Around the World in 80 Drinks

The first installment, and where the whole "80 Drinks" idea began. A tongue-in-cheek tour of drinking in Poland, including our defence of vodka as a food group (as long as it's in Jell-O).

Five minutes after landing in Europe, the "not peasanting" begins at Bubbles Seafood Wine Bar in Departure Lounge 4 at Schiphol. A champagne stop between a nine-hour flight from Seattle and our connection to Milan.

A break from all things Europe to visit coffee country in Colombia. We tour Hacienda Guayabal near Manizales and graduate from a very official (tourist-only) coffee university.

A morning at a proper Italian cafe near our hotel in Milan: standing at the marble bar, ordering pastries and cappuccino in shaky Italian, and learning the no-nonsense local etiquette before a day trip to Turin.

A self-declared "beer guy" and supertaster takes on Belgium's famous brews. It's a tale of far too much Belgian beer.

Our first mug of mulled wine after a long drought, on Christmas Eve morning in Stuttgart after an overnight journey from Milan via Munich. A nostalgic look at drinking Glögg in Germany.

Our contribution to the This Is My Canada blogger relay, and an unofficial 80 Drinks installment. It starts with the ultimate Canadian cocktail, the Caesar, which was invented in Calgary in 1969.

Ask us what the best part of Mexico is and the answer is tequila (sorry, tacos). We explore this important part of Mexican culture, salt and all.

A whisky lesson from the barman at the Last Drop Tavern, a pub on Edinburgh's Grassmarket with a grisly past. This edition comes with a video.

We expected Scotland to be all whisky and were wrong: Edinburgh turns out to be a great beer city too. A video edition featuring a flight of six cask ales.