s changing with th ...
Making 2018 your best
The creep up to the new year is, in our books, perhaps one of the most exciting times of year. It’s a bit like a ‘life’ equivalent of packing your suitcases for your holidays. You know roughly what it’s going to be like when you get there but you just need to get everything in order to take with you. It’s the ultimate ‘lose it or use it’ time of year (and we don’t just mean ...
It’s what’s inside that counts…(or is it?)
Hmm – we’re a bit torn on this one. Literally like the paper on a huge present on Christmas Day! The thing is, a present should be gratefully received whatever it is, whether it was on your list of ‘must haves’ or your mental list of ‘please don’t ever buy that for me’. You must, whatever the occasion, turn on the dazzling lights of your beaming smile and say “I love it – t ...