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The Oxford & Cambridge Goat Race 2011

March 31st, 2011 · No Comments · abelha cachaca, art, london, nature

So, the dust has settled on another Goat Race, and we are happy to announce that about £6300 has been raised for the farm, a huge increase on the £3400 from last year! So thanks to everyone who came, everyone who worked there, especially those who volunteered their time, and to the farm staff.

Exciting new additions this year included the Oxford & Cambridge Stoat Race, food, coffee, beer from Meantime Brewery and cocktails from Abelha Cachaca.

Music from the excellent DJ Pigsnoots, and live freestyle MC’ing from the excellent Voodoo Browne, whose single, Low Budget Raver drops this April.

This year, we had more time to put into making lots more decorations and bits & bobs for the farm which was nice.

Bramble the Golden Guernsey romped home for Cambridge in 57 seconds as Oxford never recovered from stopping at the start of the race to do a poo.

From a personal point of view, I think it’s really important to connect people to city farms – they do an important thing of not letting us forget ultimately what life is about - which is easy to do in cities. So I was happy to see thousands of smiling people walking around the farm, taking it all in. Many will have been to Brick Lane and Shoreditch tens of times and never known about the farm just a street away.

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Abelha Cachaça Retail Launch at Wholefoods Kensington this Saturday

August 27th, 2009 · No Comments · abelha cachaca

Pretty exciting – we (Abelha Cachaca) are working with Whole Foods Market in Kensington as our official retail partner! They will be stocking Abelha Silver and Abelha Gold in their new spirits section, alongside a lot of other excellent, organic spirits.

If you haven’t been to the store before, you should do – it’s huge, and full of delicious stuff, including a machine from which you can blend and dispense your own fresh pistachio nut butter. We are now giving you the perfect excuse to get down there, as this Saturday 29th August, we’ll be down there doing sampling.

We’ll be knocking out caipirinhas, other fresh fruit cocktails and a delicious new serve of Abelha Cachaça mixed with Organic Elderflower Presse, all made with things you can find in the store.

2-6 pm, Saturday 26th August.
Whole Foods Market
www.wholefoodsmarket.com
63 Kensington High St
London, W8
020 7368 4500

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Abelha Cachaça UK – my new 39% ABV baby

November 3rd, 2008 · 4 Comments · abelha cachaca, portfolio

I haven’t had a lot of time to update this blog recently, for a couple of reasons.

1. I’ve been working freelance – just doing half days – which means that I don’t have a lot of extra time sitting in an office, which is the kind of time that you use for blogging, e.g. when you’re waiting for a meeting.

2. I’ve been working on this exciting new project which I can finally reveal. We’ve created and are launching a new brand of cachaça in the UK. For those who don’t know, cachaça is a sugar cane based spirit (a little bit like rum, but not rum) from Brasil. It’s the main ingredient of the world famous Caipirinha cocktail.

Our cachaça – Abelha Cachaça – is very different to most the cachaça’s you find on sale in the UK. It’s produced in the most traditional way using 100% natural ingredients at a farming collective in Bahia, Northern Brasil.

Pretty much everything is done by hand, to create the best possible tasting cachaça – this sometimes means that our process is slower, or less efficient but we think it’s the right thing to do. It’s produced in the same way that cachaça was made 200-odd years ago, and as a result of all this it has an excellent full and natural flavour.

Here’s a slideshow of the production process if you’re interested.

(It also happens to be organic and ethically produced, but I feel a bit preachy going on about it. It’s just booze after all.)

It’s been ages in the works, sorting out all the paperwork and so on, but we finally have the first batch in the country and out of the claws of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.

Right now, we’re working on getting listings (bars, restaurants and shops to stock us), and as soon as we have a good base of them, we’ll be doing lots of exciting consumer marketing. If you have any good contacts (people who manage or own pubs/bars, let me know). Or with any advice generally!

In the meantime, feel free to snoop around our website, check out our cachaça FAQ – don’t laugh, I had to build this thing with my own bare hands! We have a cachaça blog here too, so stop by.

By the way, you can get in touch with me (Anthony) on anthony@abelha.co.uk or 07815 776 215.

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